tailieunhanh - Ebook Alphabets and other writing systems

nội dung cuốn sách "Alphabets and other writing systems" dưới đây để có thêm tài liệu tham khảo trong quá trình dạy tiếng Anh cho trẻ, với những hình ảnh ví vụ minh họa cụ thể giúp các bé dễ dàng tiếp thu, với các bậc phụ huynh có bé mới bắt đầu học tiếng Anh thì đây là tài liệu tham khảo hữu ích. | E t L Reader Alphabets and Other Writing Systems by . Michele McFadden Illustrated by Perek Ring Genre Build Background Access Content Extend Language Expository Nonfiction Origins of Writing Language Civilization Graphic Aids Captions Definitions Fact Box Greek and Latin Roots Verb Form -ing Scott Foresman Reading street PEARSON Scott Fbresman Alphabets and Other Writing Systems by s. Michele McFadden Illustrated by Perek Ring PEARSON Scott Fbresman Editorial Offices Glenview Illinois Parsippany New Jersey New York New York Sales Offices Needham Massachusetts Duluth Georgia Glenview Illinois Coppell Texas Sacramento California Mesa Arizona Today most people all over the world know how to write. They can put ideas on paper or in e-mails by writing. In English Spanish Hmong and many other languages people use letters numbers and punctuation to write. But people have not always used this system to write. Pictographs The first people who wrote did not use letters words and punctuation. Thousands of years ago they wrote by making pictures that now are called pictographs. Experts say that these pictographs gave information to other people. punctuation marks used by writers such as a period . comma and question mark system organized way of doing things 2 How do we know about pictographs Some were drawn on the walls of caves and they are still there today. We do not know who wrote the ideas by using pictographs. We do not know how their language sounded. We do know that people in different parts of the world made pictographs. Long long ago they wrote with pictures. These pictures have been found in modern times when ancient pots shells and other things are found under ground. Extend Language Greek and Latin Roots The word pictograph is easy to understand if you know its two roots pict and graph. Pictograph means a sign used in picture writing. The root pict comes from a Latin word for picture. Look at the chart below to find the meaning of graph. .