Count Your Way through Afghanistan

From the Series Count Your Way

  • Interest Level: Grade 2 - Grade 5
  • Reading Level: Grade 3

Count your way from one (yao) to ten (lahs) in Pashto! Using simple text, authors Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson introduce readers to the Afghan culture. Learn about everything from Afghanistan’s one blue mosque to ten kites flying in the sky over Kabul. Colorful illustrations bring modern Afghanistan to life.

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978-0-8225-7186-5
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Interest Level Grade 2 - Grade 5
Reading Level Grade 3
Genre Social Studies
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Millbrook Press ™
Language English
Publication Date 2006-08-01
Text Type Informational/Explanatory
BISACS JNF038080, JNF013030
Dewey 958.1
Graphics Full-color illustrations
Guided Reading Level P
ATOS Reading Level 3.4
Accelerated Reader® Quiz 106899
Accelerated Reader® Points 0.5
Features Index, Introductory note, Maps, Pronunciation guide, Reviewed, and Teaching Guides

Author: Kathleen Benson

Author: Jim Haskins

Illustrator: Megan Moore

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Count Your Way

Count Your Way from one to ten in languages from around the world. Each spread has beautiful, full-page art and a number displayed in both English and a second language, introducing a cultural aspect of the featured country. View available downloads →

Reviews

The Horn Book Guide

“Each spread includes a colorful. . . painting as backdrop in addition to the Arabic numeral, the notation and pronunciation in Pashto.”
The Horn Book Guide