Hey! I had 16 novels come in today; there's no reason for you to assume it was the Fafner novel with the insane furigana. ...... But yeah, it was the Fafner novel I was talking about, although looking through them the Tenchi novels have insane furigana too.
Thing is you don't learn entire characters at once in elementary. You learn individual readings of them.
So, you do learn both 大 and 人 in first grade, but not the combination おとな。
Under the current guideline (looking in a first grade reader right now) they don't learn ジン or ニン for 人 either until second.
At the end of each story in elementary school, they have the new kanji/readings, entirely new letters have a white dot and new readings for previously seen characters have a black dot.
Something interesting I notice in books with lots of hurigana for kids though (like Harry Potter) is, they'll use quite a few nice advanced characters (that are far outside the 常用漢字表) because no need worry, if the ruby is on I guess.
国語 books have little story selections in them, and at the end of each one there's a page that lists the new characters and readings that came up in the story, and then a page with questions or things to think about.
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Date: 2008-05-13 12:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-13 12:22 am (UTC)......
But yeah, it was the Fafner novel I was talking about, although looking through them the Tenchi novels have insane furigana too.
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Date: 2008-05-13 12:35 am (UTC)So, you do learn both 大 and 人 in first grade, but not the combination おとな。
Under the current guideline (looking in a first grade reader right now) they don't learn ジン or ニン for 人 either until second.
At the end of each story in elementary school, they have the new kanji/readings, entirely new letters have a white dot and new readings for previously seen characters have a black dot.
Something interesting I notice in books with lots of hurigana for kids though (like Harry Potter) is, they'll use quite a few nice advanced characters (that are far outside the 常用漢字表) because no need worry, if the ruby is on I guess.
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Date: 2008-05-13 01:35 am (UTC)