Alphabet Lessons by Michael Neterer, SALT Director

Somali Adult Literacy Training
a program of World Relief Minesota

• It is designed to help Somali adults (and children too!) learn to read in both Somali and English.  This book can help a man or woman who has never gone to school.  If they are learning to read for the first time in their life, they will learn only the UPPER CASE letters in this book.

• It is for classrooms, but each student should have a 1-on-1 tutor.   The Somali alphabet is easy because the name of the letter IS the sound that it makes.  Learning to read in the mother tongue (Somali) is easier because Somalis already know the sounds, meaning and grammar of their own language.  This book helps them learn the sound-symbol correspondece to decode the text.

• The lessons are numbered in the order of frequency the sound occurs in the Somali language.  Lessons 1-29 start in Somali and move to English.

Each lesson has vocabulary pages with seven boxes that include a picture illustrating a Somali word that begins with the key letter.  The lesson ends with a scripture verse that contains a word or sound from that lesson.

Paperback 8 1/2 x 11  217 pages                            

ENG-L993...............................$20.00                3 or more books.............$15.00 each