The Tooti nameh; or, Tales of a parrot, in the Persian language with an English translation.

English and persion on opposite pages, each text having its own paging (p. 9-170)

A grammar of the Persian language. To which is added, a selection of easy extracts for reading, together with a copious vocabulary.

Mode of access: Internet.

A specimen of Persian poetry, or, Odes of Hafez [microform] : with an English translation and paraphrase, chiefly from the Specimen poeseos Persicae of Baron Revizky ... with historical and grammatical illustrations and a complete analysis, for the assistance of those who wish to study the Persian language /

First ed.: London, 1774.

Tūtī-namāh. The Tooti nameh, or Tales of a parrot: in the Persian language, with and English translation.

Translation by Francis Gladwin. Cf. Brit. Mus. Cat.

Risālah-i ʻarūz̤-i qāfiyah : manuscript, 1683

Copy completed in the hand of Muḥammad Hāshim al-Ṭāyir in 1094 [1683].

The flowers of Persian literature : containing extracts from the most celebrated authors, in prose and verse, with a translation into English : being intended as a companion to Sir William Jones's Persian grammar : to which is prefixed an essay on the language and literature of Persia /

Mode of access: Internet.

Simplified grammar of Hindūstānī, Persian and Arabic./

Mode of access: Internet.

A new theory and prospectus of the Persian verbs, with their Hindoostanee synonimes in Persian and English.

Persian and English text, with added title-page in Persian.

Persian : basic course /

Vols. 2- published by Defense Language Institute, West Coast Branch, Presidio of Monterey, Calif.

Graeco-Persian names,

Mode of access: Internet.

The New Testament of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ : translated from the original Greek into Persian, at Sheeraz /

Also Persian t.p.

A dictionary in Persian and English.

Mode of access: Internet.

A grammar of the three principal Oriental languages, Hindoostanee, Persian, and Arabic, on a plan entirely new, and perfectly easy /

"Dialogues persans et francais," in Persian (roman characters) and French: p. [189]-236. "Persian dialogues, &c," the same dialogues in Persian script with English translation: p. [141]-188.

The Persian moonshee : containing a copious grammar, and a series of entertaining stories : also the Pund-namu of Sadee, being a compendium of ethics, in verse ... to which is added forms of addresses, petitions, citations, and bonds, etc., the whole in the Arabic and Roman characters together with an English translation /

Vol. 2 never published. (Cf. Preface, p. [vii])

A shared reading intervention with parents to enhance young children’s early literacy skills

Parental reading to children from an early age has been shown to enhance children’s emergent literacy skills. A pragmatic randomized controlled trial (RCT) was used to investigate the effects of two forms of shared reading interventions on children’s language and literacy skills. Parents of 80 preparatory year children from outer suburban schools of an Australian metropolitan city were trained to use shared reading strategies in an eight-week home intervention. Families were assigned to one of three groups: Dialogic Reading (DR), Dialogic Reading with the addition of Print Referencing (DR + PR), or an attention-matched control group. The sample comprised 42 boys and 38 girls ranging in age from 4.9 years to 6.3 years (M = 5.5, SD = 0.3). Data were collected at pre, post, and at three months follow-up. Measures assessed children’s oral language (receptive and expressive vocabulary), phonological awareness (rhyme, word completion), alphabet knowledge, and concepts about print. Analyses of change from pre to post showed significant effects for the DR and DR + PR groups compared to the control group on three of the six measures: expressive language, rhyme, and concepts about print. At 3-month follow-up assessment, the two intervention groups maintained significantly better performance on the measure of concepts of print only. At both time points, there were no group differences between the DR and DR+PR conditions. These findings illustrate the potential of a brief home focused intervention on promoting children’s emergent literacy.