ドラえもん ・ Doraemon 🤖 (ABBC) Week 11

[mitrac]

Welcome to Week 11 of ドラえもん ・ Doraemon

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Week 11	22 Feb 2025
Start Page	124
End Page	end
Chapters	Commentary
Last week	Week 10

Page numbers are the ones printed on the bottom of the pages. These may differ from the numbering in digital versions.

Last panel: end of book

Vocabulary

Vocabulary spreadsheet

Characters

Japanese	English	role	photo
ドラえもん	Doraemon	main character - a robot-like cat from the future sent by Nobita’s great-great-grandson
野比 のび太・ のび のびた	Nobita Nobi	main character

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Discussion questions

What do you think about this week’s invention from the future?

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[mitrac]

This is the last and optional week of Doraemon. We’ve read all the episodes, the rest is commentary on why these episodes were chosen for grade 1, ie, what educational principles are demonstrated or what a kid can learn. If it’s too difficult or dry for your taste, feel free to skip or just read the commentary for your favourite story!

[mitrac]

I’ll put in some notes about the high points of the commentary so anyone reading can check their understanding. Don’t feel bad if it’s very challenging, the word choice is pretty high level and not daily life / conversational.

ふわりねん土

This one is longer because it explained in general for first graders they chose stories that are direct and easy to understand. So you probably noticed they all had a similar format of problem, Nobita asks Doraemon for something, and after Doraemon delivers there is a resolution. Often the resolution requires a bit of problem solving, and this commentary highlighted how the children got further when they combined efforts / worked together 仲間分け

ピーヒヨロロープ

Apparently a happy ending story is ideal for building reading comprehension skills. In this case, the story jumped from the thief playing the flute to being tied up, so this means the child must ask themselves and imagine (with Nobita in the scene shown) what song did the thief play for it to end this way?

さかみちレバー

This one is about developing intuition for physical systems. By connecting their own emotions about rolling down a step hill to Nobita’s, children can comprehend the mechanism behind the story better

ゴロアワセトウ

That was the story with the word play so it was talking about making associations with the words as part of reading

木こりのいずみ

It points out the themes of honesty and greed and suggests reading while thinking, what would I do?

おくれカメラ

As far as I got it, it saying the key comprehension challenge is to get the time sequence of events. The commentary suggests working this out for three specific scenes, and even suggests getting help to understand the pictures of the dad’s movements. Apparently the concept of something happening “40 minutes ago” is something that becomes learned/ understood from the 2nd grade, so the hope was to introduce it here and start building that capability earlier.

Maybe that gives anyone interested the gist of these. If you have questions or want to discuss a later one give a shout!

[mgevaert]

thanks for reading these! It’s cool knowing there was a reason for which stories were chosen/what order they’re presented in, beyond just reading level!