適合年齡

10歲左右

繪本簡介

What are the blues, and how do you know if you've had them or heard them? Let's start with the feeling. Have you ever felt down or sad? If so, then you've had the blues. The blues are a feeling that things just aren't going your way, and everybody gets this feeling from time to time. What's different is how people choose to deal with the blues—some people cry, others eat, some talk to friends or paint a picture, and still others sing.

People have always used music as one way to express their feelings, and often they feel better after they have sung or played music. Music that expresses feelings of sadness through the words or the melody has become known as the blues. The blues is a form of music that came out of the American South. It is one of the few types of music to originate in the United States.

什么是布魯斯，你怎么知道你是否聽過或聽過它們? 讓我們從感覺開始。 你有沒有感到沮喪或悲傷? 如果是這樣，那么你已經有憂郁癥了。 憂郁是一種感覺事情沒有按照你的方式發展，每個人都會不時地感受到這種感覺。 不同的是人們選擇如何處理憂郁癥——有些人哭，有些人吃飯，有些人與朋友交談或畫畫，還有一些人唱歌。 人們一直將音樂作為表達情感的一種方式，通常在唱歌或演奏音樂后感覺更好。 通過文字或旋律表達悲傷情緒的音樂被稱為藍調。 藍調是一種來自美國南部的音樂形式。 它是少數起源于美國的音樂類型之一。

RAZ有嚴密的分級體系：根據全文詞匯數、高頻詞詞匯數與比例、低頻詞詞匯數與比例、句子長度、句子復雜度、句式、插圖信息量、思想深度、主題等多個角度，將整個閱讀體系分為aa，A-Z共27個級別。

RAZ旨在幫助孩子找到適合孩子水平的級別，通過在同一級別下的大量閱讀逐步提高孩子的閱讀能力。

RAZ按難度分為27個級別，AA—C這4個級別對應幼兒園階段; D—J這7個級別對應美國小學一年級;K—P這6個級別對應美國小學二年級;Q—T這4個級別對應美國小學三年級;U—W這3個級別對應美國小學四年級;X—Z對應美國小學五六年級(相當于國內高中畢業)。