Teaching Chinese at Home

[Charmaine_chong]

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[RAchelmum]

Hi

Can some kind parents please recommended good pre-schooler Chinese readers/ storybooks with hugh fonts?

I am currently on the Wo Hui Du series with my 21mth girl but hope to read some storybooks with her with no hanyu pinyin(find it too distracing), just large fonts & interesting illusrations.

Thks very much.

[Charmaine_chong]

Hi Rachelmum,


You might want to take a look at this one.

http://tamarindvillage.blogspot.com/2009/12/teaching-chinese-at-home.html

On top that, you can get some chinese classic poems to recite to your child.

[phankao]

RAchelmum:

Hi

Can some kind parents please recommended good pre-schooler Chinese readers/ storybooks with hugh fonts?

I am currently on the Wo Hui Du series with my 21mth girl but hope to read some storybooks with her with no hanyu pinyin(find it too distracing), just large fonts & interesting illusrations.

Thks very much.

Popular can find some. But must search carefully.

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I also saw a series of 4 books under a set called \"Hao Hai Zi\" at popular today that has words on 1 page and pictures on the other.

[RAchelmum]

thks very much

[RAchelmum]

Thks Charmaine

I had intro San Zhi Jing to my girl & she isnt interested, likely she cant relate anything to it. However, she likes the Tang Poems more, maybe cos of the 压韵 (ya yun) etc.

She had memorised 《咏鹅》(yong e) much to our surprise with a funny accent…cos she learnt English 1st.

I like the books from Berries with really large fonts. Wonder if they sell the books alone without attending any class.
Were u the one who is asking how to expedite on phonics learning process in Yahoo grp-Teach Your Baby To Read?

Phanko
Thks very much for the recomm. Will try to check it out!

[Blobbi]

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notfreemom:

Hi Charmaine,


Can I know where to learn lunYi? I have been searching for lunyi class for my kids too.

Thanks.

Some CC have. From my own experience, you have to start young, because once the kids pass certain age, they are not interested anymore.

Hi, is this a class or a book? And sorry, what's Lunyi again?

[Poohbear]

phankao:

Popular can find some. But must search carefully.

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fyi. i hv also seen this series in the libraries.

[Charmaine_chong]

Hi blobbi,


Lun yu 论语 is one of the chinese classic and a must read book in a person life. There are lots more.

I read from an article, a famous educationist in china commented that there are 5 important books a child must read in their life. I will copy the article here asap.

It is not easy to understand chinese classic but parent who is interested to teach a child to recite chinese classics need not to explain its meaning. Just turn on the cd and recite together as many times as possible daily. If recite 100 times, the child will never forget in his life.

They will eventually understand the meaning as they grow older. Just like we never explain to a child what is mother or father. They just know it along the way.

It will be good to learn in a group. My kids age 4 yo and 17mths old attend the weekly one hour class.

I witness myself how it benefits one through chinese classic. My niece and nephew gotten very good results in their Sec 5 exams. They aren’t early readers but their moms expose them to chinese classic when they were young.

If the child consistently pick up chinese classics eg: 300 Tang’s poems, Lun Yu, San Zhi Jin (these are just some of them) within 3 years times. Their chinese level will be as good as degree standard.

The focus is not on recognition of words, just read out with the child consistently everyday. The child need to point on the words and read out together to help them focus and eventually they will pick up all the words and recite very well.

0-3 years old is a child’s golden years. Please take this opportunity to expose the child the best you can provide. Expose them to well known paintings (just color print from website and paste it on the wall at their eye level), good music and classic. For English classic like Shakespeare.

We have just begun our journey in 儿童读经. I will surely update the thread about their progress and hope it can benefit the rest.

[Blobbi]

Tks so much, Charmaine. I’ll look into it and try to turn it into bed time reading for us. Looking forward to your findings!