Chinese Assessment Books

[janet88]

plum-cake:

Mychildren:

Wonder why these forum is much more quiet than the English, Math & Science forum? Sorry, just curious....

I think most of the parents out-sourced the MT, so its in tutors hands lor...

HI PLUM-CAKE

Honestly, it's much much easier to buy CL assessment books as compared to other subjects...that's why I get CL assessment books last. It's a torture to buy the other 3 subjects...standing there and going through contents is :stupid:

[Mychildren]

Champion & Janet,

Think you're both right, not so much variety of assessment books for Chinese.

[happyheart]

Not sure if this is the right thread to ask this question.


My son’s not in HCL and his foundation in chinese is not that strong. The present tutor is giving him homework from several assessment books, xi ji, ding xie as weekly homework. I find it stressful to even finish the homework ( let alone him) but she insisted that he needs to build up!
I completed understand her kind intention but I am have the thought that too much assessment book is not that effective after all. Parent with similar experience, pls advise.

[Mychildren]

I agreed that for languages, assessment books alone doesn't work. If they don't know how to read the words or don't understand what does it means, even doing many many worksheets, does not help. Same goes with my kids. I think need to speak more to them in Chinese and read more story books to them. Also getting them to understand what does those words mean and using these works in making sentences. My kids only scored average for Chinese. So maybe someone whose kids scored higher marks can advise us what should we do. I personally thinks that once a week tuition for Chinese is not enough, though my kids did not have tuition for Chinese. :sick:

[janet88]

happyheart:

Not sure if this is the right thread to ask this question.


My son's not in HCL and his foundation in chinese is not that strong. The present tutor is giving him homework from several assessment books, xi ji, ding xie as weekly homework. I find it stressful to even finish the homework ( let alone him) but she insisted that he needs to build up!
I completed understand her kind intention but I am have the thought that too much assessment book is not that effective after all. Parent with similar experience, pls advise.

Experienced that last year...son had so much school homework we had to help him !!! Ex tutor literally piled on homework from every assessment book :slapshead: ...had to tell her to go easy. Building up foundation is impt, but have to see how it is done...quality, not quantity.

[chowon]

Mychildren:

I agreed that for languages, assessment books alone doesn't work. If they don't know how to read the words or don't understand what does it means, even doing many many worksheets, does not help. Same goes with my kids. I think need to speak more to them in Chinese and read more story books to them. Also getting them to understand what does those words mean and using these works in making sentences. My kids only scored average for Chinese. So maybe someone whose kids scored higher marks can advise us what should we do. I personally thinks that once a week tuition for Chinese is not enough, though my kids did not have tuition for Chinese. :sick:

My dd listens to Chinese stories in the car daily and speaks to my dh in Mandarin. Apart from lots of listening and speaking, she enjoys reading too, particularly Chinese Classics. With that, she has managed to score full marks for all the speaking components (oral, show and tell, recitation) and near full marks for composition.

Comprehension is another story. This section really requires a lot of practice on the answering. She was so confused with EL comprehension and lost some marks.

That said, doing assessment books is still important. Choosing the right one to do is even more important. hth.

[happyheart]

Thanks all for your sharing and advice. I will discuss workload with the tutor, hopefully can strike a balance. I agree speaking the language and exposing them to it is the best way, just that my boy is so NOT interested to even read chinese story books or watch chinese drama. Headache

[SAHM_TAN]

happyheart:

Thanks all for your sharing and advice. I will discuss workload with the tutor, hopefully can strike a balance. I agree speaking the language and exposing them to it is the best way, just that my boy is so NOT interested to even read chinese story books or watch chinese drama. Headache

How about Chinese cartoon shows? Like xi yang yang, xiao ding dang?

[happyheart]

His attention for those… no more 30mins

[chowon]

Try this link. There are many cartoons available. 1 day watch 1 clip and it is definitely less than 30mins. Baby steps!


http://www.iqiyi.com/dongman/