Get Ready For School Chinese Writing Workbook 1
About this ebook
Do you need to write every Chinese character that you learn?
How many times do you need to write a Chinese character?
Is it effective to write a full page of the same Chinese character repeatedly?
How to remember all the strokes in a Chinese character easily?
Your child will be able to
Identify the PARTS (strokes and Chinese Alphabets) in Chinese characters. This will help to build a strong foundation for higher learning
Learn in MULTIPLE WAYS - tracing, colouring, writing, visualising (or choose one way that suits your child)
Understand the MEANING of the Chinese characters through PICTURES. (Pronunciation and English meaning included)
Develop hand dexterity to write big and small characters (or focus on big characters first and finish the small characters later)
CONTENT OF GET READY FOR SCHOOL CHINESE
WORKBOOK 1 (EASY)
47 Chinese characters NOT more than 6 strokes (with 1 to 3 parts)
Pictures for colouring
Activities to recall characters learnt
Blank handwriting papers
METHODOLOGY
Many learners dread Chinese writing drills - repeating pages and pages of the same Chinese characters. Writing can be fun if done moderately and in varied ways.
Your child will be engaged because we
Limit writing exercises to about 10 repetitions per character
Create varied activities (e.g. varying word sizes, alternating between similar-looking characters, creating tracing and colouring options)
Present strokes in cartoons with easy-to-remember names
Provide more than one way to learn - trace, colour, write, visualise
If your purpose is to develop the ability to RECALL the Chinese characters you learn, writing the characters is only one way to register them in your mind. More importantly, you need to be able to VISUALISE it, that is able to
see the components in the character,
how they are combined and
the order they are combined.
In our books, we teach Chinese characters broken down into PARTS (not strokes only). A part can be a stroke or a Chinese Alphabet.
A Chinese Alphabet is a repetitive component that is made up of 2 to 6 strokes. Learning Chinese Alphabets before learning Chinese characters helps to reduce memory work - don’t remember a character by disintegrated strokes, remember it by PARTS (strokes and alphabets) and do it systematically.
VISUALISE CHINESE CHARACTERS
Look out for the “LEARN CHINESE VISUALLY (1 to 10)” series of books to help children visualise strokes, Chinese Alphabets and characters in COLOURS!
LEARN CHINESE VISUALLY (FOUNDATION SERIES)
BOOK 1: MEET THE STROKES IN CHINESE CHARACTERS
BOOK 2: COUNT IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH
BOOK 3: MEET THE CHINESE ALPHABETS
BOOK 4: 32 TEAMS OF CHINESE ALPHABETS
BOOK 5: MORE CHINESE ALPHABETS
BOOK 6: MY FIRST WORDS
BOOK 7: HOW TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS
BOOK 8: MORE WAYS TO ‘SPELL’ CHINESE WORDS
BOOK 9: UNIQUE WAYS TO 'SPELL' CHINESE WORDS
BOOK 10: HOW TO GUESS THE MEANING OF CHINESE WORDS
FREE eBOOK
In view of the Covid-19 situation when many children have to stay home to study, we decided to make the e-version of Workbook 1 FREE for parents to download and print for their children to practise.
Purchase Physical Copy
If you think that a physical copy is easier to use and keep for future reference, you are welcome to purchase a copy online.
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You may also be interested in Workbooks 2 and 3 covering more complex characters.
Get Ready for School Chinese Writing Workbooks 2: 50 Animal Names in Chinese
Chinese Writing and Activity Book on Halloween Masquerade Characters
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About the author
W.Q. Blosh is an author producing original materials for you learning Chinese as a second or foreign language at all ages. Based in Singapore, where there are many learners learning English and Chinese concurrently from young, she understood the struggle and learning needs of bilinguals and multi-linguals. The materials she produced are unconventional, original and effective, and provide strategies to quicken the learning process while enjoying the language.
