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Grade 3 Mandarin Language Art

Our Mandarin Language Art learning will be in step with the English Language Art learning. We will focus on reading, writing, listening and speaking enhancing.

Genres

Students will learn these types of texts:

  • Letters (Chinese format)
  • Fantasy
  • Realistic fiction
  • Chinese poem

Comprehension

  • Identify the main idea of a paragraph, story, and text
  • Identify the supporting details
  • Identify the 5Ws in a story or text (what, when, where, who, why)

Grammar

  • Types of sentences (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory)
  • Basic sentence structure (time, character, place, and event)
  • Punctuation (comma, period, question mark, exclamation mark)
  • nouns/proper nouns, verbs, descriptive words

Vocabulary

  • Pinyin of the vocabulary
  • English meaning of the vocabulary
  • Radical of the vocabulary
  • Antonyms/Synonyms/homophones

Writing

  • Basic sentence writing under the Chinese sentence structure
  • Narrative writing
  • Descriptive writing
  • Letter writing

Speaking

  • Fluently read out loud the level texts
  • Basic dialogue (asking/ answering date, days of the week, weather; greeting; self-introduction; 1-100 numbers counting; times table reading)
  • Asking and answering the yes or no, what, who, when, where questions
  • Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners

 

Contents

Pinyin dictionary:

https://zidian.51240.com/pinyinl/

Radical dictionary:

https://zidian.51240.com/bushou/

Textbook reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv6Lu2IIc9Q&list=PLPcQoyI9NUIAA0UJaqTh_yPUfIT8oT_ug

Grade 4 Mandarin Language Art

Genres

Students will learn these types of texts:

  • Letters (Chinese format)
  • Fantasy
  • Realistic fiction
  • Chinese poem

Comprehension

  • Restating the question in short responses
  • Identify character characters, setting, and events
  • Analyzing character traits
  • Describing physical traits of a character
  • Describe the difference between fantasy and realistic fiction
  • Using thinking maps
  • Cause and effect

Grammar

  • Part of speech (nouns, adjectives, verbs)
  • Basic sentence structure (time, character, place, and event)
  • Punctuation (comma, period, question mark, exclamation mark)
  • Sentence explanations (who, what, where, when, why)
  • Synonyms/Antonyms

Vocabulary

  • Pinyin of the vocabulary
  • English meaning of the vocabulary
  • Part of speech (nouns, adjectives, verbs)
  • Radical of the vocabulary
  • Antonyms/Synonyms/homophones

Writing

  • Basic sentence writing under the Chinese sentence structure
  • Reading response
  • Brainstorming
  • Personal narratives
  • Letter writing
  • Peer review

Speaking

  • Fluently read out loud the level texts
  • Asking and answering the yes or no, what, who, when, where questions
  • Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners
  • Making reading response

Contents

Pinyin dictionary:

https://zidian.51240.com/pinyinl/

Radical dictionary:

https://zidian.51240.com/bushou/

Textbook reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv6Lu2IIc9Q&list=PLPcQoyI9NUIAA0UJaqTh_yPUfIT8oT_ug

 

Grade 5 Mandarin Language Art

Genres

Students will learn these types of texts:

  • Fantasy
  • Realistic fiction
  • fable

Comprehension

  • Restating the question in short responses
  • Identify character characters, setting, and event
  • Analyzing character traits
  • Describing physical traits of a character
  • Describe the difference between fantasy and realistic fiction
  • Using thinking maps
  • Cause and effect

Grammar

  • Part of speech (nouns, adjectives, verbs)
  • Basic sentence structure (time, character, place, and event)
  • Punctuation (comma, period, question mark, exclamation mark)
  • Sentence explanations (who, what, where, when, why)
  • Synonyms/Antonyms

Vocabulary

  • Pinyin of the vocabulary
  • English meaning of the vocabulary
  • Part of speech (nouns, adjectives, verbs)
  • Radical of the vocabulary
  • Antonyms/Synonyms/homophones

Writing

  • Basic sentence writing under the Chinese sentence structure
  • Reading response
  • Summarizing
  • Brainstorming
  • Personal narratives
  • Peer review

Speaking

  • Fluently read out loud the level texts
  • Asking and answering the yes or no, what, who, when, where questions
  • Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners
  • Making reading response

Contents

Pinyin dictionary:

https://zidian.51240.com/pinyinl/

Radical dictionary:

https://zidian.51240.com/bushou/

Textbook reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjgGsaF61XA&list=PLPcQoyI9NUIDPWS-HEDt3IA6thHtMfHFf