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Textbooks for ABC's - Chinese Speakers, but born overseas
ABC in this case means Australian Born Chinese ;-)
I am looking for a textbook which can be used for Chinese background
primary students. Those students are born in Australia, however, they
first language is Chinese. Their listening and speaking skills are
perfect, but reading and writing are poor. Just wonder if you have
suitable books for them?
Sounds like my daughter :-)
I would look at Chinese Made Easy, it teaches writing. A lot of Chinese
Schools, that focus on American Born Chinese kids, use it. http://www.childbook.com/Chinese-Made-Easy-Buying-Guide-Chinese-Textbooks-s/337.htm
Sincerely,
Ray
www.childbook.com
Labels: abc, Chinese Americans, chinese children books, Learning Chinese Textbook
Modern Day The Little Match Girl,
eBooks Transforming Books
Another Day, Another Learning Chinese Competitor Site
It seems everyday I find another web site selling Learning Chinese. In my opinion ChildBook.com does a better job of selling Learning Chinese Material, but it's amazing how many sites pop up. It's easy to create a web site, there are a lot of tools out there to do it. It's so much easier than it was 11 years ago when I started. The challenges then become dealing with shipping, returns, back orders, and all those little tiny things that need make a great site. To me an important differentiator for ChildBook is our customer service and it's a challenge that keeps my job from being boring. Labels: chinese children books
Knowledge Connection
Thought provoking essay by E.D. Hirsch Jr. in the Washington Post, the Knowledge Connection. He also has a web site. Politics aside on Why No Child Left Behind has not lived up to it's expectations, the essay talks about the importance of giving children more exposure to different materials helps them in school. My belief is reading is a great way to expose children to more vocabulary and concepts through books, especially ones they may not get in school. School is so limited in the time they have with a child, so reading is often left to be done at home. Of course with competition from TV and video games, it's a challenge to bring up a young reader. One tactic is unplug the TV, to force the child to not watch TV. I am lucky that where I live, we have poor TV reception and we don't have cable (the horror according to my daughter). This enabled my wife and I to better control what my daughter watched on TV growing up, such as DVD's, or then it was also Video's. Another great way to help reading is by subscribing to a newspaper. I also believe in starting very young reading to children, to get them used to the concept and expose them to new ideas. Labels: chinese children books
Yang the youngest and his terrible ear
Fat epidemic hits Asian kids, too
From the Orange County Register Fat epidemic hits Asian kids, tooKey Points from the article: - Asian American families tend to be less physically active, more home-oriented and more screen-oriented than other groups
- Asian teens consume more fast food than their white counterparts
- Asian and Pacific Islander children compared to other ethnic and racial groups are also least likely to get their daily portions of fruits and veggies
- Overweight Asians develop diabetes and other chronic diseases at lower thresholds of obesity.
An additional problem becomes peer pressure. When the kids want to fit in, so they demand junk food. I remember once when I was growing up at an Asian friends house, a friend's mother had cooked something really nice (the mother is an A+ cook). And the younger brother wanted McDonald's. Another problem is a lot of Chinese Fast Food, is really not very Chinese. Many dishes are deep fried and add a sweet sauce to them. Another issue not mentioned in the article is how some Chinese parents like to have fat kids. They are cuter and seen as healthier. Not to mention the issue of single children from China, the little emperors and empresses that are spoiled by the entire family. Labels: chinese children books, weight
C Is For China - Book Comments
I was just looking at the book C is for China by Sungwan So. A photo journey for kids through China using the alphabet. Very cute book. A little bit out of date, but what is not on China (there is no bullet train in the book or pictures of the skyline of Shanghai). What is neat about the book is how many myths are subtly dispelled. For example a myth is everyone in China eats rice. But there is a page showing noodles and talking about all the different types of noodles there are from wheat, rice, and corn. Side note - If you really want to understand Noodles and food in general, a great book is On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen. The author has a column at the NY Times that is a good read called The Curious Cook
Back to the book, food distracts me and I did buy the book, must be my Engineering background on wanting to know why. The book, C is for China has a game that a reader asked about on how to play and my wife recognizes, but does not know how to explain in words. I have seen my wife and daughter play it. Beautiful photos and supposedly the author is teaching in Los Angeles area (but I was unable to locate him). The book does a nice job of catching at the time day to day life in China when it was photographed.
Labels: chinese children books
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