Free Teachers’ Book on How to Effectively Teach Children Mandarin Chinese

Rowland Heights, CA, May 22, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Teachers and parents looking for books on how to teach Chinese effectively to children can now get another guide from an online bookstore for kids learning Chinese.

Childbook.com is pleased to announce that Practical Chinese series of textbooks now has teacher’s guides available. While some Learn-Chinese teachers’ guides are for sale, the Practical Chinese Teachers’ Guide is available for free.

Practical Chinese textbooks help children learn Mandarin Chinese easily through a guided. Practical Chinese lessons also stress learning about Chinese culture to enhance children’s learning of the language. Exercises gradually progress from writing characters with the correct stroke order, translating words into Chinese, asking and answering questions according to real life situations, translating sentences, and performing oral presentations. Students are also taught how to read Pin Yin.

Available materials from Practical Chinese are 8 levels of textbooks, workbooks and audio CD or cassette. The free teachers’ guides are for the first 4 levels only, as of this date. All materials are available in Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

The lessons taught in Practical Chinese Series follow a curriculum approved by the Association of Chinese Teachers Foreign Language. The curriculum is also a good review program for SATs and other Chinese proficiency test.

Practical Chinese books were written by Ms. Wendy Lin, initially to help her 3 children learn Chinese. The author then designed Practical Chinese to specifically cater to those who intend to use Chinese as a secondary language. Wendy has taught at West Windsor Middle School, the Hun School in Princeton, and Marlboro Middle School. She also wrote the Chinese curriculum for the Marlboro school district. Currently, she is tutoring individuals and adoptive families other than writing, and teaching in Chinese school.

Practical Chinese is being used in schools in the US, Guam, Canada, Australia, Israel, Hong Kong, China and more.

Copies of Practical Chinese Teachers’ Guides Levels 1 through 4 may be downloaded from www.childbook.com.

ChildBook.com is an online bookstore for children that specializes in providing Learn-Chinese materials since 1997. ChildBook sells story and activity books, videos, songs and other learning materials in Chinese and English.

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