Greetings and Introductions: Bubble Characters

At the beginning of the school, ask students to color the bubble characters for: 你好 我叫 我 ...岁 Download the Greetings and Introductions worksheet... Read More...

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Cupcakes and Reading Characters

Make these cupcake cards to help students memorize the characters on the candle flame. Materials: cupcake liners cotton wool string fluffy craf... Read More...

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兵马俑 The Buried Army – Characters

Students will have fun coloring the characters for the Buried Army. Use this worksheet for young learners who are learning about the Buried Terracotta army in 西... Read More...

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Stroke Order of Chinese Characters

This Ppt shows students simple examples of stroke order. Download Stroke Order of Chinese Characters... Read More...

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Fun With Chinese Characters – Student Writing Booklet (Digital Download)

109 pages of fun writing worksheets for students. The following characters are included: 耳，走，足，雨，人，刀，又，门，大，子，工，心，月，目，木，衣，马，日，鱼，水，口，手，金，土，言，火，女，力，笑，小，妈妈，爸爸，姐姐... Read More...

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Bubble Characters: Halloween 万圣节

Students will color the bubble characters and then draw a Halloween scene and label in pinyin or characters. Download the Bubble Characters: Halloween... Read More...

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Dice Game: Easy Characters

Characters include: 大，人，口，小，日，月. How to use the Dice Game: Print each template and cut out. Students can use one dice and read the characters. Stu... Read More...

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Bubble Characters: My Family

Students will color the bubble characters and then learn to write the characters related to family. Download 10 pages - Bubble Characters - My Family... Read More...

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Presentation: Tips And Tricks To Learning Chinese Characters

The latest research on the brain and language learning can assist us in teaching Chinese characters in a systematic way, so students succeed in learning. We ... Read More...

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Learn to write Hello 你好 in Chinese characters (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNwjEgnioXQ&feature=youtu.be... Read More...

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Fun Ideas for Learning Chinese Characters

  Use popcorn to help students remember the shape of characters. Give students play-doh to make the shape of Chinese characters. Easy!   ... Read More...

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Level 1: Bubble Characters (Kindergarten)

Use the Bubble Character worksheets for young learners to color each character. Students can also draw objects on the worksheet to aid remembering each char... Read More...

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If students are finding it hard to remember characters…try the Ice cream Challenge!

  The Ice Cream Challenge is a very motivational way to encourage even the youngest student to remember characters. Each student is given a folde... Read More...

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Color Train – Read characters (shapes and colors)

Download the Color-shape-train Students will read the characters for square, rectangle, circle and triangle, then color the shape a color.... Read More...

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Easy Chinese Characters Search

Download Halloween-Easy characters Search Teachers will call out the Chinese character or show a flashcard, then students will find the matching character an... Read More...

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Match numbers with characters and pinyin

Download the Matching_1-10 Teachers can call out a number in Chinese and the students need to match the number with the pinyin and character.... Read More...

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Easy Characters Ppt

Students will learn to read easy Chinese characters and basic radicals. Download the Early Years PPT... Read More...

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Fun with Chinese Characters

Use students' visual memory when learning Radicals and characters. The booklet below can be printed and displayed in the classroom for easy reference, or you ca... Read More...

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Video: Playdoh Chinese Characters

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20 Tips For Teaching Characters

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Turn Chinese characters into pictures (Chinese Zodiac)

Learning Chinese characters doesn't need to be hard. Use this Chinese Zodiac characters worksheet to help students remember each animal word by using pictures. ... Read More...

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Webinar – Tips and Tricks for Teaching Chinese Characters

Welcome, Teachers of Chinese! Our next Webinar online will be held on Sunday, September 20th from 1pm-2pm, EST. It's a great opportunity to meet other teachers... Read More...

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The Fishing Game – Reading characters

Use the Fish game to help students recognize Chinese characters. Make fishing rods with rulers, strong and magnets to pick up the fish.... Read More...

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I Can Read Characters

Download a Mini-Book to help students recognize simple characters. Print a copy for students to read.... Read More...

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Make your own book: Simple Chinese characters

Once students learn simple radicals, they can create their own book. Download the 'I can read characters' book below. 'I can read' book   &nbs... Read More...

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Font cube Game: Learn Chinese characters and radicals

Have you ever had students that complained when trying to read different Chinese fonts? This is a great game to accustom learners to read characters in differen... Read More...

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The Dragon Temple Game – Reading characters

Students will learn about the building blocks of characters (radicals) and then learn to match characters that have the same component.   Play the ga... Read More...

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Radicals and Stroke order of characters

When students are learning to write Chinese, the focus should be of exploration and discover, and NOT on teacher instruction. Character_search - Students wil... Read More...

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Radicals – Building Blocks of characters – Middle school

Recognizing words in text (PDF) - Students will use an authentic sign from China to identify radicals - building blocks of characters. Exploring words - Stud... Read More...

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Radicals – Building blocks of characters – High school

Exploring_components - Students will dissect a complex character into it's parts - radicals. Classifying_component_meanings - 48 basic radicals. Students wil... Read More...

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Reading characters Ppt

Introduce characters and allow students to use Chinglish to write stories. Chinglish is part English and part Chinese. Students can write stories and use the... Read More...

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Chinese characters: stroke order

Before any Chinese characters are introduced I allow students to discover the space that the characters take up. We then look at parts of characters that are bu... Read More...

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Look, Cover, Write, Check – Learn to write characters

I use a method called 'Look, Cover, Write, Check' to teach students how to write characters. I do not use grids or memorization. After students explore the s... Read More...

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Use visual cues to remember characters

Every character I teach, I ask students to think of a way to remember it. I encourage students to use visual cues, stories, and shapes to remember the meaning o... Read More...

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Introduction to Chinese characters

The first stage in teaching characters to students, is to focus on the shape and components. See below for the stages I use to introduce characters. I print ... Read More...

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Shaving cream Chinese characters

Before students even begin to write characters with a pencil or pen, I encourage them to try some tactile activities so they can get a feel for the strokes and ... Read More...

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My first Chinese characters Book for students

Starting off the new school year introducing Chinese radicals and simple characters is essential. It is important to break down the barrier that some students f... Read More...

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Let the students write characters!

  Download starter sentences for students Let the students write Chinese! from Shaz Lawrence... Read More...

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Tips and tricks for remembering Chinese characters

Tips and Tricks for remembering Chinese characters from Shaz Lawrence ... Read More...

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Inquiry-based learning of Chinese characters

Inquiry-based Learning of Chinese characters from Shaz Lawrence... Read More...

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Making Chinese characters

Students need a lot of tactile experience with Chinese characters, before writing can begin. Why not give students some pretzels and ask them to create Chine... Read More...

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Pictographic words – Reading characters

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