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The Fastest Pig in the West in the Classroom: Zodiac Signs
Learners explore Chinese culture by reading a story with their class. In this astrology lesson, students read a chapter from the book The Fastest Pig in the West and discuss the relevance of the Chinese zodiac in modern society. Learners...
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Good Will - Three Chinese Stories
Young scholars listen to The Seven Chinese Brothers and identify tall tale elements in it. They brainstorm ways they could help each other in school. They create a banner reflecting the style and art of Chinese decorations and clothing...
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Reading Comprehension—Chinese Stretch to Catch up with Teenage Model
For this ESL reading comprehension worksheet, students read an essay entitled, "Chinese Stretch to Catch Up With Teenage Model." They answer 5 multiple choice comprehension and 8 matching questions based on the reading.
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Glyph: The Year of the Tiger
In this Chinese calendar activity, learners read about the Year of the Tiger and the common attributes of people born in those years. Following 12 directions, students color the tiger picture in different colors depending on their own...
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Chinese Numbers Activity
In this Chinese number worksheet, students practice writing numbers in Chinese; a set of numbers is given for reference.
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Reading for Information: Chinese Emigration
Pupils explore Chinese emigration and answer comprehension questions from the reading; students conduct interview with someone who has immigrated to the United States.
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Word Search Puzzles: Chinese Cultural Words
Learners complete a set of word searches about Chinese foods, geography and culture. Follow-up, extension and modifications to the instructional activity are given and include illustrating words of the puzzle, making original puzzles on...
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Creating Characters
Students identify simple pictographs and ideographs from Chinese writing. They create their own images, and combine characters to communicate ideas to one another, introducing basic foundations of how elements of the Chinese writing...
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The Rigors of Learning a New Language
Students consider the immensity of the the task the author undertook to learn Chinese. They examine the rigors involved in learning another language-particularly one as notoriously difficult as Chinese and compare aspects of Chinese...
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The Archer and The Sun
First graders explore Chinese folktales. For this Chinese folktale lesson ,students read Chinese folktales, locate China on a map, and color the Chinese flag. Students are given sentence strips to hold and must arrange themselves in the...
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Shapes
In this Chinese shapes instructional activity, students color in 16 different shapes, trace the 8 dotted lined shapes and pronounce each shape in Chinese.
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Poetry With the Sages
Students write poems and input them into a word processing program. In this poetry lesson, students listen to Chinese poems and draw mental images. Students compose poems and illustrate them. Students share their work.
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Chinese New Year Bookmarks
In this Chinese New Year worksheet, students cut out 4 bookmarks with information about the Year of the Rooster. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Chinese Dialect Exercise
Students are exposed to the obstacles in communication created by the presence of dialects, and made aware of the usefulness of a common writing system available to speakers of all dialect forms.
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Learning Chinese the Challenge Way
Young scholars conduct extensive research that integrates reading, writing oral language development and web authoring. They construct a web site to reflect different aspects of their investigational experience. Students work in small...
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Storytelling Traditions
Pupils demonstrate an evaluation of how the culture of a time period influences storytelling narratives by comparing Adeline's story to the plot summary of Cinderella and Anne Sexton's poem Cinderella. They write a poem which reworks a...
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Understanding Tiananmen Square
William Bell's Forbidden City is used as the basis of a study of China, Chinese culture and government, and especially of the events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Class members select a topic for Internet research and then prepare a...
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Reading comprehension
In this reading comprehension worksheet, 4th graders read passages about Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), sharks, Chinese tales, and more. Students then answer 24 multiple choice questions.
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New Year Celebrations
Second graders compare and contrast holidays. In this holiday lesson, 2nd graders compare United States New Year to the Chinese New Year. They read the story This Next New Year by Janet S. Wong and create a list about how China...
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Pam Wu's Teaching Portfolio
Students explore the Chinese New Year through Scholastic News magazine. In this cultural awareness lesson, students use a thinking map to develop their critical thinking skills pertaining to the Chinese New Year. Students compose...
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Imagining China Through Words
Middle schoolers create a drawing from a written description to examine images of China in European art. In this art analysis activity, students create a visual image from a written description of an object. Middle schoolers compare...
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Red Riding Hood in China
Inspire young writers to compose their own version of the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood." They begin by reading "Little Red Riding Hood" and the Chinese version <i>Lon Po Po</i>, then they compare and contrast the two...
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Imagining China through Words
When Europeans first came back with tales of China, they provided vivid written accounts and minimal visual imput. This resulted in art rendered mostly from descriptive language. Learners explore this phenomena by listening to...
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