* Get Ready for School Chinese Writing Workbook 2 is for preschoolers and children who are starting to learn to write Chinese. Get them interested and learn Chinese characters through animals * Your child will learn in MULTIPLE WAYS - colouring, writing, visualising (or choose one way that suits your child) * UNIQUE METHOD (not found anywhere): We teach Chinese characters broken down into PARTS (not strokes only). A part can be a stroke or a Chinese Alphabet. * 50 Animal Names in Chinese (including the 12 Chinese Zodiac Animals) * Animal pictures for colouring. * Learning is enhanced through activities to recall characters learnt * Simplified Chinese characters (used in China, Singapore education systems) METHODOLOGY Many learners dread Chinese writing drills - repeating pages and pages of the same Chinese characters. Writing can be fun if done moderately and in varied ways. Your child will be engaged because we * Limit writing exercises to not more than 15 repetitions per vocabulary * Create varied activities (e.g. varying word sizes, alternating between similar-looking characters, creating tracing and colouring options) * Provide more than one way to learn - colour, write, visualise * Enhance learning through careful selection of vocabulary that builds foundation (e.g. the character 牛 cow/bull appears in other animals - snail 蜗牛 and buffalo 水牛） In our books, we teach Chinese characters broken down into PARTS (not strokes only). A part can be a stroke or a Chinese Alphabet. A Chinese Alphabet is a repetitive component that is made up of 2 to 6 strokes. Learning Chinese Alphabets before learning Chinese characters helps to reduce memory work - don’t remember a character by disintegrated strokes, remember it by PARTS (strokes and alphabets) and do it systematically. How much time does a learner need to spend learning to write Chinese characters? Do you need to write every Chinese character that you learn? How many times do you need to write a Chinese character? Is it effective to write a full page of the same Chinese character repeatedly? How to remember all the strokes in a Chinese character easily? If your purpose is to develop the ability to RECALL the Chinese characters you learn, writing the characters is only one way to register them in your mind. More importantly, you need to be able to VISUALISE it, that is able to see * the components in the character, * how they are combined and * the order they are combined. What your child will learn: * Identify the PARTS (strokes and Chinese Alphabets) in Chinese characters. This will help to build a strong foundation for higher learning * Learn in MULTIPLE WAYS - colouring, writing, visualising (or choose one way that suits your child) * Understand the MEANING of the Chinese characters through PICTURES. (Pronunciation and English meaning included) * Develop hand dexterity to write big and small characters (or focus on big characters first and finish the small characters later)