MS Chinese Guide

DIFFERENTIATION IN ACTION

● Use a variety of visuals to defne Chinese characters for family, occupations, etc. ● Use a graphic organizer to differentiate the Chinese characters, phrases, & images for students to make associations between objects & characters for family and occupations. ● Use Total Physical Response to review Chinese characters and calendar vocabulary. ● Group students to allow opportunity for them to practice Chinese. ● Before assigning students a conversation, model the conversation, and provide sentence frames or sentence starters (eg. How many brothers and/or sisters do you have? I have … What is the youngest/oldest? …). ● Use gestures and oral repetition of key phrases and words in multiple contexts. ● Ask and answer simple questions to learn about family members. ● Ask and answer simple questions about family members’ occupations (What’s your mom doing for living? 你的 妈妈 做什么工作？ ) ● Give short oral descriptions of self and family members telling how many are in your family, who they are, how old they are, what they like to do, and what they do for a living. ● Read short paragraphs describing a family (how many people in the family, how old they are, when are their birthdays? 你家有几口人？他 们 几 岁？ 他 们 的生日是几月几 日？ ) ● Engage the student in more student-teacher conversation in Chinese aside from regularly planned activities or group the student with other advanced learners who are ready for more challenging dialog. ● Have students ask questions and/or give TPR commands for the class. ● Students ask questions about the topics covered in a lesson (ie. looking at a picture,

Skill Building

Extension

the student can ask “Who is …? How old is …? Where …?”). ● Have students provide extended responses/more details. ● Have students recognize and read the characters without Pinyin.

● Provide visual support, word bank, sentence frames for students on describing age, family members, occupations, have students write a short description of your family telling how many people are in your family, who they are, how old they are, and what they do for a living.