MLPP 4TH GRADE SIGHT WORDS LICENSE

Unfortunately, Sagebooks is only for 500 characters.Įven though the Ma LiPing site is all in Simplified Chinese, you can get the gist of it using Google Translate (which I did). In fact, this series reminds me of the Sagebooks in the sense that it emphasizes literacy of common words over learning words based on ease of recognition and writing. And by the end of 10th grade, students are exposed to 2,794 characters. In the 5th grade, to teach students to input Chinese via computer.

Through Ma LiPing, students are expected to know 1,500 of the most frequent words used in general Chinese books by 4th grade. (Even though kids in China initially learn characters with pinyin just as kids in Taiwan learn characters with zhuyin, they drop using pinyin around the third grade so most children’s books do not have pinyin in them.) There is no pinyin taught since it’s for native speakers. The general idea is that students are taught the most common characters used in the Chinese language (for reading books, newspapers, etc.).

MLPP 4TH GRADE SIGHT WORDS LICENSE

I wonder if I could license it from them? Ma LiPIng Chinese CurriculumĪnyhow, Ma LiPing is in some ways, a total philosophy and way of life. Even with that in mind, I’m tempted to buy it and then “translate” into Traditional for my own sake. This is not ideal for people who have no background in Chinese and are learning as a second language.įrom my cursory examination and Googling, Ma LiPing sounds awesome and I wish it were available in Traditional Chinese. The MLP curriculum is best for children who are already fluent in Mandarin Chinese in that it is the heritage language of their family. Today’s post focuses on Ma LiPing (马立平), a person as well as a type of Chinese language curriculum she created for the Chinese American children of Chinese immigrants from Mainland China.

Mlpp 4th grade sight words