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ES Chinese: Grade 2

EMERGENT FOUNDATION

Unit:
  • All About Me
Essential Questions:
  • How do we use sentence patterns to organize ideas?
  • How do we introduce yourself in Chinese?
  • What are the differences of family member names between Chinese and English/your home language?
Unit:
  • Likes and Dislikes
Essential Questions:
  • How do you express your likes and dislikes in Chinese?
  • How do you use basic sentence structures to ask and answer questions about people’s likes and dislikes?
Unit:
  • Weather and Seasons
Essential Questions:
  • How do you describe different weather and seasons in Chinese?
  • Can you explain how the weather and season impact people’s daily life?
Unit:
  • Transportation
Essential Questions:
  • What are the forms of transportation in Chinese?
  • How does transportation connect people between different communities?

EMERGENT STANDARD

Unit:
  • Friendship
Essential Questions:
  • What do I want to know about my friends?
  • What do I want my friend to know about me?
  • How do I introduce a friend?
Unit:
  • Daily Routine
Essential Questions:
  • Can you describe what your day looks like?
  • What school subjects do you learn?
Unit:
  • House
Essential Questions:
  • How to compose planned oral texts with sequenced sentences and connected ideas to introduce houses?
  • What are the functions of different rooms?
Unit:
  • Family
Essential Questions:
  • How to explain detailed family information?
  • What roles does each family member play?

PROFICIENT

Unit:
  • Pinyin
Essential Questions:
  • What are the different components of Pinyin?
  • How do we use Pinyin to help us pronounce, read, and input Chinese characters?
Unit:
  • Chinese Characters
Essential Questions:
  • How have the Chinese characters evolved?
  • What are structures of Chinese characters?
  • What are the strategies that we can use to help recognize the characters? (Strokes, radicals, Pinyin)
Unit:
  • Learn to Read (recognition and read aloud)
Essential Questions:
  • Can you make a connection between the sound and characters?
  • When do we pause and use different tones to help us understand?
  • How do we read aloud by paying attention to the tones, voice, pace, and fluency to make us understood?
  • What kind of reading strategies can we use to decode the text?
Unit:
  • Learn to Write (characters, phrases, and sentences)
Essential Questions:
  • What are the rules of writing Chinese characters?
  • How do we balance the structure of the Chinese characters?
  • How do we construct phrases according to the meaning of Chinese characters?
  • How do we write a story according to pictures?
  • How do we recount the small moments in our daily life?
Unit:
  • Story
Essential Questions:
  • What are the story elements?
  • How do authors create plots to engage the readers?
  • Can you retell a story? What strategies do you use to help you organize?
  • Can you create a story by following the beginning, middle and end structure?

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