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This week’s Parent Spotlight is MBA.
She has three children and she didn’t have the Sagebooks curriculum available for her older two kids. They all attend a Mandarin Immersion school and the curriculum have been a good way for MBA to provide additional practice as well as exposure to Traditional characters (their school teaches Simplified) to her son. She also uses the books as readers to help her youngest with English.
I am an ABC with decent conversational Mandarin and can read/write at a 1st grade level. My husband speaks Cantonese and limited Mandarin.
We have 3 children all in a Mandarin Immersion school, 13 yo girl, 9 yo girl, and 6 yo boy.
13-year-old dughter (N/A)
9-year-old daughter (N/A)
6-year-old son (started: ~5 years old; currently: in the middle of the series)
I have read such great things about Sagebooks and was fortunate to be given a set.
I am using the books with 6yo/1st grade son who is currently enrolled in a Mandarin Immersion program.
I do not have a set lesson or discipline when using Sagebooks. I use them more as a supplement and additional support for what he learns in his MI program. The vocabulary is on par with what his is learning. We use them predominantly as bedtime reading and do not do them in any specific order.
There are quite a few things I like about Sagebooks:
Personally, I prefer my children learn both Simplified and Traditional. My son learns Simplified in school and I use the Traditional Sagebooks. It has been a great tool for him to learn the traditional counterpart to characters he learns in simplified at school. Reading through the books piques his interest in the relationship between the characters and how they are simplified.
I appreciate the English alongside the Chinese. My son’s MI program is 90/10, so he gets very limited English. His spoken English is good, but I like that we read the Chinese sentence and then the English sentence. He knows more written vocabulary in Chinese, and he can think of the English word in his mind and this helps his English reading.
– The short sentences and repetitive vocabulary encourage fluency and boost his self-confidence.
This is actually my 3rd child, and I don’t plan to have more. It is not in me to be the main teacher of Chinese for my children, but I enjoy these as a supplement.
I did not have Sagebooks for my older two children. Their only exposure is reading them with their little brother. #1 does not enjoy them at all as I suspect they are too remedial for her level and have limited plot. #2 will opt to read these when asked to read Chinese books. I suspect because they are easy for her.
Thank you so much for taking the time to respond, MBA!
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Sagebooks Hongkong promotes independent reading and life-long learning by nurturing the child’s confidence, autonomy, self-teaching abilities and mental health. Since 2006.
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