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Chinese Learning Activity - Story Prompt

Tell me a story… games to step up kids’ Chinese

希望我們在這裏分享的各種遊戲能帶給孩子學習的歡樂，也帶給你更多的家庭教學靈感。大家發到【講媽 ⦁ 講爸】Facebook 群組 的孩子學習照片為我們帶來很大的鼓舞。要是你還未加入我們的大家庭，那就要趕快去看看喔！

We hope you have been finding these activities and tips helpful and fun. We certainly have been enjoying your pictures and feedback in our Sagebooks HK Parent Support Facebook Group. If you haven’t checked us out there yet, please take a quick second to join!

As we mentioned in a previous post, you can use the art of storytelling to help your children learn vocabulary as well boost comprehension. The activities in this post are going to require your children to use many different types of skills, too. You may even find them similar in concept to the activities we created for the comics.

ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK

Most of these activities are geared towards taking the idea of a story and helping your children tell either their own stories or retell stories they’re familiar with.

ACTIVITIY 1 - Story Prompt Activity
(age 5+, single/multiple player)
WHAT YOU NEED 道具
  • Sheets of paper
  • Pen/Pencil
HOW TO MAKE 準備
  • You can use prompt lines or illustrations from the Basic Chinese 500 lessons.
  • Draw 2-6 lines for your kids to write a story.
HOW TO PLAY 玩法
  1. Read a short prompt (or ask your child a question). For example: What did you do in school today? Where do you want to go on summer vacation? Retell me the story of Cinderella.
  2. Depending on your child’s ability, ask them to write the story in their own words. If they don’t know a word, either ask them to write it in pinyin, or allow them to use your phone or a dictionary to see how to write it.
  3. When they’re done, have them read the story out loud.
ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO PLAY 玩法變化

視乎孩子的情況，你可以增加以下的活動：

Depending on the age of your child, you can increase or decrease the difficulty level of the activity by:

  1. The younger your child, the fewer sentences you require.
  2. To make it easier, you can provide a story they can retell. The more familiar it is, the easier it will be for them to retell.
  3. To make it easier, you can ask them a series of questions and have them answer them one by one to tell the story.
  4. To make it more difficult, you can provide only 1-3 word prompts instead of asking questions.
 
ACTIVITIY 2 - Story Book Activity
(age 4+, single/multiple player)
WHAT YOU NEED 道具
  • Sheets of paper with either pre-printed/drawn pictures (you can either copy or draw your own. You can also try to do it with the Bunny’s Adventure Comics.)
  • Pen/Pencil
HOW TO MAKE 準備
  • Optional: draw speech bubbles for each character in the panel
HOW TO PLAY 玩法
  1. Give your child all the sheets with pictures/illustrations.
  2. Ask your child to tell a story based on the illustrations and to write a sentence or two at the bottom of the picture.
  3. Staple all the pages together and have them read their “book” out loud to you.
ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO PLAY 玩法變化

視乎孩子的情況，你可以增加以下的活動：

Depending on the age of your child, you can increase or decrease the difficulty level of the activity by:

    1. To make the activity harder, you can include more scenic pictures vs illustrations with action.
    2. To make the activity easier, you can have very obvious actions in the pictures so that your child can simply tell you what is happening in the pictures.
    3. To make the activity easier, you can use fewer illustrations. To make it harder, add more illustrations.
    4. To make the activity easier, you can put the pictures in chronological order (or choose illustrations that can be put in chronological order) and have your child tell a story based on that.
    5. To make the activity harder, choose illustrations or pictures that have no discernible order and have your child make something up based on that.
    6. For multiple children, you can either have them write individual stories or have them write a story together.
ACTIVITIY 3 - Story Telling Activity
(age 3+, single/multiple player)
WHAT YOU NEED 道具
  • Story prompts or a story ideas
HOW TO MAKE 準備
  • Make sure you choose a story your child is familiar with, so that they feel comfortable re-telling it.
HOW TO PLAY 玩法
  1. Ask your child to tell you a story based on the prompts (eg: if the prompt is “dog,” have your child tell a story about a dog or has a dog in it) or re-tell you a story they’re familiar with (eg: Cinderella or Jack and the beanstalk).
ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO PLAY 玩法變化

視乎孩子的情況，你可以增加以下的活動：

Depending on the age of your child, you can increase or decrease the difficulty level of the activity by:

  1. To make the activity harder, you can add more prompts for your child to include in the story.
  2. To make the activity easier, you can have your child re-tell a story they know instead of creating their own story.
  3. To make the activity interactive (and potentially hilarious), you can have the children take turns telling ONE sentence of the story and have the kids build on each sentence.
 

我們希望能看到你的孩子做這些遊戲的照片或影片，也希望能聽到你的意見或提問。更歡迎加入我們的【講媽 ⦁ 講爸】Facebook 群組，我們等你喔~

We would love to hear your comments and see pictures of your kids doing the activities. Make sure you join our Sagebooks HK Parent Support Facebook Group and share with us!

HOMESCHOOLING TIPS

非故事的常識類圖書也可以作為故事來做練習喔。

比方說：某件物品的製造過程、某件用品的操作方法、名人的生平事跡、一些時事個案等，都可以作為「講故事」的練習。透過這些特定的題目，逐步引入一些專用名詞或名稱，可以加深孩子對我們這個世界的認識。

這些非故事類的內容，例如：醫學詞彙、國家名稱、名人的名字等，很多都與我們的日常生活息息相關，懂得了這些詞彙，可以增加孩子的自信心和整體的表現和競爭能力。相對來說：童話仙子之類的故事，雖然讀起來有趣，但在日常生活中能起的作用是很有限的。

Don’t forget: Nonfiction counts as stories, too.

How things are made, how things work, biographies, current events, and so many subjects can be told in story form. Use these more specific topics to introduce specialized terminology about the world we live in.

Why is nonfiction important? While learning about witches and dwarves and fairies might be more interesting, it’s a lot less useful in everyday life. Medical terms, country names, and even famous people – these are used a lot more in daily living and will prove to build confidence and competence in your children.

Like this tip? Join us in our Facebook Group and meet other parents who are teaching their kids Basic Chinese 500 at all different ages and levels.

Related Books

Learn Chinese for beginners Sage Formula Basic Chinese 500
Basic Chinese 500 基礎漢字500
Treasure Box 寶貝盒
中文學習工具︱兒童學習中文教材︱思展圖書 03
Study Cards 閱讀練習卡
【遊戲認讀卡 Game Cards】 簡介｜漢字認讀和遊戲｜思展圖書
Game Cards 遊戲認讀卡
Idioms in Comic 成語漫畫
Bunny's Adventures 兔寶寶奇遇

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