Daily 5 experience for Chinese/Mandarin?

[lorraine]

We are a Mandarin immersion school and will be starting to implement aspects of Daily Five. If your school has experience we'd love to get in touch! Especially interested in how to build independence in reading and writing since Chinese is character-based (all sight words). We'd also love to know if you've found any suitable Chinese story books or series for emergent readers.

Thank you!

[jelena]

We teach Arabic daily PreK-high school, and we would also like to use Daily 5/CAFE as an instructional format for that. Have you gotten your Chinese language teachers any Daily 5 PD? It is an awesome format for L2 as well, I think, but I'm sure many tweaks are necessary. We focus on oral language (perhaps a 70%/30% ratio speaking-listening vs reading-writing time-wise) in PK-5th grade, so that alone would require some changes. I don't have answers to your question, but would love to learn how you implement this and hope to share more ideas with you and other world language teachers!
Jelena

[lorraine]

Thanks for reaching out! I just went to the training in Orange County with three other teachers from our school. It was so helpful, and inspiring. Last year we didn't really have a curriculum or consistent approach for teaching Mandarin, so we're looking forward to trying out pieces of Daily Five as they fit. Starting with listening and speaking will be really important for us, too, and we didn't do enough of that last year.

Will stay in touch!