chinese language arts middle school - 5 th grade
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Chinese Language Arts
Middle School - 5th Grade
Teachers
Bo LiuLiu Laoshi
Lu YangYang Laoshi
Ying LiLi Laoshi
5th Grade Language Goal
Intermediate – Mid
Understand and provide sentence – length short speech and writing about basic personal and social information.
In Middle School, not all the courses are taught in Chinese. So how can we
achieve the language goal?
Learn in classroom
Practice outside classroom
Perform
in real
world
Some Features About Curriculum• Use ACTFL Language Proficiency Standards
and Core Knowledge as the guidelines
• Use Singapore Chinese textbooks; adopt texts from China’s middle school Chinese textbooks; develop own texts for our Yinghua students.
• One level higher than the language goal
Assessment
In Class Assessments:• Informal: answering
questions, dictations• Formal: unit test,
term test
Beyond Class Assessments:• Speech Contest• Dictionary Contest• Chinese New Year
Performance• Academic
Performance
Next week, based on...• 4th grade end-of-year exam score•4th grade teachers’ recommendations•Two placement tests in 5th grade•Each student’s classroom behaviors and adademic
performance
..., We will group students into three proficiency – based CLA classes.
Proficiency level based classes
• Difference pace, same goal
• Apply different teaching methods to meet
different learning styles and needs
• There is no ceiling for the advanced students
•Will be adjusted base on students’ learning
progress
CLA Class Rules and Expectations
• Bring learning materials to class (Chinese notebook,
unit packet, planner, pencil box, water bottle)
• Participate in class actively and positively
• Be respectful and responsible
• Be on time: get to class & homework (Homework is
expected to be finished within 20-40 minutes every
day.)
Communication• Email: bo.liu
@yinghuaacademy.org
• Phone call: 612-788-9095
• Classroom page (twenty1516)
• Parent – teacher Conference
• School Newsletter
You can help with…
• Checking your child’s planner, homework, and projects• Clarify the reason and goal of learning
Chinese• Be your child’s cheerleader!
After 8th Grade? Online Immersion!
•Advanced Chinese 1•Advanced Chinese 2•Subject area Chinese
•AP Chinese
Language SkillsHigh Level Thinking Skills
Questions?