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Home About Us ---> About Shu Ren History of Program About Immersion Program About the Flagship Grant Financial Information Board Members Shu Ren Programs ---> Fundraising ---> T-Shirt Sales Dumpling Festival Gala China Research Residency ---> RR Scholarship 8th Grade CRR Blog What is it? Join Shu Ren Learning Tools for HOME ---> Online Printables/Flashcards ---> Kindergarten 1st Grade Chinese Resources Tips from Teachers Online English Tools School Community ---> Parent e-Community (listserv) Shu Ren Members Forum PTA Website Get Involved School Contacts Site Map Shu Ren Online Store Want to communicate with other parents? Click the button to join parent listservs	Tips for helping kids at home Help by exposing them to Chinese as much as possible. For example, find movies in Mandarin, or play audio CD stories, read, or play games created by Shu Ren for students, etc. Check their homework everyday. Ask them to read to you aloud even if you don't understand them. If they don't know all the words on their homework have the kids circle those words and let the teacher know where your child stands in their learning. Don't ask them to translate characters word for word for you. Often Chinese does not easily translate directly to english. Pay attention to what they have learned before. Keep their homework and school assignments that are sent home. Use them to review with them. Give them a chance to practice whenever possible. One idea for this is to have a binder for the year and a three hole punch. When they bring their school work home to keep, use the three hole punch on their vocabulary schoolwork and keep it in the binder. Use this to review for tests or over the summer. If you speak Chinese (any dialect), speak with them and read to them. If not, ask them to summarize English stories in Chinese for you. Have them read Chinese to you, maybe teach you a few key words each time. If your child plays with other children who can speak Mandarin, ask them to use Chinese whenever possible.

Tips for helping kids at home

Help by exposing them to Chinese as much as possible. For example, find movies in Mandarin, or play audio CD stories, read, or play games created by Shu Ren for students, etc.
Check their homework everyday. Ask them to read to you aloud even if you don't understand them. If they don't know all the words on their homework have the kids circle those words and let the teacher know where your child stands in their learning.
Don't ask them to translate characters word for word for you. Often Chinese does not easily translate directly to english.
Pay attention to what they have learned before. Keep their homework and school assignments that are sent home. Use them to review with them. Give them a chance to practice whenever possible.
One idea for this is to have a binder for the year and a three hole punch. When they bring their school work home to keep, use the three hole punch on their vocabulary schoolwork and keep it in the binder. Use this to review for tests or over the summer.
If you speak Chinese (any dialect), speak with them and read to them. If not, ask them to summarize English stories in Chinese for you. Have them read Chinese to you, maybe teach you a few key words each time.
If your child plays with other children who can speak Mandarin, ask them to use Chinese whenever possible.