Basic Mandarin Characters

A comprehensive introductory unit for 8th-grade Spanish, focusing on global geography, essential communication, and rich cultural traditions through a 'Cultural Passport' lens.

A comprehensive program for teaching phonological awareness to secondary ELLs, focusing on multisyllabic academic vocabulary and phoneme manipulation.

A project-based sequence for 7th-grade students focusing on interpreting authentic Mandarin Chinese texts, including street signs, menus, stylized fonts, and digital interfaces. Students apply character recognition skills to real-world survival scenarios and create a final travel guide.

Students explore the origins of Chinese characters by connecting them to illustrations of the natural world. This inquiry-based sequence helps students visualize the evolution from ancient pictographs to modern Hanzi, focusing on high-frequency nature words like sun, moon, water, fire, tree, and mountain.

A foundational Mandarin Chinese sequence for Pre-K students focused on identifying family members. Students learn vocabulary for parents, siblings, and grandparents through interactive games, songs, and visual inquiry.

A high-intensity sequence designed for graduate students to achieve functional literacy in Mandarin Chinese through the top 100 high-frequency characters, focusing on sentence construction, grammatical particles, and digital input methods.