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?