Author: Elizabeth Weise

This is the district where Mandarin immersion has been  popular among parents, enough that half of the students in Cherokee Elementary are in the program. However  parents who did not chose the program  called it elitist and unfair. Clearly they won the day. The district announced on Feb. 27th that there will be no incoming…

Language Immersion Schools picked for project to diversify leadership Photograph by Bill Zurheide Local charter joins ‘Network Accelerator’   Kindergarten students interact at the St. Louis Language Immersion Schools’ Spanish School. Posted: Thursday, February 27, 2014 12:05 am By American staff Saint Louis Language Immersion Schools has been selected for the inaugural cohort for the Charter…

The Mandarin Matrix is a set of Chinese readers previously published as Primary Mandarin. They come from Hong Kong and consist of a series of books: •         An Interactive Online Classroom with over 1000 activities and games •         240 Chinese Readers ranging from beginner to advanced, organized into a six-color coded system •         48 Big…

eGlobalReader http://www.eglobalreader.com This site offers books in Chinese that can toggle between characters, pinyin and English. They only have eight books so far but plan to expand.

I’ve created a new tab on the blog, 2014 Mandarin language summer camps. You can see it above or click here.  If you know of camps which aren’t listed here, please send me information about them.

By Lelan Miller 孟樂嵐 Heather Clydesdale of the Asia Society has an article online “To Grow Good Writers, Feed them Great Literature”. Literature based reading and writing instruction is commonly utilized in English language programming throughout elementary and middle schools. This article discusses how to find great literature that can be used in Chinese immersion…

  A new Intergenerational school and an immersion school in Mandarin and Spanish planned for Cleveland Nancy Szilagyi, a teacher at the Near West Intergenerational School, gives students Madeline Schmidt, 6, left, and Farrah Albritton, 8, some feedback on the stories they wrote and advice on how they might be improved. Lynn Ischay, The Plain…