Chinese Reading and Writing 1 & 2 are content rich textbooks. The objective is to help students become familiar with Chinese texts as early as possible, and develop good reading and writing skills as early as possible.

Starting from strokes and stroke orders, these two books teach 120 Chinese characters, 316 words and expressions, and 10 grammar points. 

To help students have a better control at their learning process and also to enable students to do self-study, 37 video lessons have been produced. These video lessons cover:

• How to read and write Chinese characters
• Meanings of Chinese characters
• Meanings of words and combinations
• How to pick out words in sentences
• Grammar explanations

These video lessons can be accessed by scanning the QR codes imbedded on the book pages, or can be watched here.

Chinese Reading and Writing 1 & 2 are also exercise rich textbooks. The exercise sections of the two books include a total of 312 sentences, 25 conversations and 10 narratives. 

These essential no-nonsense trainings on how to these 120 characters will equip students with fundamental knowledge of how Chinese characters function in the text, and open a path for them to build solid Chinese reading and writing skills efficiently and effectively.

Understanding each exercise is a small win, and completing a book is big win.

Also, each Chinese Reading and Writing book has corresponding worksheets, providing targeted reading and writing exercises in various forms. Some exercises focus on practicing Chinese words, some on sentences, and some on paragraphs and stories.

All worksheets are in PDF format.

Chinese Learning Pen is an accompanied audio tool that plays any part of the text at will and at ease. It accelerates the character recognition process, helps students become familiar with native speech patterns, and improves students’ pronunciations. 

Chinese Learning Pen adds an interactive dimension to the textbooks, and greatly enhances students’ learning outcomes. 

It is the perfect tool for studying Chinese Reading and Writing textbooks.

Follow the self-study guide to achieve the best learning result: How to self-study Chinese characters and go beyond.