I opened a new section in my navigation called Chinese books review project. Here is the brief overview about that project:
10/25/24 – I’ve updated the project to be called Learning to Read Project.
Once you’re like me, who has entered this bilingual journey for a while, looking for suitable books for my kids to read has become an important task. My new hobby has been browsing Taiwan Amazon 博客來 when the kids go to sleep. Over the past 6–7 years, I’ve bought books I didn’t like or felt weren’t worth their price but there are also great books my kids used to practice their Chinese reading that hasn’t been shared by other bloggers.
If you’ve seen Taiwanese bridge/chapter books, you would find that the range of books is so vast that it’s hard to know which ones are suitable for my/your kids. There is also no guideline like leveled readers in the States that tells us what level these books should be. This is where this project below started. I want to see if I can create a comprehension guideline for books for our young readers. I broke down a few categories here that I always want to know (like font size). Hope you find this helpful. If there are any links that don’t work, please leave me a comment below.
| Word difficulty (1~3) | 3 means the word choices are very difficult. I rate this based on how many advanced phrases and idioms a book has. |
| # of pages (1-3) | 3 means the book is very thick and one will take more than 30 mins to read. |
| Font size (1-3) | 3 means the font is as big as the one in 亮亮的成長. |
| Line spacing (1-3) | 3 means the spacing is more than one finger. |
| Story engagement (1-3) | 3 means the story is so fun that kids can’t put down the book. |
| Pic-to-text ratio (1-3) | The ratio will use 100 as scale. The first number will be for picture and the second number will be for text. |
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