Comprehensive and Efficient Literacy 1 (Revised Edition)

"Learning Characters Through Poetry" Series

These poems, rich in the qualities of children's literature, are easy to recite and memorize, helping children firmly grasp character pronunciations. Through the scenarios depicted in the poems and the accompanying illustrations, children can gain a preliminary understanding of character meanings; thus, by reading, observing, and reflecting simultaneously, they connect a character's form, sound, and meaning.

Each poem introduces over ten key new characters; across the four-volume series, children encounter nearly 900 characters, enabling them to read independently, fostering a sense of achievement, and boosting their interest in reading.

The "Learning Characters Through Poetry: Practice" book introduces the origins, history, and formation characteristics of Chinese characters—as well as 39 radicals—through activities and games. By using known characters to introduce new ones, children further master character recognition techniques and enhance their self-learning abilities. After gaining a basic grasp of character formation principles (pictographs, simple ideographs, compound ideographs, phono-semantic compounds, derivative cognates, and phonetic loan characters) and structural layouts (top-bottom and left-right combinations), children benefit from repeated practice, which aids in recognizing and writing characters from memory while reducing the likelihood of making errors.