Primary School Student Standard Sentence Dictionary

Author: Wu Pu-hua
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: Language is to us what air and water are—our means of survival. Swimming in the "ocean" of language is our very state of being. If sunlight, air, food, and water enable us to grow physically, then our spiritual world grows through language. At the age of six, when we enter primary school, teachers teach us to recognize characters, and gradually we learn to match language with text. Our listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills develop in sync. As you navigate the "ocean" of language and characters, you become increasingly adept and comfortable. When you encounter difficulties, you can find a reliable tool—the dictionary and thesaurus. Only those who know how to use dictionaries and thesauruses can become proactive and independent learners of language and characters. By finding the true "ocean of language," you also find its "source." Only then can you become an active participant in learning Chinese and the master of language and characters. The newly formulated "Full-time Compulsory Education Curriculum Standards" state: "Students in first and second grades should be able to use phonetic order and radical lookup methods to find words in dictionaries and learn to recognize characters independently." "Students in third and fourth grades should be able to use dictionaries and thesauruses and develop preliminary independent recognition skills for characters." "Students in fifth and sixth grades should be able to use thesauruses to read and understand the appropriate meanings of words in context, as well as distinguish the emotional connotations of words." It is clear how important dictionaries and thesauruses are in primary school students' Chinese learning.