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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of rising first grader (jumbo class). We're getting to a point in my child's YY experience where I worry that my & my husband's lack of Chinese language knowledge is hurting his educational experience. He's supposed to spend 10 minutes a night reading in Chinese. The school provides books at his level, but they just don't interest him. [b]If I knew the language, I could find different books on the topics that interest him. But as things are, I'm not able to help him out.[/b]We came to YY because we're very interested in bilingual education, and it's the only bilingual school where we got a spot. We had an opportunity to leave last fall for another school, and didn't take it. We're still committed to the school, but our role as parents is even harder than I'd expected.[/quote]

Huh?  Why not just bring a laptop or tablet to school to meet with a teacher and ask her to help you order books your boy might be interested in from a web site for kids studying Chinese, like ChinaSprout?  We often use that site to get Mandarin DVDs, posters, flash cards etc.  Or ask a parent who reads Chinese to help you order books.

I speak a dialect but can hardly read Chinese.  My in-laws get on various web sites and order for me, particularly from YesAsia.com and AsiaParent.com.  We've built a good collection of Mandarin DVDs, mostly Disney and Pixar cartoons popular in China (e.g. Mulan, Ice Age, Kung Fu Panda) from the several sites.  We don't let our kid watch TV or DVDs in English.
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Sorry, that should have been outside the quote: A little new an far from all of to this but I wonder: How does fluency (reading, writing, spelling) in English come about at an immersion school? Do parents hire tutors to keep up with that? I mean after all, children will be applying to colleges in the US? Or are parents just hoping this all falls into place by middle school?
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