By completing the course, teachers will
1. Understand the basic information about how L2 learners learn to read Chinese characters.
2. Master the key methods and principles of designing practices for pupils learning to read Chinese Phonograms.
3. Get full access to the resources of activity design.

Contents:
1. Basics about Phonograms
2. How Chinese L2 learners learn to read characters
2.1 Orthographic knowledge
2.2 Learning to read Chinese characters
2.3 How Singaporean pupils learn to read phonograms
3. Practices for learning to read phonograms (characters and words)
4. Practices for learning to read phonograms (simple passages)
5. Hands-on and discussion

This course will introduce the resources and methods of designing practices for learning to read Chinese Phonograms (reading characters with phonetic clues).