Chinese Reading Playground is reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar!
This classic story highlights days of the week and fruit. After reading this book, there are many playful literacy activities you can do to bring this story alive. You can find the collection of The Very Hungry Caterpillar Book activity printables at the end of this post.
Miss Panda is reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar Chinese edition today!
Book Title: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Author: Eric Carl
Language: Chinese edition.
Audio: Follow the eating adventures of the “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” – in Mandarin Chinese with Miss Panda.
Pinyin Support: Download The Very Hungry Caterpillar pinyin support to go with the book and read along!
Learning Topic: This is a language-rich book involving days of the week, fruits, and commonly-used Chinese expressions.
Early Literacy starts with singing, sight words, phrases, short sentences and stories.
Every time you read to your child you are providing lagnauge input.
Every time you listen to a story in Chinese you are giving your child the Chinese language input. Every time you say a chinese word, a Chinese phrase, or a Chinese sentnece to your little one that is the target language input.
You don’t wait unitil your child can read then you read a story to her. You read to your child when she is not talking yet and you just keep reading.
Why? That is how children learn a language. They hear you. They hear the people around her speaking a languag, two languages or more.
Their powerful brain processes it and after a year or so you hear the most beautiful output in the world – the baby’s first word!
Does this happen to a new language or a second language? Yes. Absolutely!
What goes in has a lot to do with what comes out. If there is no Chinese input there will be no Chinese output. This applies to all languages.
It might take you several weeks to read The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Chinese edition) with your little one but it can be a rewarding experience.
Did I mention that I have read the Chinese edition of The Very Hungry Caterpillar book over 200,000 times? I read it for kids on YouTube, that is what I mean. Have you watched it and listened to it with your child?
Have a phisical book, watch the reading video, listen to it, have the word cards in place – play and learn! Follow me, and let’s go!
Chinese Reading Playground resource: free Printable download.
1. Eric Carl “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” coloring page
2. Kizclub.com “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” story props with caterpillar, cocoon, butterfly, and food items click to download the file color version or black and white version.
3. Chinese Word Cards that go with the book and the above printable set.
There are 6 versions for your to choose from. Comprehensible Input is important so you and your child can refer to the meaning of each card.
Take advantage of the support of pinyin and English in the Chinese-Pinyin-English versions.
(1) Word Cards The Very Hungry Caterpillar TPE Traditional Chinese-Pinyin-English version
(2) Word Cards The Very Hungry Caterpillar TP Traditional Chinese -Pinyin version
(3) Word Cards The Very Hungry Caterpillar T Traditional Chinese only version
(4) Word Cards The Very Hungry Caterpillar SPE Simplified Chinese-Pinyin-English version
(5) Word Cards The Very Hungry Caterpillar SP Simplified Chinese-Pinyin version
(6) Word Cards The Very Hungry Caterpillar S Simplified Chinese only version
Printable Images: courtesy of Eric Carl official website and Kizclub.com
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Thank you for this wonderful reading of one of my favourite books!
It is one of my favorite books, too! Thank you!
Really enjoyed watching this! I also like how the book has holes in it, as if the caterpillar ate through it!
We’ve just posted it to our facebook page, because I believe its great for kids and parents learning Mandarin.
This is such a great book for children. It is a creative learning tool at home and beyond. Thank you!
Heen hao! Thank you – liked the English reading translation pages from the actual book! Have you done a reading of the 7 Chinese Sisters or the Five Chinese Brothers? I know they’re not “real Chinese” but my kids would enjoy it, Thanks!
This is such a great resource! Thank you for putting it together. We are starting Mandarin with our kindergartner this fall. I printed off the word cards and shapes so we can retell the story / act it out. As I was matching up word cards to the cut out shapes, I discovered an error on the word cards. In the English version of the story, there are 5 oranges. The word cards don’t have the word for orange, but have the word for donut. I guess the round orange with a caterpillar bite in the middle looks like a donut! Is the word in the Chinese version “orange” or “donut”?
Sarah, Thank you for your note. I am excited for you and your kindergartner! I hope you find the resource here helpful and playful. Thanks for the correction and the files have been updated. Much appreciation! ~Amanda Miss Panda