1．"New Stars Island" Graded Picture Book Series (Level One to Three)

 

Publisher: NTU-SCCL Press

Publication Date: August, 2017

        The stories in the "New Stars Island" Graded Picture Book Series are the winning entries of the "Creativity, No Boundaries!" National Children's Story Writing Competition held in 2016. Specially commissioned for preschool children and primary students in Singapore, this series comprises six levels, each level consisting of six books. The stories in level one and two are specially denoted with hanyu pinyin. As the difficulty level increases across the levels, parents and teachers can select suitable books according to their children's reading proficiency and learning progress.

        Every story in the "New Stars Island" is the fruit of labour by residents and students in Singapore. Packed with the authors' wondrous imagination and the illustrators' extraordinary creativity, this series promises to enthrall every child with its novelty. "New Stars Island" is suitable for both parent-child co-reading and children's self reading.

        Levels one to three have been published in August 2017 while levels four to six will be published in April 2018.

 

2. JCLE Issue 29

 

 

Publisher: NTU-SCCL Press & Singapore Chinese Teachers' Union

Publication Date: June, 2017

The Journal of Chinese Language Education (Issue 29) has been published in June, 2017. Please click here to read the latest issue. For archived issues, please click here.

 

3. Come, Let's Celebrate! Preschool Interactive Art Book (A & B)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author: Dr. Cheng Wan-Ni, Dr. Tan Chee Lay

Publisher: NTU-SCCL Press, 2017

        "Come, Let's Celebrate! Preschool Interactive Art Book", comprising two volumes, allows children to experience Singapore's festivals and cultures in interactive games. It contains reusable stickers for children to reenact scenes of festivals, like donning traditional costumes, eating festive food, visiting the homes of other ethnic groups, as well as travelling in Singapore. The books include 3D art materials for children, which can be a handy teaching tool for teachers and parents. The ready-made art works will ease the adults' burden of preparing art work materials. Parents can make use of the books together with their children to enhance parent-child relationship.

 

4. Come, Let's Celebrate! Preschool Teaching Activities and Evaluation for Festivals of Singapore

Author: Dr. Cheng Wan-Ni, Dr. Tan Chee Lay, Mdm Zheng Yingjiang

Publisher: NTU-SCCL Press, 2017

        "Come, Let's Celebrate! Preschool Teaching Activities and Evaluation for Festivals of Singapore" is written using the Tyler's objective-centered model to provide lesson examples related to festivals of Singapore's diverse ethnicities and cultures. It proposes a framework and approach to teaching activities related to such festivals. General knowledge and guiding values in early childhood education are embedded in the introductions of these festivals, and these are followed by accessible background reading and several suggested teaching activities. Early childhood teachers can modify and extend the activities of a specific festival for other festivals as well. To provide teachers with evaluation tools, each teaching activity also contains a suggested assessment based on different learning areas.

        This art book complements a set of teaching resources. Entitled "Come, Let's Celebrate! Preschool Teaching Resources for Festivals of Singapore", it contains teaching tools for the teaching of the thirteen important festivals celebrated in Singapore. The tools include six medium-sized backgrounds that could be used for classroom decorations, four larger-sized stage backdrops, and close to a hundred elements that could be used for story-telling, role-playing and language games.