Transport your students into a world of vivid color, imagination, and fun as they learn Chinese with Step by Step! Teach language learning through content-based instruction in science, math, and social studies with Step by Step’s innovative series of graded readers for the K–2 classroom. Pedagogical alignment with ACTFL’s 5 C’s and the Common Core State Standards places Step by Step in a unique position to satisfy the curriculum goals of every elementary school Chinese program: from intensive immersion to casual exploration. Phase 2 introduce 31 essential vocabulary terms. All other stories build from this base, adding new vocabulary terms in each book. Once students have mastered the vocabulary in the Foundation stories, teachers can introduce any of the 10 cross-curricular themes-family, hygiene, nutrition, activity, plants, school, water, community, time, and math- to reinforce content learned in other subject areas. Each of the three readers in a theme introduces 5-13 new Chinese terms while recycling previously learned vocabulary. 31 books/set, Simplified Chinese characters, Pinyin, English