Population: 0-12 years old
Recommended for: 3-6 years old
The name Anne Flower Reading Library may sound more like a library, but it's actually an English language education institution for children. Headquartered in Beijing, Anne has become a leading reading brand in China after more than eight years of development, and has won the awards of "2017 Influential Foreign Language Education", "2017 Influential Children's Education Brand" by Tencent, "2017 Influential Foreign Language Training Brand" by NetEase, "2017 China Brand Value Children's English Institution" by Sina, and "2017 Influential Children's English Institution by Word-of-Mouth" by Xinhuanet.
The founders of the Anne Flowers Reading Center are a returnee couple, who jointly set up a blog under the name of "Anne Flowers" to share their exchange experiences with foreign teachers and their thoughts on the differences between Chinese and foreign English learning. They are experts of the national "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" education and scientific research key planning research group, and have won the "2017 China Education Industry Outstanding Contribution Award" by Sina, the "2017 Outstanding Contribution to Education Award" by Xinhuanet, and the "2016 Outstanding Contribution to Education Award" by NetEase. His series of textbooks "Can't Miss English Enlightenment - English Roadmap for Chinese Children" and "Anne Flower English Phonics and Reading" are very popular among Chinese children's English enlightenment books.
Compared with other children's English training institutions, the reading library is a relatively niche existence. The founder introduced the North American library school model, insisting on using the original picture books to guide children to speak authentic English, and its concept is to learn English in the way of their mother tongue. The curriculum is also divided into four stages according to age, including early education classes for 0-3 years old, ear grinding classes for 3-5 years old, natural spelling classes for 5-9 years old, and all-subject courses for 9-12 years old. The ear grinding course is a special course of the Anne Flower Reading Center, which takes ear grinding as the main line, integrates listening and speaking, picture book reading and thinking training, and focuses on the development of listening and pronunciation, comprehension and fluent reading, oral communication, etc., with the aim of enabling young children to use the rules of language acquisition to carry out the all-round development of bilingual thinking. The phonics curriculum is taught in the same way as other institutions, training children's phonics skills. The textbooks are all independently developed by the institution, mainly including "Phonics" and "Grinding My English Ear".
In addition, the Anne Flower Reading Library has a wealth of original picture books, and children studying here can borrow books in the library at any time, which is a great highlight for children's English enlightenment. However, mother-tongue English teaching is more suitable for younger children. There are 3 reading halls in Shenzhen, and the teachers in the library are uniformly dressed, and they are very gentle and careful, and the books in the library are rich. Parents who are interested in picture book English enlightenment may wish to take their children to try out the course, which costs about 15,000-20,000 yuan.
