New Practical Chinese Reader consists of three books,Textbook, Instructor's Manual and Learning Chinese Characters, tomeet the needs of both teachers and students of Chinese as a secondlanguage.Learning Chinese Characters is mainly designed for YOU, thestudents,to use for after-class practice. Each lesson has twoparts. In the first part,Learning Chinese Characters, somecharacter components are introduced, and then you are shown how thecomponents are combined to form characters in the text. Rules forconstructing and writing characters are also given to facilitatethe learning of Chinese characters. In the second part, WritingExercises, avariety of exercises are provided for you to practicewriting characters.