Daily Reading Comp. #4: "Ancient and Modern Chinese Characters"

the topic of each section

a list of important Chinese characters

important events in the development of how Chinese characters changed

how Chinese characters changed

Animal bones were used for writing.

There were once more than 2,500 characters.

The ancient Chinese wrote symbols and characters on bones and turtle shells.

Most of the characters from 2,200 years ago can still be read today.

Modern Chinese characters are nothing like those used in ancient China.

Modern Chinese characters were developed from symbols used in ancient China.

Chinese writing uses an alphabet.

Few people in ancient China could

"Provinces in China"

"The Language of Singapore"

"Twentieth-century Changes"

"A Language for Everyone"