A quick child’s essay about two toy bears – a present from mom.
Category: Beginner
Essay: Watermelon
A young child’s thoughts and description of watermelon, their favorite fruit.
Essay: Setting Off Fireworks
A short first-person essay about a kid lighting firecrackers with his parents. I went back and forth on whether to classify this as “beginner” or “intermediate”. It’s easier than most of my intermediate stuff, but it’s got a tighter density of higher-level words than my beginner stuff. But it’s only a few sentences long. I […]
Essay: I Did Something for Mom
A sweet essay about a young child doing something nice for her mother.
Father and Son Don’t Get Along
Another super-simple and very short children’s joke.
Joke: The Desert
This is a very short beginner children’s joke.
A story about a young elephant who learns a valuable life lesson.
Cat Goes Fishing
A short story about an older cat teaching a younger cat a lesson as they fish together.
Mr. Wang Works at the University
Three Good Friends
A very simple story about three friendly butterflies who stick up for each other.
Feeling Sick
A passage from a BLCU textbook in which a university student laments about catching a cold.
Jiang Ping Going to Study Abroad
This short essay, taken from the Beijing Language and Culture University beginner comprehension textbook, is written from the perspective of a friend visiting Jiang Ping (江苹) before she leaves the country.
Little Bear Lived in a Mountain Cave
A very short children’s story about a bear’s search for a new home.