"It also hides the phenomenon that children are keen to learn Chinese Pinyin before entering primary school." Teacher Deng Zichang said that the current "second-phase curriculum reform" in Shanghai has changed the previous practice of learning Chinese from the pinyin letters of "A, O, E, I, B, P, M and F", but adopted the teaching method of learning Chinese characters earlier than Pinyin, learning "I, you, day, month, water, fire" and so on. At present, there are 353 Chinese characters to be learned in the first semester of senior one, and the literacy is twice that of the same textbook in the "one-phase curriculum reform". It takes about 8 to 10 weeks to learn pinyin, and at this time I have taught 170 Chinese characters. Therefore, some impatient parents and "kind-hearted" kindergartens teach pinyin before their children enter school.

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Although the teaching method in Shanghai is likely to lead kindergartens to intervene in the teaching content of primary schools prematurely, Mr. Xu Genrong, editor-in-chief of the Chinese textbook for primary schools in the second phase of curriculum reform in this city, still believes that the synchronous teaching of Chinese characters and Pinyin is a relatively advanced teaching method, which can avoid the boredom and monotony brought by the simple learning of Pinyin for first-year students. Even though they have learned Pinyin letters and spelling rules, they still don't know Chinese characters. Xu teacher said that the current pinyin teaching is basically the same in system and order except that the time of recognizing Chinese characters is advanced, so that children can quickly master more Chinese characters after entering primary school, which is of great help to improve their reading ability and interest, and is more conducive to improving the Chinese learning ability of primary school students in the long run.

Teacher Xu Genrong is critical of teaching Pinyin in kindergartens. "Children's first cognition is very important. Some children learn pinyin in early childhood classes, and their pronunciation and spelling are not accurate. I have to correct it again when I get to primary school, but haste makes waste. "