In recent years, heritage learners of Mandarin Chinese have become a focus in the field of CFL.  Most heritage learners commonly have a strong tendency of improving their reading and writing performances within a short period of time. According to various research, in spite of the heritage learners’ strength with respect to listening and speaking skills, the home background of these learners in fact has little or no effect on their learning in the areas of writing or reading comprehension. Therefore, at the advanced beginning level, instructors have to conduct remediation of characters learning and basic syntax. For the intermediate leve, how do the instructors facilitate Chinese heritage language learners to achieve higher literacy? In this presentation, Mr. Zhou will share some effective teaching methods that he applied in his intermediate heritage language class under the scope of strategies, skills and understandings to improve students' Chinese reading and writing skills.