The main purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of the different teaching programs for the elementary students. An experimental instruction was designed to obtain the relative information and the SPSS software was used to analysis the collected data. Three different teaching programs were designed and included in this experimental approach of this research. The first one was a traditional teaching method of Chinese characters of called Zhu-Yin-Fu-Hau group. In this program, the symbols of Zhu-Yin-Fu-Hau were used as the assistant tools when teaching the Chinese characters to the children. The second one was a non-Zhu-Yin-Fu-Hau group. Chinese characters were taught to children directly without the assistant of the Zhu-Yin-Fu-Hau or any other assistant knowledge in this program. The third one was called orthographic knowledge group. The caracter structure or orthographic knowledge was used as the important assistant tool in the teaching procedure of Chinese characters. Three sseond grade classes in an elementary school were be selected in the beginning and then distributed to three different programs in a random. Here, a pretest was specially designed and compiled for obtaining 60 Chisese characters. Several experts were invited to offer their opinions for improving the teaching program. It is an eight weeks experimental teaching program and two sections per class every week. The learning effects of each group were then measured by several tests. To fully understand the effects of the related factors in this research, the collected experimental data was analyzed using SPSS statistical software. In grneral, the results showed that the orthographic knowledge group received higher score than the Zhu-Yin-Fu-Hau group on the reproduce test and the word recognition test. However, there was no any significant difference between the orthographic-knowledge group and the non Zhu-Yin-Fu-Hau group. This implied that the knowledge about orthography can help children learn Chinese characters effectively.