MS Spanish Guide

SPANISH LEVEL 1

UNIT 6 REVIEW UNITS 1-5

PACING

PROFICIENCY LEVEL

RESOURCE(S)

KEY LANGUAGE USE(S)

● Entre Culturas ● Realidades 1

2-3 weeks

Novice Mid

INFORM

ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S)

CULTURAL CONNECTION(S)

Review some of the main themes throughout the course. For example: ● How do languages allow people to communicate? ● How can learning a foreign language enrich life? ● How can your current communication skills help you learn a new language? ● How will I go about having a conversation with a native Spanish speaker? ● What can I do to sound more like a native Spanish speaker? ● How can I improve my Spanish skills in listening, speaking and writing? END OF UNIT COMPETENCY WITH LANGUAGE EXPECTATIONS ● myself/others ● things ● my school day ● pastimes ● food, family, home

● What is a culture? How are language and culture related? ● How does understanding of culture help me learn that culture's language? ● How do culture and language affect one another? ● Why is it valuable to understand other cultures? ● What values are central to the culture of Spanish speaking countries? ● What is different about Spanish culture compared to my own?

● getting around town, celebrations SCAFFOLDING IN ACTION

● Use a variety of visuals with captions to de fi ne meaning of words and phrases. ● Use a graphic organizer to differentiate vocabulary, phrases, & images for students to make associations between objects & vocabulary. ● Use Total Physical Response to review new vocabulary. ● Pair with partners to practice conversation/group students to allow opportunity for them to practice speaking. Before assigning students a conversation, model the conversation, and provide sentence frames or sentence starters. ● Use gestures and oral repetition of key phrases and words in multiple contexts. ● Engage the student in more student-teacher conversation in Spanish aside from regularly planned activities or group the student with other advanced learners who are ready for more challenging dialogue. Provide opportunities for more conversation with fl uent speakers via Zoom or Google Meet. ● Interview or survey other students or bilingual individuals outside of class about a chosen topic in Spanish, then present their fi ndings to the class. ● Provide more complex text in Spanish for students to read. ● Students can build and categorize word lists (eg. synonyms, antonyms). ● Have students record themselves speaking the language and re fl ect on their progress. ● Students can practice translating from English to Spanish in speech or writing.

Skill Building

Extension

*Updated 7.12.23