Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know: how to:
- interpret audio and visual documents in the target language
- identify key information and details from the target language materials
- explain how the target language is connected to other content areas through geography, history, etc.
- recognize basic products of the target language culture.
Skills
Novice High Level
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
- identify the key idea presented by a speaker or published work on a familiar topic.
- differentiate between questions and statements.
- gather basic information from graphs, charts and pictures.
- rely on background knowledge to aid in comprehension of difficult or new words.
- recognize characters and punctuation marks that are unique to the target language.
Students are able to:
- identify patterns in the contruction of past tense verbs and how this impacts meaning of texts.
- how to recognize and use descriptors in basic conversations
- restate key information.
- use cognates to assist in comprehension of target language materials.
Understanding
Students understand that:
Novice High Level
Intermediate Low Level
Novice High Level
- effective communication requires knowing how when and why to say what to whom.
- the purpose of language study is to communicate so one can understand others and be understood.
- other understandings will depend on the theme being taught.
Intermediate Low Level
- effective communication requires knowing how when and why to say what to whom.
- the purpose of language study is to communicate so one can understand others and be understood.
- other understandings will depend on the theme being taught.
