BlendEd Learning Best Practices - En Mi Familia
Unit Title: En Mi Familia
In this unit, students will be able identify and describe their family members and other families. They will be able to apply this knowledge through writing and speaking activities.
Content Area Skill:
Skill #1: Reading, Writing, and Listening in Spanish
Skill #2: Sweet 16 vocabulary words
Skill #2: Cognates
Digital Age Skill(s):
Skill #1: Empowered Learner
Skill #2: Creative Communicator
Duration of Unit:
Approximately 3.5 weeks
Overview of Unit:
In this unit, students will be able to identify and describe their family members and other families. They will be able to apply this knowledge through writing and speaking activities.
Empower Learners:
Content Area Skills (NE and ISTE Standards):
Goal 1: Communicate in Other Languages than English
- Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
- Standard 1.2: Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics.
- Standard 1.3: Students convey information, concepts, and ideas to listeners and readers for a variety of purposes.
Goal 4: Develop Insight into the Nature of Language and Culture
- Standard 4.1: Students recognize that different languages use different patterns to communicate and can apply this knowledge to their own language.
Goal 5: Participate in Multilingual Communities at Home and Around the World
- Standard 5.1: Apply language skills and cultural knowledge within and beyond the school setting.
Student Friendly Objectives:
- I can give a description using simple phrases about my family.
- I can state likes and dislikes.
- I can read and identify people based upon descriptions.
- I can take notes and understand the information based upon a short video about a family.
- I can write a description about my family and someone else’s family using simple sentences and phrases.
- I can ask questions and make statements about family.
- I can answer questions about my family.
- I can identify family terms and vocabulary used in a conversation, video or reading.
Empower Learner Activity:
Detailed Description:
Students preview the information by engaging in Quizlet on their own first before we previewed the content as a class using Quizlet Live.
- Link to Empower Learner Activity: Quizlet
Students were given a paper copy of the goal-setting document and asked to set a daily goal for the class period for what they will accomplish.
- Link to Empower Learner Activity: Goal Setting Document
Knowledge Application:
Artifact Profile (Formative):
Title of the Artifact: En Mi Familila
En Mi Familia...Example (Due to the privacy of the student, the audio is only available.)
Detailed Description:
Students created their own video recording about their family in Spanish using iPads and or cellphones in class.
Content Area Skills Addressed:
Standards 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, 5.1
Digital Age Skills
Empowered Learner
1a Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
Empowered Learner
1c Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
Empowered Learner
1d Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
Creative Communicator
6a Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
Artifact Profile (Summative):
Title of the Artifact:
10 Minute Free Write Layout Example
Detailed Description:
After multiple days of CI instruction (daily and/or weekly), Choice Board Activities, and Los Parecidos Storytelling activities, students were given a prompt, “Describe My Family” or “Describe A Friend’s Family.” Students then had to complete a free write in 10 minutes to address either or both topics. In that period of time, students were not allowed to use their notes nor other resources to complete the task. This Free Write idea is from Tina Hargaden.
Content Area Skills Addressed:
Standards 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, 5.1
Digital Age Skills
Empowered Learner
1a Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
Empowered Learner
1c Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
Empowered Learner
1d Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
Creative Communicator
6a Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
Link to Rubric
Knowledge Deepening:
Detailed Description:
During Knowledge Deepening, the Content Area Skills required of the Learning Artifact are broken down into bite-sized tasks. A key goal is to provide some degree of choice over how students practice Content Area Skills.
Tasks
Task 1: Translate Column on the Choice Board
Description: Students will practice new and old vocabulary terms related to family in addition to mastering the vocabulary with a variety of online resources. | ||
Must Do’s: Complete two tasks in the translate column. | May Do’s: Complete all three tasks in the translate column. | Resources: |
Task 2: Write Column on the Choice Board
Description: Students will write descriptions and short stories about families with a variety of online resources. | ||
Must Do’s: Complete two tasks in the write column. | May Do’s: Complete all three tasks in the write column. | Resources: |
Task 3: Speak Column on the Choice Board
Description: Students will talk about their family and other people’s families with a variety of online resources. | ||
Must Do’s: Complete two tasks in the speak column. | May Do’s: Complete all three tasks in the speak column. | Resources: |
Direct Instruction:
Detailed Description
Direct Instruction scaffolds the learning process for all students. A key goal is to incorporate BlendEd strategies to effectively differentiate instruction in order to maximize learning.
Learning Path:
The daily routine each day before the lesson begins consists of: Bellwork and Calendar (date, weather and activities), 40 minutes of direct instruction and 40 minutes of individual work time to deepen knowledge and skills about family. Although this unit is based on a block schedule, all activities and time frames can be adjusted.
| Day # | Description | BlendEd Model | Resources |
| 1 | Self Assess (Quizlet), Create family card (students draw an image of their family or a different family and identify / write down family members in Spanish), Class Discussion, Write and Discuss, Quick Quiz over student’s family talked about in class | Comprehensible input instruction paired with both whole class discussions and individual student assessments. Learners also had access to a video resource and an audio resource that I created to teach and reteach the story. | |
| 2 | Discuss two students’ cards about their family, write and discuss, take a quick quiz over the information. | ||
| 3-7 8-14 15 | Introduction to the story “Los Parecidos.” Students will choose preferred learning stations (teacher instruction, text, audio, or video), then answer questions about the text with comprehension questions, discuss as a class, write on the board/on their papers and then take a quiz over the information. Discuss two students’ cards about their family, write and discuss on board, take a quick quiz over the information. Introduction to Choice Board about La Familia. Students will set goals with goal setting sheet, and begin working on Choice Board. Complete a 10 minute timed write about their family or other families. 15 | Story Title: Los Parecidos (The Similarities) *Story was divided into four parts - see below Link to Video Content: Parte 1: http://bit.ly/Parecidos1 Parte 2: http://bit.ly/LosParecidos2 Parte 3: http://bit.ly/3Parecidos Parte 4: http://bit.ly/P4recidos |
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Resources:
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