This OER Student self- assessment was created by Liz Martinez, Kelleen RoseBaugh, and Chloé Reinwald  and as part of the 2024 World Language OER Summer work and training. Educators worked with Chrystal Liu, Nick Ziegler and Dorann Avey to create OER Learning Plans and materials. The attached self-assessment is designed for 9 - 12 World Language Arts teachers for Novice Learners of Spanish. Students will use the same self-assessment assignment at the beginning and end of the Unit This self-assessment addresses the following NDE World Language Standard(s): NE.WL.3.1.C NE.WL.3.1.D NE.WL.5.1.C NE.WL.5.1.D NE.WL.5.2.C NE.WL.5.2.D It is expected that this self-assessment will take students 10-20 minutes to complete.

An online pedagogical reference grammar of the French language that combines authoritative grammar explanations, self-correcting exercises and online audio with surreal dialogues and cartoon images.

Overview:  This OER: Understanding Fairytales with a Graphic Organizer was created by Stephanie Werner and as part of the 2024 World Language OER Summer work and training. Educators worked with Chrystal Liu, Nick Ziegler and Dorann Avey to create OER Learning Plans and materials. The attached Lesson Plan and Graphic Organizer is designed for 7-12 World Language Teachers of Low to Mid level Intermediate Spanish, French or German language learners. It is expected that this Lesson Plan will take students 60 minutes.

Research shows that engaging students in self-assessment positively impacts language learning, motivation, and learner autonomy. To help World Language Educators accomplish this, the Nebraska Department of Education invited experienced world language teachers across the state to create student-friendly assessments in the form of can-do statements in the summer of 2022. This document is a student-friendly self-assessment activity for Intermediate Low world language learners created based on the 2019 Nebraska World Language Standards. The language use described in all can-do statements is meant for the target language, except for the second for standard 3.1 and the first for standard 4.2. It is recommended that word language teachers engage students with this document three times in an academic year: pre-course, mid-course, and post-course. Engaging students with this self-assessment activity will help students see growth over time and hopefully attribute growth to effective learning practices. Please feel free to contact chrystal.liu@nebraska.gov for any questions and concerns. 

Research shows that engaging students in self-assessment positively impacts language learning, motivation, and learner autonomy. To help World Language Educators accomplish this, the Nebraska Department of Education invited experienced world language teachers across the state to create student-friendly assessments in the form of can-do statements in the summer of 2022.  This document is a student-friendly self-assessment activity for Intermediate Low world language learners created based on the 2019 Nebraska World Language Standards. The language use described in all can-do statements is meant for the target language, except for the second for standard 3.1 and the first for standard 4.2.  It is recommended that word language teachers engage students with this document three times in an academic year: pre-course, mid-course, and post-course. Engaging students with this self-assessment activity will help students see growth over time and hopefully attribute growth to effective learning practices. Please feel free to contact chrystal.liu@nebraska.gov for any questions and concerns.

Students will warm-up with practice regarding familiar fairy-tales. They will then read or watch a Japanese folk-tale and discuss the story together. They will finish with some questions that analyze the message of the story and compare the story to folk-tales from their home culture.