This OER Lesson was created by Chloē 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 Lesson Plan is designed for 9 - 12 World Language Arts teachers for Novice Learners of Spanish. The purpose of this lesson is to provide students with input and processing at the Level 2/Novice High to learn about Sports in Spanish-Speaking Countries. The lesson plan includes explanations of and resources for: 1) Input Activity 2) Processing Activity 3) Practice Activity.This Lesson Plan addresses the following NDE World Language Standard(s):  NE.WL.1.1.B  NE.WL.1.2.C  NE.WL.1.3.C 

A compilation of brief video clips in which native speakers of Spanish from various locations throughout Latin America and Spain demonstrate various language tasks.

The SpinTX video archive provides a convenient web interface to search hundreds of short video clips from the Spanish in Texas Corpus. The collection includes hundreds of video clips culled from interviews of native and heritage speakers of Spanish living in Texas. Each video is accompanied by synchronized closed captions and a transcript that has been annotated with thematic, grammatical, functional and metalinguistic information. All materials available on the site can be freely used, copied, and distributed under a Creative Commons license.

 This online material offers to student a pleasant and fun environment to achieve the development of learning. Online learning can replace a good portion of in-person class time, thus reducing the need for on-campus meetings. In this time, students will have the chance to interact with tasks related to sports. Basically, those materials are made for students of physical education, health and sports, who are attending the first level of English. Students will encounter reading activities, matches, wordsearch puzzle, listening exercises, speaking tasks and so on. In one way or another, learner will be in contact all the time with the sports issue. 

This interpretive listening and presentational writing task aligns with a novice-level unit about sports. This task is tiered by complexity of product (how students show what they know).

In this lab students will create a weather report and practice talking about the weather. Then, students will work together to discuss and suggest activities that are appropriate based on the weather report that they came up with.

Website created by Nancy Thuleen for teachers of German. It contains ready made resources and worksheets German teachers can use in their classrooms for free and with no attribution.

Information Needed in order to publish in OER Commons Overview:This OER Lesson was created by Shan Li 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 is designed for 9 - 12 World Language Arts teachers for student learning of Novice high, Intermedia Learners of Chinese.  The content here is after students have learned the Technologh/innovation for first five to six epoxied, they will read the content to show their understanding of the content and also, help the instuctors to get feedback from those days learning.  This Lesson Plan addresses the following NDE World Language Standard(s): NE 1.2. 1.3. NE 2.2It is expected that this Lesson Plan will take students 25-50 minutes to complete.Conditions of Use (CC License info) CC-BY-NC-SASubjects (required) - HumanitiesEducational Level (required)  9 - 12Material Types(required) Lesson Plan, Unit etc.Languages (required) - Chinese, English

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.

This OER Tiempo (¿qué hora es?) was created by Christopher Guadarrama 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 is designed for 9 - 12 World Language Arts teachers for Novice Learners of Spanish. Students will analyze and evaluate the elements of literary text, build background knowledge to clarify text and deepen understanding, and use relevant evidence from a variety of sources to assist in analysis and reflection of complex text. This Lesson Plan addresses the following NDE World Language Standard(s): NE LA 12.1.6b, NE LA 12.1.6l, and NE LA 12.1.6oIt is expected that this Lesson Plan will take students 90 minutes to complete.

 This tiered task involves interpretive reading of an authentic school schedule and presentational writing to compare the schedule to students’ own schedules. This task is tiered by complexity of product (how students show what they know).Suggested Extension or Follow-Up ActivitiesIf students worked with different schedules, they could compare the results.Speaking activity – Students ask each other questions about the schedules.Students design their ideal schedule.Students give a “tour” of their schedules (Walk around school or use a map to describe schedule. En la primera hora, tengo la clase de español con la Señora Sherrow…)Image source:  "Child" by picjumbo_com on Pixabay.com

Typical celebrations include annual holidays or special events in one's life.  Some of these special events can include weddings or other religious events such as baptisms or bar mitzvahs.  Special events can also include special days or parties such as a Quinceañera.  A Quinceañera can be compared to a Sweet 16; however, it is celebrated on a fifteenth birthday. In this seminar read more about a Quinceañera and the details of this typical celebration.ACTFL StandardsCommunication: Interpersonal Communication, Presentational CommunicationCultures: Relating Cultural Practices to PerspectivesCommunities: School and Global CommunitiesLearning TargetI can write about a typical celebration.Habits of MindCreating, imagining, innovatingCritical Thinking SkillConstruct Meaning 

In this activity, students will talk about a vacation they would like to take and engage in conversation about traveling. Students will learn words relating to traveling and taking a vacation. They practice speaking to each other about planning a vacation. Students will also express personal opinions and thoughts about their vacation and hotel.

Preparing for a trip can be a very exciting time! You may be traveling for a mission trip, a job requirement, or a social traveling trip with friends or family.  Regardless of why you are traveling there are important words to know when traveling to a Spanish speaking country and being able to navigate through an airport, an airplane, and at a travel agency.  Learn these words in this seminar so you can convince your school administrators on taking a trip abroad. There are many school districts who are oppose traveling abroad due to security and insurance liability so you will need to convince them the value of safety of traveling to a Spanish speaking country!  ACTFL StandardsCommunication: Interpersonal Communication, Presentational CommunicationCommunities: School and Global Communities, Lifelong LearningConnections: Making ConnectionsLearning TargetI can present reasons for or against a position on a political or social issue.Habits of MindThinking and communicating with clarity and precisionCritical Thinking SkillAnalyzing Perspectives

Think about all the fun things you can do, see, and learn about when traveling.  Many Spanish-speaking countries are enriched with culture and history. In this seminar you will be introduced to new verbs that you can do while traveling to a city and discovering new places.ACTFL StandardsCommunication: Interpretive Communication and Presentational CommunicationCultures: Relating Cultural Practices to Perspectives:Communities: Lifelong Learning:Learning TargetI can write simple statements about where I live.Habits of MindApplying past knowledge to new situations.Critical Thinking SkillConstructing Support

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.

This OER Reading Comprehension Activity was created by Bonodji Nako  as part of the 2023 World Language OER Summer work and training. Educators worked with NDE staff to create OER Learning Plans and materials. 

This OER, Vorstellungsgespräch / Interview, was created by Ashton Krueger 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 is designed for 9–12 World Language Arts teachers for Novice Learners of German. Students will analyze and evaluate the elements of an interview and use background knowledge to clarify text and deepen understanding, as well as exchange information in a partner dialogue. This Lesson Plan addresses the following NDE World Language Standard(s): 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, and 4.1.It is expected that this Lesson Plan will take students 50 minutes to complete.

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 Novice Mid 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.