This website guides teachers through establishing a routine for running centers or stations in their World Language classrooms. This includes an overview of different centers models, how to select student groups, how to select activities for centers, how to organize procedures, as well as links to resources.
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This site explains how teachers can tier activities in their World Language classrooms. It includes background information about tiering, steps for teachers to develop tiered activities, and examples of tiered activities.
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Esta actividad está dirigida a los estudiantes principiantes. Al partir de la lectura y la conversación, se desarrolla la función comunicativa y se repasa el léxico de la casa.
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These authentic resources support a unit about clothing and shopping in Spanish.
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This activity is designed for advanced or heritage language learners. Students select a biography of personal interest from biografiascortas.com and complete an organizer. Two options are included.
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Students listen to a song and complete a cloze activity, then watch a commercial and explore locations on Google Maps while noting aberrations and answering questions.
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This activity is designed to introduce novice-level unit about clothing and shopping. Students use the website for El Corte Inglés (a department store in Spain) to discover clothing vocabulary and shop for clothing.
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This activity aligns to a unit about food and is designed for intermediate students. Students read an article, then answer comprehension and personal reflection questions.
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This activity aligns with a novice-level unit about food. The infographic shows options for each meal. Students select what they would like to eat for each meal during one day.
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This is a tiered interpretive listening activity. It aligns to an intermediate-level unit about family. All students watch the same video and answer the same questions, with three levels of support for students at different proficiency levels.
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This activity aligns to a unit about families. Students read several infographics about Mexican families and record information on a handout. This activity is designed to be open-ended in order to accommodate students of various proficiency levels.
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This activity aligns to a novice-level unit about families. It focuses on numbers and basic family relationships. Two versions are included: One with instructions in English, and one with instructions in Spanish.
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This interpretive listening and presentational writing task aligns with a novice-level unit about school supplies. This task is tiered by complexity of product (how students show what they know).
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In this activity, students read infographics and other reading material about appropriate chores that children of each age can do at home. The complexity of the resources varies by level, ranging from beginner to intermediate.
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This interpretive listening task aligns with a novice-level unit about families. This task is tiered by complexity of product (how students show what they know). Level A is given the most support, while level C is given the least support. An answer key is provided.
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This interpretive listening activity focuses on time and basic activity verbs. It can also be used to expose students to the third person plural "they" verbs in a concept attainment activity, in which students attempt to deduce the grammatical rule or pattern for third person plural verbs based on the context.
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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).
Material Type: Activity/Lab
These authentic resources support a unit about preferred pastimes and leisure activities in Spanish.
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These authentic resources support a unit about town and community in Spanish.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
These authentic resources support a unit about sports in Spanish.
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