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clear Content Area: World Languages - 2019/2024 // Grade Level: Novice-Low // Standard Category: All Standards Categories
clear Content Area: World Languages - 2019/2024 // Grade Level: Intermediate-Low // Standard Category: All Standards Categories
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World Languages - 2019-2024
Novice-Low, Standard 1. Communication: Communicate effectively in more than one language in order to function in a variety of situations and for multiple purposes.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 1. Interact and negotiate meaning in spoken, signed, or written conversations to share information, reactions, feelings and opinions (interpersonal mode).
Grade Level Expectation:
1.1 Communicate in spontaneous spoken, written or signed conversations on both very familiar and everyday topics using practiced or memorized words and phrases (interpersonal mode).
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Provide information by answering simple questions on very familiar topics using practiced or memorized words and phrases, with the help of gestures or visuals.
- Express some basic needs using practiced or memorized words and phrases, with the help of gestures and visuals.
- Express basic preferences or feelings using practiced or memorized words and phrases, with the help of gestures and visuals.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Greet others.
- Introduce self to someone.
- Answer a few simple questions.
Inquiry Questions:
- How can I exchange information and ideas in conversations?
- How can I meet my needs or address situations in conversations?
- How can I express, react to and support preferences and opinions in conversations?
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Prepared Graduates:
- 2. Understand, interpret and analyze what is heard, read or viewed on a variety of topics (interpretive mode).
Grade Level Expectation:
1.2 Identify the general topic and some basic information in texts that are spoken, written, or signed in both very familiar and everyday contexts, by recognizing memorized words or familiar words (interpretive mode).
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Identify memorized or familiar words when they are supported by gestures or visuals in informational texts.
- Identify memorized or familiar words when they are supported by gestures or visuals in fictional texts.
- Understand memorized or familiar words when they are supported by gestures or visuals in conversations, discussions and other sources.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Identify the sound of a character or word.
- Understand isolated words that they have memorized particularly when accompanied by pictures or gestures.
- Recognize a few letters or characters.
- Connect some words, phrases or characters to their meanings.
Inquiry Questions:
- What can I understand, interpret or analyze in authentic informational texts?
- What can I understand, interpret or analyze in authentic fictional texts?
- What can I understand, interpret or analyze in conversations, discussions and other sources?
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Prepared Graduates:
- 3. Present information, concepts and ideas to inform, explain, persuade and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers (presentational mode).
Grade Level Expectation:
1.3 Present information on very familiar and everyday topics using a variety of practiced or memorized words through spoken, written or signed language (presentational mode).
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Introduce self, using practiced or memorized words and phrases with the help of gestures or visuals.
- Express likes and dislikes using practiced or memorized words and phrases with the help of gestures or visuals.
- Name very familiar people, places and objects using practiced or memorized words and phrases with the help of gestures or visuals.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Recite, write or sign learned words and phrases.
- State and label the names of familiar people, places and objects.
- Introduce self to a group.
- Recite short memorized phrases, parts of poems and rhymes.
- Copy or sign some characters, letters and words.
Inquiry Questions:
- How can I present information to narrate about my life, experiences and events?
- How can I present information to give a preference, opinion or persuasive argument?
- How can I present information to inform, describe or explain?
World Languages - 2019-2024
Novice-Low, Standard 2. Cultures/Intercultural Communication: Interact with cultural competence and understanding.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 4. Use the language to investigate, explain and reflect on the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the cultures studied.
Grade Level Expectation:
2.1 Identify practices to help understand perspectives in the target cultures and the student’s own.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Investigate and identify some typical practices related to everyday familiar life in the target cultures and the student's own culture when using the target language in the three modes at the novice-low range.
- Communicate with others from the target culture in familiar everyday situations showing basic cultural awareness when using the target language in the three modes at the novice-low range.
- Use appropriate rehearsed behaviors and recognize some inappropriate behaviors in familiar everyday situations when using the target language in the three modes at the novice-low range.
- Interact with others in and from another culture at a survival level in some familiar everyday contexts when using the target language in the three modes at the novice-low range.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Identify social practices such as greetings, introductions, leave-takings and thanking people.
- Recognize that people from different cultures can interact with each other in multiple ways.
Inquiry Questions:
- How can I use my target language skills to investigate the world beyond my immediate environment?
- How can I use my target language skills to recognize and understand others’ ways of thinking as well as my own?
- How can I use my target language skills and cultural understandings to interact in a cultural context other than my own?
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Prepared Graduates:
- 5. Use the language to investigate, explain and reflect on the relationship between the products and perspectives of the cultures studied.
Grade Level Expectation:
2.2 Identify products to help understand perspectives in the target cultures and the student’s own.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Investigate and identify some typical products related to everyday familiar life in the target cultures and the student’s own culture when using the target language in the three modes at the novice-low range.
- Communicate with others from the target culture in familiar everyday situations showing basic cultural awareness when using the target language in the three modes at the novice-low range.
- Use appropriate rehearsed behaviors and recognize some inappropriate behaviors in familiar everyday situations when using the target language in the three modes at the novice-low range.
- Interact with others in and from another culture at a survival level in some familiar everyday contexts when using the target language in the three modes at the novice-low range.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Participate in or simulate age-appropriate cultural activities such as games, birthday celebrations, storytelling and dramatizations.
- Identify products that are different from the student’s own culture.
Inquiry Questions:
- How can I use my target language skills to investigate the world beyond my immediate environment?
- How can I use my target language skills to recognize and understand others’ ways of thinking as well as my own?
- How can I use my target language skills and cultural understandings to interact in a cultural context other than my own?
World Languages - 2019-2024
Novice-Low, Standard 3. Connections: Connect with other disciplines and acquire information and diverse perspectives in order to use the language to function in academic and career-related situations.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 6. Build, reinforce and expand their knowledge of other disciplines while using the language to develop critical thinking and to solve problems creatively.
Grade Level Expectation:
3.1 Identify information that can be gathered from target language resources connected to other content areas.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Identify selected information and skills from other content areas in experiences related to the target language and its cultures when using the target language in the three modes at the novice-low range.
- Reinforce learning in other content areas while using authentic resources when using the target language in the three modes at the novice-low range.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Read or listen to illustrated stories from the target culture(s) and recognize similarities to familiar stories from the same genre (e.g., folklore, fables, myths, legends).
- Use authentic resources (e.g., maps, charts, infographics, weather reports, graphs) to identify information connected to other content areas.
Inquiry Questions:
- How can I connect with other disciplines in order to use the target language to function in academic and career-related situations?
- How can I acquire information and diverse perspectives in order to use the target language to function in academic and career-related situations?
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Prepared Graduates:
- 7. Access and evaluate information and diverse perspectives that are available through the language and its culture(s).
Grade Level Expectation:
3.2 Use authentic resources to locate basic information.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Extract information about the target cultures from selected authentic sources when using the target language in the three modes at the novice-low range.
- Use authentic target language sources to gain insight about the distinctive perspectives of the target culture when using the target language in the three modes at the novice-low range.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Read, listen to, or talk about age-appropriate school content such as social studies, sciences, the arts, physical education and health.
- Expand vocabulary for working with school content through illustrated visuals (e.g., planets, anatomy, timelines, maps).
Inquiry Questions:
- How can I connect with other disciplines in order to use the target language to function in academic and career-related situations?
- How can I acquire information and diverse perspectives in order to use the target language to function in academic and career-related situations?
World Languages - 2019-2024
Novice-Low, Standard 4. Comparisons: Develop insight into the nature of language and culture in order to interact with cultural competence.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 8. Use the language to investigate, explain and reflect on the nature of language through comparisons of the target language and the student's own language.
Grade Level Expectation:
4.1 Identify similarities and differences of the target language and the student’s own language.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Use examples of words that are similar in the target language and the student’s own language in the three modes at the novice-low range.
- Recognize identified idiomatic expressions that cannot be directly translated into the student’s own language in the three modes at the novice-low range.
- Identify differences in formal and informal requirements for language between the target language and the student’s own language in the three modes at the novice-low range.
- Use basic grammatical structures in context and recognize similarities and differences in the student’s own language when using the target language in the three modes at the novice-low range.
- Identify and compare the sound and writing systems of the target language with the student’s own language, including stress, intonation and punctuation in the three modes at the novice-low range.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Observe and identify formal and informal forms of language in greetings and leave-takings.
- Observe differences and similarities between the sound and writing systems of the target language and the student’s own.
Inquiry Questions:
- How do I develop insight into the nature of language in order to interact with cultural competence?
- How do I develop insight into the nature of culture in order to interact with cultural competence?
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Prepared Graduates:
- 9. Use the language to investigate, explain and reflect on the concept of culture through comparisons of the culture(s) and the student's own culture.
Grade Level Expectation:
4.2 Identify and recognize the concept of culture through comparisons of the target culture(s) and the student’s own culture.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Recognize cross-cultural similarities and differences in the practices to understand perspectives of the target culture(s) in the three modes at the novice-low range.
- Recognize cross-cultural similarities and differences in the products to understand perspectives of the target culture(s) in the three modes at the novice-low range.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Greet friends, family or acquaintances with appropriate words and gestures.
- Compare simple patterns of behavior in various cultural settings (e.g., transportation to school, eating habits).
- Identify differences of products of the target culture(s) and the student’s own.
Inquiry Questions:
- How do I develop insight into the nature of language in order to interact with cultural competence?
- How do I develop insight into the concept of culture in order to interact with cultural competence?
World Languages - 2019-2024
Intermediate-Low, Standard 1. Communication: Communicate effectively in more than one language in order to function in a variety of situations and for multiple purposes.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 1. Interact and negotiate meaning in spoken, signed, or written conversations to share information, reactions, feelings and opinions (interpersonal mode).
Grade Level Expectation:
1.1 Participate in spontaneous spoken, written or signed conversations on very familiar topics creating simple sentences to ask and answer a variety of questions (interpersonal mode).
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Request and provide information in conversations on familiar topics by creating questions and simple sentences and asking appropriate follow-up questions.
- Interact with others to meet basic needs in familiar situations by creating simple sentences and asking appropriate follow-up questions.
- Express, ask about and react with some details to preferences, feelings or opinions on familiar topics by creating simple sentences and asking appropriate follow-up questions.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Have a simple conversation on a variety of everyday topics.
- Ask and answer questions about familiar topics.
- Use the language to meet basic needs in familiar situations.
Inquiry Questions:
- How can I exchange information and ideas in conversations?
- How can I meet my needs or address situations in conversations?
- How can I express, react to and support preferences and opinions in conversations?
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Prepared Graduates:
- 2. Understand, interpret and analyze what is heard, read or viewed on a variety of topics (interpretive mode).
Grade Level Expectation:
1.2 Understand the main idea and some pieces of information from simple sentences within texts that are spoken, written or signed on familiar topics (interpretive mode).
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Identify the topic and related information from simple sentences in short informational texts.
- Identify the topic and related information from simple sentences in short fictional texts.
- Identify the main idea and related information in short conversations, discussions and other sources.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Understand the basic purpose of a message.
- Understand messages related to their basic needs.
- Understand questions and simple statements on everyday topics when they are part of the conversation.
- Understand messages in which the writer tells or asks them about topics of personal interest.
- Identify some simple information needed on forms.
- Identify some information from news media.
Inquiry Questions:
- What can I understand, interpret or analyze in authentic informational texts?
- What can I understand, interpret or analyze in authentic fictional texts?
- What can I understand, interpret or analyze in conversations, discussions and other sources?
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Prepared Graduates:
- 3. Present information, concepts and ideas to inform, explain, persuade and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers (presentational mode).
Grade Level Expectation:
1.3 Communicate information, make presentations and express thoughts about familiar topics, using simple sentences through spoken, written, or signed language (presentational mode).
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Present personal information about life, activities and events, using simple sentences.
- Express preferences on familiar and everyday topics of interest and explain why one feels that way, using simple sentences.
- Present on familiar and everyday topics, using simple sentences.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Present about people, activities, events and experiences.
- Express needs and wants.
- Present and write information about plans, instructions and directions.
- Present songs, short skits or dramatic readings.
- Prepare materials for a presentation.
- Present about topics of interest.
Inquiry Questions:
- How can I present information to narrate about my life, experiences and events?
- How can I present information to give a preference, opinion or persuasive argument?
- How can I present information to inform, describe or explain?
World Languages - 2019-2024
Intermediate-Low, Standard 2. Cultures/Intercultural Communication: Interact with cultural competence and understanding.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 4. Use the language to investigate, explain and reflect on the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the cultures studied.
Grade Level Expectation:
2.1 Investigate and compare practices to help understand perspectives in the target cultures and the student’s own.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Compare practices related to everyday life and personal interests or studies when using the target language in the three modes at the intermediate-low range.
- Converse with peers from the target cultures in familiar situations at school, work, or play, and show interest in basic cultural similarities and differences when using the target language in the three modes at the intermediate-low range.
- Recognize that significant differences in behaviors exist among cultures, use appropriate learned behaviors, and avoid major social blunders when using the target language in the three modes at the intermediate-low range.
- Interact with others in and from another culture at a functional level in some familiar contexts when using the target language in the three modes at the intermediate-low range.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Seek opportunities and interact with people who speak other languages and who have different cultural practices and perspectives.
- Observe patterns of behavior typical of one’s peer group in the culture such as observing how different ways of greeting and leave-taking reflect on the relationships between people in the target culture.
Inquiry Questions:
- How can I use my target language skills to investigate the world beyond my immediate environment?
- How can I use my target language skills to recognize and understand others’ ways of thinking as well as my own?
- How can I use my target language skills and cultural understandings to interact in a cultural context other than my own?
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Prepared Graduates:
- 5. Use the language to investigate, explain and reflect on the relationship between the products and perspectives of the cultures studied.
Grade Level Expectation:
2.2 Investigate and compare products to help understand perspectives in the target cultures and the student’s own.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Compare products related to everyday life and personal interests or studies when using the target language in the three modes at the intermediate-low range.
- Converse with peers from the target cultures in familiar situations at school, work or play, and show interest in basic cultural similarities and differences when using the target language in the three modes at the intermediate-low range.
- Recognize that significant differences in behaviors exist among cultures, use appropriate learned behaviors and avoid major social blunders when using the target language in the three modes at the intermediate-low range.
- Interact with others in and from another culture at a functional level in some familiar contexts when using the target language in the three modes at the intermediate-low range.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Experience products of the target cultures such as stories, poetry, music, paintings, dance, drama, etc., and explain the origin and importance of these products in today’s culture.
- Compare how buying and selling products and services reflects local and community customs.
Inquiry Questions:
- How can I use my target language skills to investigate the world beyond my immediate environment?
- How can I use my target language skills to recognize and understand others’ ways of thinking as well as my own?
- How can I use my target language skills and cultural understandings to interact in a cultural context other than my own?
World Languages - 2019-2024
Intermediate-Low, Standard 3. Connections: Connect with other disciplines and acquire information and diverse perspectives in order to use the language to function in academic and career-related situations.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 6. Build, reinforce and expand their knowledge of other disciplines while using the language to develop critical thinking and to solve problems creatively.
Grade Level Expectation:
3.1 Use information gathered from target language resources for application in other content areas.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Transfer and apply information and skills from other content areas to experiences related to the target language and its culture(s) when using the three modes at the intermediate-low range.
- Apply information gathered through target language resources to other content areas in order to supplement learning when using the three modes at the intermediate-low range.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Share information in the target language about topics from other content areas.
- Make oral or written presentations in the target language on topics being studied in other classes.
Inquiry Questions:
- How can I connect with other disciplines in order to use the target language to function in academic and career-related situations?
- How can I acquire information and diverse perspectives in order to use the target language to function in academic and career-related situations?
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Prepared Graduates:
- 7. Access and evaluate information and diverse perspectives that are available through the language and its culture(s).
Grade Level Expectation:
3.2 Examine information and viewpoints present in authentic resources.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Research authentic target language sources, analyze the content, and acquire unique information available only through the target language and its culture(s) when using the three modes at the intermediate-low range.
- Use authentic sources to explore the distinctive perspectives of the target language and its cultures in the three modes at the intermediate-low range.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Compare preferences related to daily life of people in the student’s community and people in the target cultures.
- Research important figures from history, science or the arts and expand student knowledge.
Inquiry Questions:
- How can I connect with other disciplines in order to use the target language to function in academic and career-related situations?
- How can I acquire information and diverse perspectives in order to use the target language to function in academic and career-related situations?
World Languages - 2019-2024
Intermediate-Low, Standard 4. Comparisons: Develop insight into the nature of language and culture in order to interact with cultural competence.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 8. Use the language to investigate, explain and reflect on the nature of language through comparisons of the target language and the student's own language.
Grade Level Expectation:
4.1 Recognize how the significance of the similarities and differences between the target language and the student’s own language provides insight into the structures of their own language.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Compare similarities and differences in the target language and the student’s own language in the three modes at the intermediate-low range.
- Use appropriate idiomatic expressions in limited settings in the three modes at the intermediate-low range.
- Recognize how different time frames are expressed in the target language in the three modes at the intermediate-low range.
- Use knowledge of sound and writing systems in the target language to better understand the student’s own language in the three modes at the intermediate-low range.
- Compare similarities in formal and informal requirements for language between the target language and their language in the three modes at the intermediate-low range.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Compare word order in the target language to student’s own language.
- Notice how different time frames (e.g., present, past, future) are expressed in the target language.
- Identify words in the target language that have no translation in English and vice versa.
Inquiry Questions:
- How do I develop insight into the nature of language in order to interact with cultural competence?
- How do I develop insight into the concept of culture in order to interact with cultural competence?
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Prepared Graduates:
- 9. Use the language to investigate, explain and reflect on the concept of culture through comparisons of the culture(s) and the student's own culture.
Grade Level Expectation:
4.2 Compare the similarities and differences between the target culture(s) and the student’s own culture.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Examine cross-cultural similarities and differences in the practices to understand perspectives of the target culture(s) in the three modes at the intermediate-low range.
- Examine cross-cultural similarities and differences in the products to understand perspectives of the target culture(s) in the three modes at the intermediate-low range.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Compare and contrast practices relating to everyday life in the target culture(s) to the student’s own.
- Identify, investigate, compare and contrast the function of everyday objects (e.g., household items, tools, foods, clothing) produced in the target culture(s) and the student’s own.
- Compare and contrast the role of technology in the target culture(s) and the student’s own.
Inquiry Questions:
- How do I develop insight into the nature of language in order to interact with cultural competence?
- How do I develop insight into the concept of culture in order to interact with cultural competence?
World Languages - 2019-2024
Advanced-Low, Standard 1. Communication: Communicate effectively in more than one language in order to function in a variety of situations and for multiple purposes.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 1. Interact and negotiate meaning in spoken, signed, or written conversations to share information, reactions, feelings and opinions (interpersonal mode).
Grade Level Expectation:
1.1 Maintain spontaneous spoken, written or signed conversations and discussions across various time frames on familiar, as well as unfamiliar, concrete topics, using series of connected sentences and probing questions (interpersonal mode).
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Exchange information and ideas on a variety of familiar and concrete academic and social topics, using a few simple paragraphs across major time frames.
- Interact and negotiate to resolve an unexpected complication that arises in a familiar situation, using a few simple paragraphs across major time frames.
- Maintain conversations by providing explanations and comparisons of preferences, opinions, and advice on familiar and concrete academic and social topics using a few simple paragraphs across major time frames.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Participate in conversations on a wide variety of topics that go beyond everyday life.
- Compare and contrast life in different locations and in different times.
- Resolve an unexpected complication that arises in a familiar situation.
- Conduct or participate in interviews.
Inquiry Questions:
- How can I exchange information and ideas in conversations?
- How can I meet my needs or address situations in conversations?
- How can I express, react to, and support preferences and opinions in conversations?
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Prepared Graduates:
- 2. Understand, interpret and analyze what is heard, read or viewed on a variety of topics (interpretive mode).
Grade Level Expectation:
1.2 Understand the main message and supporting details on a wide variety of familiar and general interest topics across various time frames from complex, organized texts that are spoken, written or signed (interpretive mode).
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Identify the underlying message and some supporting details in descriptive informational texts across time frames.
- Identify the underlying message and some supporting details in fictional texts across time frames.
- Identify the underlying message and some supporting details in conversations and discussions across time frames.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Find and use information for practical purposes.
- Read texts that compare and contrast information.
- Understand descriptions and stories of events that have happened or will happen.
- Understand the main idea of popular genres.
Inquiry Questions:
- What can I understand, interpret or analyze in authentic informational texts?
- What can I understand, interpret or analyze in authentic fictional texts?
- What can I understand, interpret or analyze in conversations and discussions?
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Prepared Graduates:
- 3. Present information, concepts and ideas to inform, explain, persuade and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers (presentational mode).
Grade Level Expectation:
1.3 Deliver detailed and organized presentations on familiar as well as unfamiliar concrete topics, in paragraphs and using various time frames through spoken, written or signed language (presentational mode).
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Tell stories about school and community events and personal experiences, using paragraphs across major time frames.
- State a viewpoint with supporting evidence on some concrete academic, social and professional topics of interest, using paragraphs across major time frames.
- Deliver presentations on some concrete academic, social and professional topics of interest, using paragraphs across major time frames.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Present on a variety of academic and workplace topics.
- Present on a variety of social and cultural topics.
- Explain issues of public and community interest, including different viewpoints.
- Present to a specific audience.
Inquiry Questions:
- How can I present information to narrate about my life, experiences and events?
- How can I present information to give a preference, opinion or persuasive argument?
- How can I present information to inform, describe or explain?
World Languages - 2019-2024
Advanced-Low, Standard 2. Cultures/Intercultural Communication: Interact with cultural competence and understanding.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 4. Use the language to investigate, explain and reflect on the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the cultures studied.
Grade Level Expectation:
2.1 Explain some diversity among practices and how it relates to perspectives in the target cultures and the student’s own.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Explain how a variety of practices within familiar and social situations are related to perspectives when using the target language in the three modes at the advanced-low range.
- Converse comfortably with others from the target culture in familiar and some unfamiliar situations and show some understanding of cultural differences when using the target language in the three modes at the advanced-low range.
- Demonstrate awareness of subtle differences among cultural behaviors and adjust the student's behavior accordingly in familiar and some unfamiliar situations when using the target language in the three modes at the advanced-low range.
- Interact at a competent level in familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts when using the target language in the three modes at the advanced-low range.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Investigate opportunities to explore the world in order to expand linguistic proficiency and cultural understanding (such as study abroad, gap year experiences, immersion camps, etc.).
- Adjust language, behaviors and messages to acknowledge audiences with different cultural backgrounds.
Inquiry Questions:
- How can I use my target language skills to investigate the world beyond my immediate environment?
- How can I use my target language skills to recognize and understand others’ ways of thinking as well as my own?
- How can I use my target language skills and cultural understandings to interact in a cultural context other than my own?
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Prepared Graduates:
- 5. Use the language to investigate, explain and reflect on the relationship between the products and perspectives of the cultures studied.
Grade Level Expectation:
2.2 Explain some diversity among products and how it relates to perspectives in the target cultures and the student’s own.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Explain how a variety of products of public and personal interest are related to perspectives when using the target language in the three modes at the advanced-low range.
- Converse comfortably with others from the target culture, in familiar and some unfamiliar situations and show some understanding of cultural differences when using the target language in the three modes at the advanced-low range.
- Demonstrate awareness of subtle differences among cultural behaviors and adjust the student's behavior accordingly, in familiar and some unfamiliar situations when using the target language in the three modes at the advanced-low range.
- Interact at a competent level in familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts when using the target language in the three modes at the advanced-low range.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Explain how globalized products impact society and individual lifestyles.
- Research in detail the role and importance of products from the target cultures.
- Recognize the contributions of other cultures to the world and the possible solutions to common global challenges.
Inquiry Questions:
- How can I use my target language skills to investigate the world beyond my immediate environment?
- How can I use my target language skills to recognize and understand others’ ways of thinking as well as my own?
- How can I use my target language skills and cultural understandings to interact in a cultural context other than my own?
World Languages - 2019-2024
Advanced-Low, Standard 3. Connections: Connect with other disciplines and acquire information and diverse perspectives in order to use the language to function in academic and career-related situations.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 6. Build, reinforce and expand their knowledge of other disciplines while using the language to develop critical thinking and to solve problems creatively.
Grade Level Expectation:
3.1 Evaluate information gathered from target language resources connected to other content areas.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Interpret information and apply skills from other content areas to experiences related to the target language and its cultures when using the three modes at the advanced-low range.
- Research target language resources in order to analyze and synthesize information acquired from authentic target language sources for use in other content areas when using the three modes at the advanced-low range.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Explore, discuss and debate topics from other content areas (e.g., political and historical concepts, worldwide health issues, and environmental concerns).
- Identify and analyze characteristics of different text types and genres.
Inquiry Questions:
- How can I connect with other disciplines in order to use the target language to function in academic and career-related situations?
- How can I acquire information and diverse perspectives in order to use the target language to function in academic and career-related situations?
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Prepared Graduates:
- 7. Access and evaluate information and diverse perspectives that are available through the language and its culture(s).
Grade Level Expectation:
3.2 Evaluate information and viewpoints present in authentic resources.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Research authentic target language resources, analyze the content, and acquire unique information available only through the target language and its cultures when using the three modes at the advanced-low range.
- Use authentic sources to analyze the distinctive perspectives of the target language and its cultures when using the three modes at the advanced-low range.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Research an issue of global importance in order to provide insights from the perspective of the target cultures.
- Read a piece of literature in the target language and analyze the universality of the message.
Inquiry Questions:
- How can I connect with other disciplines in order to use the target language to function in academic and career-related situations?
- How can I acquire information and diverse perspectives in order to use the target language to function in academic and career-related situations?
World Languages - 2019-2024
Advanced-Low, Standard 4. Comparisons: Develop insight into the nature of language and culture in order to interact with cultural competence.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 8. Use the language to investigate, explain and reflect on the nature of language through comparisons of the target language and the student's own language.
Grade Level Expectation:
4.1 Reflect on the significance of the similarities and differences between the target language and the student's own language.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Analyze similarities and differences in the target language and the student’s own language in the three modes at the advanced-low range.
- Use appropriate idiomatic expressions in a variety of settings in the three modes at the advanced-low range.
- Compare differences in formal and informal requirements for language between the target language and their language in the three modes at the advanced-low range.
- Recognize how different time frames are expressed in the target language in the three modes at the advanced-low range.
- Use knowledge of sound and writing systems in the target language to better understand the student’s own language in the three modes at the advanced-low range.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Recognize that cognates have the same as well as different meanings among languages.
- Analyze elements of the target language, such as time and tense, and comparable linguistic elements in English.
- Report on the relationship between word order and meaning and hypothesize on how this may or may not reflect the ways in which cultures organize information and view the world.
- Identify and analyze lexical and grammatical changes in the language they are learning and the student’s own.
Inquiry Questions:
- How do I develop insight into the nature of language in order to interact with cultural competence?
- How do I develop insight into the concept of culture in order to interact with cultural competence?
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Prepared Graduates:
- 9. Use the language to investigate, explain and reflect on the concept of culture through comparisons of the culture(s) and the student's own culture.
Grade Level Expectation:
4.2 Reflect on the significance of the similarities and differences between the target culture(s) and the student’s own culture.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Analyze cross-cultural similarities and differences in the practices to understand perspectives of the target culture(s) in the three modes at the advanced-low range.
- Analyze cross-cultural similarities and differences in the products to understand perspectives of the target culture(s) in the three modes at the advanced-low range.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Compare and contrast the values (e.g., work and leisure time) in the target culture(s) and the student’s own.
- Compare and contrast behaviors (e.g., health and wellness) in the target culture(s) and the student’s own.
- Compare and contrast attitudes (e.g., youth and aging) in the target culture(s) and the student’s own.
- Compare and contrast the importance placed on individual needs versus community/global needs in the target culture(s) and the student’s own.
- Identify and discuss social, economic and political institutions and related perspectives in the target culture(s) and the student’s own.
Inquiry Questions:
- How do I develop insight into the nature of language in order to interact with cultural competence?
- How do I develop insight into the concept of culture in order to interact with cultural competence?
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