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  • Home
  • Instruction
    • Lessons based on authentic resources
    • Proficiency
    • Communicative Modes
    • Target Language
    • Scaffolds and Supports
    • Tiering Tasks and Text
    • Interpretive Mode
    • Authentic Resources
    • Intercultural Communication
    • Continuous Assessment
    • Assessment in World Languages
    • Responding to Student Data
    • Feedback
    • Grammar in Context
    • Questioning and Discussion
    • Meeting the needs of diverse language learners
    • Learning Centers
    • Supportive Learning Environment
    • Knowing the Learner
    • Student Engagement
    • Student Choice and Voice
    • Flexible grouping
    • Student Reflection and Self-Assessment
    • Varied Approaches
    • Lesson and Unit Planning
    • Guided Instruction
    • Intentional Skill Building
    • Thinking Strategies
    • Immersion Resources
    • Designing Performance Tasks
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    • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in World Languages
    • Resources for the Shift to Online/Blended Learning
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The Communicative Modes
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Strategies by Mode
Strategy cards by mode
ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements​

Three Modes of Communication

Interpersonal Speaking Rubric

Presentational Speaking Rubric


Interpersonal and Presentation Writing Rubric


​Interpersonal Strategies
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Interpersonal Strategies

Interpersonal Speaking: Activities and Assessments

Integrating Interpersonal Speaking into Language Instruction

Core Practices: Fostering Interpersonal Communication

ACTFL Guiding Principle: Design Communicative Tasks


​Interpretive Strategies
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Interpretive Strategies

Addressing the Interpretive Mode Webpage

Authentic resources webpage

​Presentational Strategies
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Presentational Strategies


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Building Communicative Skills in the Modes
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Interpersonal vs. Presentational
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Modes Activity
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​Strategies by Mode

    • Interpersonal

      Conversation Circles (see below)


      Information Gap Activities

      Inside-Outside Circles

      Password

      Discussion Continuum (see below)

      Think-Pair-Share-Square

      Walk and Talk (see below)

      Give Me A Hint (see below)


      Three Step Interview

      People Bingo/Find Someone Who

      Accountable Talk

      Speed Friending

      Fan-N-Pick

      Mock Job Interviews (see below)
    1. Table Texting

    2. Guess Who (Spanish)(see below)​
HedBanz (see below)

​High Five (see below)

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​Chat Stations

Turn and Talk (see below)

Timed Think Talk


 Interpretive

Active Reading (see below)

Think/Write Aloud (see below)


Jigsaw

Visual Notetaking

1-2-3 (see below)

Say Something

Making text-to-self, to-text, & to-world connections

Picture Prompts (see below)

Text Mark Up (see below)


Most Important Word

Card Sort

Running Dictation

I Have, Who Has/Whip Around

Dictogloss
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Blackout Poetry

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Symbol notes

SPUNKI

Picture Dictation (see below)

Step Left/Step Right (see below)

See, Think, Wonder 

Opinion Twins (see below)

Situation bags (see below)



Presentational

Brainwriting

Sentence Combining (see below)

Mad Libs (see below)


Dialogue Journals

Building Blocks (see below)

Round Robin Writing

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Talking Chips

Bounce Cards

Conversation Jenga

Graffiti

Ball of yarn (see below)

Story/Conversation Strips (see below)


Word Cloud Build-a-Story

Gallery Walk

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Build a Story (see below)

​Password (see below)

Picture Stories (see below)

What's in the bag? (see below)

​Elevator pitch

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Language Learning Task Bank (Indiana University)

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    • Assessment in World Languages
    • Responding to Student Data
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    • Questioning and Discussion
    • Meeting the needs of diverse language learners
    • Learning Centers
    • Supportive Learning Environment
    • Knowing the Learner
    • Student Engagement
    • Student Choice and Voice
    • Flexible grouping
    • Student Reflection and Self-Assessment
    • Varied Approaches
    • Lesson and Unit Planning
    • Guided Instruction
    • Intentional Skill Building
    • Thinking Strategies
    • Immersion Resources
    • Designing Performance Tasks
    • AI Resources for World Languages
    • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in World Languages
    • Resources for the Shift to Online/Blended Learning
  • Leadership
    • Leadership Resources
    • Teacher Leadership
    • Coaching and Mentoring Skills
    • Professional Learning
    • Effective Meeting Management
    • Team Building
    • Leading Through Change
    • Teacher Recruitment and Retention
    • Growth Mindset
    • Feedback for Teachers
    • Supporting Teachers' Wellbeing
  • Workshops, sessions, and keynotes
  • WLPD4U
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