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Intentional Skill Building


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Novice
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Picture
Skill​
Anchor Charts​
Graphic Organizers
Expression Lists
Strategies
Describing self and others
Value

FR- Tout sur moi

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SP- Todo sobre mi
FR-Faire un portrait

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​GER: What do you look like?

GER- Personenbeschreibung ​

SP- Hablar de una persona

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SP- Describimos personas


SP- Guess Who
Expressing feelings or preferences
Value

​SP- Soy un poema
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FR- Les sentiments

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SP-Expresar sentimientos

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SP-Express feelings in conversation
Value
Expressing opinions
SP-Que es una opinion

FR- Mon texte d'opinion


SP- ​Organizando mi opinion
French expression lists

​​Spanish expression lists

Arabic expression lists

Chinese expressionlists

German expression lists

Italian expression lists

​Portuguese expressions

Russian expressions
Say Something

SP- Que opinas

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Identifying topic and some details in text
FR-l'idée principale


​FR- Idée principale et détails

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SP- Idea principal y detalles

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SP- Idea principal y detalles (2)

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PORT- Ideia Principal
Value
Headlines

Most important word​
Asking and answering questions
FR- Poser des questions
SP- Preguntas 
French

Arabic

Chinese

German

Italian

Portuguese

Russian

​Spanish
Find Someone Who
Using context clues

FR- Strategies de lecture

GER- Reading bookmarks


SP- Que hago (bookmarks)

​SP- Caracteristicas de texto

SP- Claves de contexto



Value
Don't Know a Word?
Preparing for Intermediate
Skill
Anchor Charts
Graphic Organizers 
Expression lists
Strategies
Sequencing

SP- Palabras de secuencia

SP- Secuencia
FR- Debut, Milieu, Fin

SP- Secuencia

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SP- Principio, Despues, Final 

FR- Organisateurs textuels

FR- Marqueurs de relation


SP- Palabras de transicion
Word Families and Synonyms
SP- Crear nuevas palabras 
FR- La fleur du vocabulaire 
FR- Comment eviter le verbe dire

FR- Manger

IT- La famiglia acqua

IT- Al posto di dire

LAT- Temp

SP- Familia de palabras: FLOR

​SP- Otras maneras de decir delicioso

SP- Familias de palabras
Synonym Rolls

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Synonym Garden



FR- Le jeu des familles des mots​
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SP- Familias de Palabras Juego
Cause and Effect
SP- Causa y efecto
FR- Cause et effet

SP- Causa y efecto

SP- Causa y efecto

PORT- Causa efeito



SP- Para expresar causa

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SP- Causa y efecto 
Value
Story Elements
SP- Elementos de la historia

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SP- Elementos del cuento
FR- Le recit

FR- Il etait une fois


FR- Structure du recit​

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FR- 6 instantanés pour une histoire

GER- Textstrukturanalyse

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​SP- Mapa del cuento

SP- Mapa de cuento 2

Character Traits

SP- Caracteristicas de un personaje

SP- Caracteristicas del personaje

FR- Nuages de mots
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SP- A examinar el personaje

SP- Hablemos del personaje
Making Connections
FR- Faire des liens

FR- Faire des liens (2)

FR- Faire une connexion

​SP- Hacer conexiones

SP- Hacer conneciones
FR- J'ai lu et j'ai pense a
Intermediate
Picture
Picture
Skill
Anchor Charts
Graphic Organizers
Expression Lists
Strategies
Using connectors

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Spanish

Portuguese

Italian

German

French

Chinese

Arabic

Sentence combining
Asking follow-up questions
SP- Tipos de preguntas
Value
Value
Bounce cards
Providing advice
Value
Arabic

French

Italian

Russian

Spanish

Send a problem

SP- Seamos buenos consejeros
Providing details
SP- Detalles
Value
Spanish

Russian

Portuguese

Italian

German

French

Chinese
Picture prompts
Narrating a story
​SP- Escritura narrativa

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SP- 5 dedos para recontar
CH- Chinese: Elements of a story

​FR-Les elements d'une histoire

FR- Une Histoire 

SP- Lo que paso en la historia

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SP- 
Elementos del cuento\

SP- La narracion​
Italian

Portuguese

Spanish
FR- Raconter avec mon partenaire

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Ball of Yarn

SP- Retelling a story cube​
Providing viewpoint and reasons to support it
FR- Convaincre tes lecteurs

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SP- Persuadir

SP- Una esquema para persuadir

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Value
Spanish

​French

ENG- Expressions to persuade 


ENG- Persuasive sentence starters


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Circle of Viewpoints

Pinwheel discussions

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True for Who?
Making predictions
SP- Hacer predicciones
FR- Mes prédictions
Value
 
Using circumlocution 
Value
FR- Quel est cet objet?

FR- Devine mon objet mystere

Spanish

French


Password
Comparing and contrasting
SP- Comparar y contrastar ​

FR- Comparer et contraster


SP- Comparar y contrastar 

PORT- similarities and differences

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​SP- Comparar y Contrastar
Value
Understanding an author's purpose
SP- Proposito del autor

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SP- Proposito del autor (2)

SP- Identificar el propósito del autor

Value
Summarizing
​SP- Resumen
Value
FR- Resumer

SP- Resumir
Three Minute Pause

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Somebody Wanted But So

Quick Summarizing Strategies
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Explaining and Clarifying
Value
GER- Clarify

​SP- Aclarar y explicar
SP-​Juego de explicaciones
  1. Preparing for Advanced
Skill
Anchor Charts
Graphic Organizers
Expression Lists
Strategies
Figurative language
SP- Lenguaje figurado

SP- Metafora
FR- Comparaisons et metaphores (VIdeo)
SP- Metaforas

SP- Similes
Conducting Research
FR- Etapes de recherche

FR- Etapes de recherche (2)


FR- Faire la recherche

SP- Como hacer una investigacion
 

SP- Hacer una investigacion

SP- Mi primer trabajo de investigacion

SP- El proceso de investigacion
Value
Advanced
Skill
Anchor Charts
Graphic Organizers
Expression Lists
Strategies
Participating in discussions and debates
Language for Classroom Discussions
Discussion graphic organizer
Discussion strategies
Asking probing questions
Questions for Critical Thinking
SP- Preguntas criticas
Question Starts

Questioning strategies 
Expressing hypotheses
FR- Faire des hypotheses
FR- Hypotheses de lecture (p. 22)
SP- Indicar hipotesis
Claim Support Questions
Using elaboration and giving detailed explanations
FR- Construire une phrase

SP- Pasos para elaborar

Value
ENG- Expanding sentences

​SP-
Alargamos oraciones
Pass-Pass-Synthesize
Presenting an argument
FR- Texte argumentatif

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SP- Piensa en Oreo
SP- ​Construyendo argumentos
FR- Comment rediger

FR- Argumenter par ecrit

GER- Making an argument
Debate Team Carousel
Inferring meaning from text
  • FR- ​Faire des inferences
​SP- Hacer una inferencia

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SP- Inferencias

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SP- Inferir


FR- Inférences
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SP- A inferir





SP- Preguntas inferenciales 

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Words to use when you infer
 
Negotiating to resolve a problem
Value
FR- Quel est le problème?

​SP- 
Problem and Solution organizer
Value
Does It Fit?
Citing Evidence
ENG- Text evidence

SP- Evidencia

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SP- Terminos basados en evidencia
SP- Citar evidencia

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SP- Respalda tu razonamiento



Responding to Student data webpage

Anchor Charts Pinterest board


Graphic Organizers (Pinterest board)

Graphic organizers (website)


Expressions lists Pinterest board

Thinking Strategies webpage

Cooperative Learning Strategies

Instructional Strategies for the Modes

Discussion strategies
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    • Student Engagement
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    • Flexible grouping
    • Student Reflection and Self-Assessment
    • Varied Approaches
    • Lesson and Unit Planning
    • Guided Instruction
    • Intentional Skill Building
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    • Immersion Resources
    • Designing Performance Tasks
  • 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
    • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in World Languages
  • Workshops
    • Creating Learner-Centered Language Classrooms
    • Engaging Through Interactive Planning and CI
    • Planning for Interactive Communicative Lessons
    • Building Literacy Skills in Language Classrooms
    • Moving Students Along the World Language Proficiency Continuum
    • Using Authentic Text in the WL Classroom
    • Expanding a Global Mentality: Culturally Responsive Teaching to Reach All Learners
    • Designing to Learn
    • Engaging All Learners
  • Blog
  • Reflection Spinner
  • Resources for the Shift to Online/Blended Learning
  • Supporting Teachers' Wellbeing