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    • Interpretive Mode
    • Authentic Resources
    • Intercultural Communication
    • Continuous Assessment
    • Assessment in World Languages
    • Responding to Student Data
    • Feedback
    • Grammar in Context
    • Questioning and Discussion
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    • Thinking Strategies
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    • Designing Performance Tasks
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  • 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
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    • Designing to Learn
    • Engaging All Learners
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Addressing the Interpretive Mode

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The Interpretive Mode
World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages (summary)

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements

Guiding Principles for Language Learning

Core Practices for World Language Learning

The Three Modes of Communication

Interpretive Strategies
Developing  students' interpretive communication skills self-assessment
goal_setting_interpretive_skill_building.docx
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What can novices do with text?
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Instructional Strategies that build interpretive skills

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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)
Categorical Highlighting

Text Mark Up (see below)
Most Important Word
Picture Dictation (see below)
Step Left/Step Right (see below)
See, Think, Wonder 





Card Sort
Running Dictation
I Have, Who Has/Whip Around
Dictogloss
Plus-Minus-Delta/Plus-Minus-Interesting
Somebody-Wanted-But-So
Concept Circles
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Magnet Summaries
Symbol Notes
​SPUNKI
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Opinion Twins (see below)
Talk-Read-Talk-Write

Situation bags (see below)
CUS and Discuss



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lang_learn_growth_mind_ms.pdf
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Language Learners poster
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unknown_word_flowchart.pdf
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Reading poster

Reading Resources
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Picture
Reading Resources by Language

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Spanish
Picture
French
Picture
German
Picture
Chinese, Italian, Portuguese

Before, during, and after reading activities
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103 things to do before/during/after reading (67 things adapted for second language classroom)

Sample during reading/listening/viewing worksheet 

Dado de comprensión (After reading)

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Before reading choice board (French)
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During reading activities
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After reading choice board
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Before, during, and after reading choice board
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Daily Five

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The Daily Café

Anchor Charts Pinterest board

Daily 5 Pinterest board

Daily 5 editable bilingual T-charts (Teachers Pay Teachers-free!)

Daily Five resources in French

The Daily 5 Classroom Pack Spanish Version (free)​

Spanish Daily 5 Posters. (free)

Literature Circles

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Literature Circle Roles

Literature Circle Process

Literature Circles Teaching Resources

Literature Circles Resource Center

Literature Circles User Guide

The Power of Literature Circles in the Classroom

Literature Circle Role Cards

Literature Circles Role Sheets
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French

Les Cercles de Lecture

Matérial pour l'utilisation du cercle de lecture
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Cercle de Lecture: Roles

Le Cercle de Lecture

Spanish

Circulos literarios

Circulos de Lectura
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Literature Circles Sentence Starters
literature_circles_pd_sentence_starters.pdf
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Reciprocal Teaching

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Reciprocal Teaching (background information)

Reciprocal Teaching (bookmark)

Reciprocal Teaching (worksheet)

Reciprocal Teaching (handout)

The Fab Four: Reciprocal Teaching Strategies

Reciprocal Teaching handout

Reciprocal Teaching

Reciprocal Reading Job Cards

Reciprocal Teaching Infographic

Reciprocal Teaching Prompt Cards

Why Reciprocal Teaching (Educational Leadership)

French resources

Enseignement Réciproque (lots of resources in French)

Les Quatre Stratégies de l'Enseignement Réciproque (chart)

Enseignement Réciproque

Enseignement Réciproque (module)



Tech tools for supporting interpretive skills
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Tech tool
Before
During
After
Example
​Padlet:
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students make predictions about text using cues
Screencastify, 
Educreations 
Explain Everything 
Show Me
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students record their screens to summarize the text and can highlight parts of the text
EdWordle
Word It Out, 
Tagxedo 
Word Art 
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students create word clouds of important words and phrases from text
Prezi 
Buncee
​Sway
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students create an interactive presentation about the text
Jeopardy Labs

Factile
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students create a jeopardy game as a review of the text
​Mindmeister

Dot Storming

Popplet
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students create webs of ideas from the text
Smore
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students create an online poster/newsletter about the text
Quizlet
Quizlet Live
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Quizizz, 
Quizalize 
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Nearpod
Pear Deck
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​checking for understanding of text
Plickers, 
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Kahoot
Go Formative
Wooclap
x
checking for understanding of text
Make Beliefs Comix, 
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Comic Life
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students create a comic strip about the text
​Piktochart

Easelly

Venngage
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students create an infographic about the text
​Glogster.edu
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sstudents create an interactive poster about the text
Wix
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students create a webpage about the text
Issuu
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students create an online magazine about the text
Any Flip
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students create an interactive flip book about the text
Texting story

​iFakeText

Zeoob

Instagram story template

Texting story maker

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students write social media posts about the text
Voicethread, 
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​Flipgrid
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students respond to a prompt about the text and respond to classmates' posts
Edpuzzle
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Textivate
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teacher creates interactive questions to check comprehension
​Mentimeter

​Slido
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students create an interactive presentation about the text including audience participation
Storybird

Story Board That
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students create a book about the text
Edji
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students annotate the text while reading
Extempore

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Puppet Pals

Voki

Blabberize
Value
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students create a presentational speaking performance about the text
Whiteboard.fi
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students take visual notes on a whiteboard app while reading
Picture

Listening Strategies

How Do You Know They Are Listening? (Prezi presentation)

Listening Skills in the Foreign Language Classroom

How Can Teachers Teach Listening?

Building Language Skills Part 1 Listening

So, how do we "teach" listening?


Do you hear what I hear?  8 Activities to Improve Listening Skills

Why is listening important?

21 Listening Comprehension Activities for the Elementary Foreign Language Classroom


The Best Ways to Build Student’s Interpretive Listening Skills
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    • 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
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