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  • WLPD4U
  • Instruction
    • Lessons based on authentic resources
    • Proficiency
    • Communicative Modes
    • Target Language
    • Scaffolds and Supports
    • Tiering Tasks and Text
    • Interpretive Mode
    • Authentic Resources
      • Songs and Poetry
    • Intercultural Communication
    • Continuous Assessment
    • Assessment in World Languages
    • Responding to Student Data
    • Feedback
    • Grammar in Context
    • Questioning and Discussion
    • Differentiated Instruction
    • Learning Centers
    • Supportive Learning Environment
    • Knowing the Learner
    • Student Engagement
    • Student Choice
    • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Lesson and Unit Planning



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ACTFL The Keys to Planning for Learning: link to online resources

Lesson Plan Templates

Lesson Plan Template: ACTFL The Keys to Planning for Learning

Unit Plan Template: ACTFL The Keys to Planning for Learning
World Languages Sample Lesson Template
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Unit Plan Thinking Template
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Strategies that Gain Attention and Activate Prior Knowledge
(Lesson hooks, Warm-ups, Lesson Openings)
​*click on links for resources, examples, ideas, and templates
Students respond to a question of the day
Lead students in a brainstorming activity

Have students react to a meme, quote or joke
Conduct a guessing game
You can only keep 2 or 3
Open the lesson with a positive, encouraging message in the target language
This or That?
One Must Go/ One Has to Go/One Gotta Go 
You can only pick one
Would you rather?
Caption This!
Emoji story
"On a scale of" check in 
Writing or speaking prompt
Free speaking or writing task using a visual
​Have students respond to a survey
Students interpret a social media post (for examples scroll down to section "Authentic Resources from Social Media")
​Conduct a directed drawing activity
​Tell or read a story
​Show a commercial or video clip
Using memes in the target language as lesson openings:

  • French memes and quotes
 
  • German memes and quotes
 
  • Italian memes and quotes
 
  • Spanish memes and quotes

  • Chinese memes and quotes

  • Portuguese memes and quotes

KWL Charts

KWL in Spanish

KWL in French​​

KWL in German


Strategies for the Modes of Communication

ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages​

Modes of communication


Interpersonal Strategies

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Interpersonal Strategies


Interpretive Strategies​
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Interpretive Strategies

Authentic Resources
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Presentational Strategies
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Presentational Strategies

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Flexible grouping and cooperative learning lesson segments 

Strategies

Additional Strategies

Hands-on Strategies, Games, and Movement

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Closure activities

Closure activities ideas

22 Powerful Closure Activities

40 Ways to Leave a Lesson

Lesson Closure Activities

Strategies for Effective Closure

​Exit Tickets


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Learning targets

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NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements

Developing​ Learning Targets infographic


Performance Tasks
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Designing performance tasks
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Sample performance tasks


Comprehensible Input

Resources

Checking for understanding

Formative assessments


Understanding By Design/Backward Design


What is the UbD Framework?

UbD Tool Kit Live Binder

Understanding by Design Vanderbilt University website

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UbD Unit Template
Examples of Authentic Resources Embedded into Lesson Plans
Phase of lesson
Activity type
Example
Introductory
Lesson hook
https://passion4theprofession.com/2018/02/06/how-do-i-incorporate-authentic-text-into-my-daily-lesson-plans-part-1/(Scenario 2)
Value
Introducing vocabulary
https://passion4theprofession.com/2018/02/06/how-do-i-incorporate-authentic-text-into-my-daily-lesson-plans-part-1/ (Scenario 1)

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https://passion4theprofession.com/2018/08/24/using-authentic-resources-for-vocabulary-input-and-reinforcement/
Value
Connect new content with prior learning
https://passion4theprofession.com/2018/02/06/how-do-i-incorporate-authentic-text-into-my-daily-lesson-plans-part-1/ (Scenario 3)
Value
Grammar in context
https://passion4theprofession.com/2018/07/27/teaching-grammar-in-context-using-authentic-resources-part-2/
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Guided
Modeling routines
https://passion4theprofession.com/2018/05/04/using-authentic-text-in-guided-activities/
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Using graphic organizers
https://passion4theprofession.com/2018/05/04/using-authentic-text-in-guided-activities/
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Independent
Assessment tasks
https://passion4theprofession.com/2018/09/21/creating-performance-tasks-and-assessments-using-authentic-text/
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Value
Learning Centers
https://passion4theprofession.com/2019/03/15/basing-learning-centers-on-authentic-text-part-3/
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https://passion4theprofession.com/2018/10/19/basing-learning-centers-on-authentic-text-part-2/
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Discussions
https://passion4theprofession.com/2018/07/27/teaching-grammar-in-context-using-authentic-resources-part-2/
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Springboard into interpersonal or presentational tasks
https://passion4theprofession.com/2018/05/31/using-authentic-text-as-a-springboard-to-interpersonal-tasks/
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Independent reading
https://passion4theprofession.com/2018/05/11/independent-reading-building-students-confidence-in-interpreting-authentic-texts/
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Tiered tasks
https://passion4theprofession.com/2018/05/18/tiering-tasks-for-authentic-text-to-meet-the-needs-of-all-learners/
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Tiered text
https://passion4theprofession.com/2018/05/25/tiering-authentic-text-to-meet-the-needs-of-all-learners/
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    • Scaffolds and Supports
    • Tiering Tasks and Text
    • Interpretive Mode
    • Authentic Resources
      • Songs and Poetry
    • Intercultural Communication
    • Continuous Assessment
    • Assessment in World Languages
    • Responding to Student Data
    • Feedback
    • Grammar in Context
    • Questioning and Discussion
    • Differentiated Instruction
    • Learning Centers
    • Supportive Learning Environment
    • Knowing the Learner
    • Student Engagement
    • Student Choice
    • 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
  • 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
  • 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