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  • 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
    • 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
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Lesson and Unit Planning

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Starting the new school year
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Ideas and resources for the first days of world language class
World Language Syllabi

Class norms

Benefits of language study

Learning about proficiency

Building relationships and classroom community
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Opening slides templates
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Getting ready for the new school year
Learning targets

​NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements

Make your can-do statements communicative (World Language Classroom podcast: Episode 18)

Understanding performance indicators and can-do statements (NYSED)

Five steps for reimagining world-language learning goals

Unit and Lesson Planning

Sample unit and lesson plans (Georgia Department of Education)

Sample curriculum (Williamson Co, TN)

Sample curriculum (FIU)

Sample curriculum (Shelby County, TN)

Sample unit plans (NYSED Live Binder)

Sample unit plans (Massachusetts DESE)- click on "sample aligned units

Sample thematic units (South Carolina)

World Language Thematic Units (Nebraska)

Lesson Plan Templates
World Languages Sample Lesson Template
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World Languages Unit Plan Thinking Template
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World Language Lesson Plan Template- 45 min classes (Grahn)
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World Language Lesson Plan Template- 90 min classes (Grahn)
Generic world language lesson progression (Grahn)
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World Language Lesson Plan Reflection Checklist (Grahn)
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Lesson plan template for World Languages (Shelby Co)

​Lesson plan template for World Languages (Atlanta Public Schools)

World Language Lesson plan template (Colorado Department of Education)

World Language Unit Plan template (NYSED)

World Language Lesson Plan template (NYSED)

Social Justice Lesson Plan template (CARLA)

World Languages Unit Planner (Louisiana Department of Education)

World Languages Lesson Planner (Louisiana Department of Education)

Unit Alignment Guide (Massachusetts DESE)


​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 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 
​Conduct a directed drawing activity
​Tell or read a story
​Show a commercial or video clip
10 digital bellringer activities

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​Mystery Item/Person Guessing Game Scaffolds and Supports:
 
French circumlocution phrases

French circumlocution phrases 2 

Spanish circumlocution poster

Spanish circumlocution list

Spanish circumlocution list 2
 
German describing pictures

French describing a photo
 
Spanish describing objects
 
Spanish describing objects 2
 
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

​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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Guided Instruction
Intentional skill building

​Closure activities

Closure activities ideas

22 Powerful Closure Activities

40 Ways to Leave a Lesson

Strategies for Effective Closure

​Exit Tickets

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Performance Tasks
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Designing performance tasks
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Sample performance tasks


Comprehensible Input

Resources

Checking for understanding

Formative assessments
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)

​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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Understanding By Design/Backward Design

What is the UbD Framework?

UbD Tool Kit Live Binder

Understanding by Design Vanderbilt University website

​UbD Unit Template

Essential Questions for Content Themes padlet

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    • 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
    • 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
  • Blog
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