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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
    • 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
  • Reflection Spinner

Moving Students Along the
Proficiency Continuum


I. What is the proficiency continuum?

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ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages

ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements

21st Century World Languages Skills Map

2. What are my goals for my students?
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Performance vs. Proficiency (p. 4-5)
3. How will I communicate about proficiency levels to my students?
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4. What instructional practices will lead students to move along the proficiency continuum?
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a. Target Language

ACTFL Position on Use of Target Language in the Classroom

Use of target language

Going for 90%+: How to Stay in the Target Language

b. Comprehensible Input

Comprehensible Input Checklist

Making Language Comprehensible

Creating Comprehensible Input and Output

c. Authentic Resources

Authentic Texts Video

Authentic Resources by Language and AP Theme

French movie posters

Authentic Resources infographic

Authentic Resources infographic 2

d. Tiering

Tiered Instruction: Beginning the Process

Critical Questions about Tiered Lessons

Tiered Instruction and Assessment

Tiered Assignments: A Foundational Approach 

Vocabulary for developing tiered questions and tiered assignments 

Tiered Assignment by Content, Process, and Product- Elementary 

Tiered Activity Planning Template
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Tiered Activity Planning Template 2

Infographics
Infographics in World Languages: Spanish Pinterest Board

Infographics in World Languages: French Pinterest Board

Infographics in World Languages: German Pinterest Board

Infographics in World Languages: Italian Pinterest Board

Infographics in World Languages: Other Languages Pinterest Board


5. How do I assess student proficiency?

Samples of student work at various proficiency levels

Performance Tasks and Integrated Performance Assessments

ACTFL Assessment of Performance toward Proficiency in Languages (AAPPL)

Avant STAndards-based Measure of Proficiency (STAMP)
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 6. Skills-focused activities
Interpersonal

Conversation Circles


Information Gap Activities

Inside-Outside Circles

Password

Discussion Continuum

Think-Pair-Share-Square

Walk and Talk

Give Me A Hint


Three Step Interview

People Bingo/Find Someone Who

Accountable Talk

Speed Dating

Fan-N-Pick

Mock Job Interviews





Interpretive

Active Reading

Think/Write Aloud


Jigsaw

Visual Notetaking

1-2-3

Say Something

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

Picture Prompts

Text Mark Up


Most Important Word

Card Sort

Running Dictation

I Have, Who Has/Whip Around

Dictogloss








Presentational

Brainwriting

Sentence Combining

Mad Libs


Dialogue Journals

Building Blocks

Round Robin Writing

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Talking Chips

Bounce Cards

Conversation Jenga

Graffiti Tables

Ball of yarn

Story/Conversation Strips

Word Cloud Build-a-Story

Gallery Walk

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    • 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
  • WLPD4U
  • Blog
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