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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
    • Designing Tasks Around Authentic Resources: One Stop Shop
  • 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

Tools for Scaffolding and Supporting

​ Learners
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Habits of good language learners
Word walls and desk strips
Chat mats
Communicative skill builders
Graphic organizers
Picture description frames
Scaffolding

6 Scaffolding strategies to use with your students

Guiding students to be independent learners

18 Ways to Scaffold Learning in the Classroom

​Extend your students' reach and move them toward independence

​How to develop independent learners


 
Habits of Good Language Learners

Ten Characteristics of the Good Language Learner

14 Characteristics of a Good Language Learner

Characteristics of Successful Language Learners
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Link to Pinterest board
Picture
lang_learn_growth_mind_ms.pdf
File Size: 700 kb
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Elementary versions of the Language Learners with a Growth Mindset poster
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Elementary poster
lang_learn_growth_mind_elem_color.pdf
File Size: 605 kb
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Elementary poster with pictures
lang_learn_growth_mind_elem_color_with_pics.pdf
File Size: 755 kb
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Elementary poster trace and color
lang_learn_growth_mind_elem_trace_and_color_2.pdf
File Size: 817 kb
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Elementary poster missing phrases with pictures only
lang_learn_growth_mind_elem_blank_pics.pdf
File Size: 168 kb
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Word Walls

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Virtual word wall for Arabic

Virtual word wall for ASL

Virtual word wall for Chinese

Virtual word wall for French

Virtual word wall for Elementary French

Virtual word wall for German

Virtual word wall for Greek

Virtual word wall for Italian

Virtual word wall for Japanese

Virtual word wall for Latin

Virtual word wall for Portuguese

Virtual word wall for Russian

Virtual word wall for Spanish

Virtual word wall for Elementary Spanish


French desk strips with rejoinders

​French desk strips with common vocabulary
 
Chat Mats
Pinterest boards with chat mats and expression lists by language
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Chat mat template (Canva)

Chat mat template 2 (Canva)

Chat mat template 2 (OER Commons)

​Interactive chat mat (French greetings)

Chat mats by Bethanie Drew

Chat mats (for many LCT languages)

Spanish speaking mat for group talk

Stinky cheese day chat mat

Summer chat mats- Carnegie Learning (English, French, Spanish)
Spanish word wall printable
gconti_wordwall_0816.pdf
File Size: 86 kb
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Google Drive folder of French and Spanish classroom posters by Martina Bex
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Free posters for your Spanish classroom
 

Communicative Skill Builders


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hcpss_wl_csb_fr_1_1115a.pdf
File Size: 69 kb
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French I CSB
ap_wl_csb_it_i.pdf
File Size: 108 kb
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Italian 1 CSB
communicative_skill_builder_ch_1-1.pdf
File Size: 39 kb
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Chinese 1 CSB
ap_wl_csb_fr_4___5ap.pdf
File Size: 88 kb
File Type: pdf
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spanish_2_csb_hcpss.pdf
File Size: 150 kb
File Type: pdf
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French 4 and AP CSB

​Spanish 2 CSB
hcpss_wl_csb_spanish_3_1115_v1.pdf
File Size: 85 kb
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Spanish 3 CSB
csb_german_1_2.pdf
File Size: 44 kb
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German 1 and 2 CSB
 

Graphic Organizers

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ACTFL Graphic Organizers

Downloadable and Editable Graphic Organizers from CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition)


Graphic organizers
Graphic organizers 2
Graphic organizers- Scholastic
​French graphic organizers
Graphic organizers to enhance thinking skills
46 Graphic organizers
Russian graphic organizers
More French graphic organizers
Even more French graphic organizers
​Italian graphic organizers
Spanish graphic organizers
More Italian graphic organizers
Chinese Graphic Organizers
And more Spanish organizers
More Spanish graphic organizers
Value
​Rutinas de pensamiento
Value
KWL in Spanish

KWL in French​​

KWL in German

​KWL in Arabic


15 Free Google Drawings graphic organizers (editable)
Blank editable graphic organizers
blank_graphic_organizers_.pptx
File Size: 260 kb
File Type: pptx
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​Picture description frames (Speaking and Writing)

describe_pic_frame_french.pdf
File Size: 27 kb
File Type: pdf
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French
describe_pic_frame_chinese.pdf
File Size: 28 kb
File Type: pdf
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Chinese
describe_pic_frame_spanish.pdf
File Size: 28 kb
File Type: pdf
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Spanish
describe_pic_frame_italian.pdf
File Size: 26 kb
File Type: pdf
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Italian
describe_pic_frame_-_وصف_إطار_الصّورة_.pdf
File Size: 84 kb
File Type: pdf
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Arabic
picture_frame_description.png
File Size: 635 kb
File Type: png
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German
_describe_picture_frame_japanese_nmoriyama.pdf
File Size: 69 kb
File Type: pdf
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Japanese

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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
    • Designing Tasks Around Authentic Resources: One Stop Shop
  • 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