building community through language learning glastonbury public schools
DESCRIPTION
Support literacy through increased exposure to language-rich texts and activities. Celebrate accompanying languages and cultures by cross-age, cross-ability projects. Promote language learning across levels by developing relationships between students. Aims of the projectTRANSCRIPT
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Building Community through Language Learning
Glastonbury Public Schools
www.foreignlanguage.org
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PresentersRebecca ComenaleSpanish Teacher/ Glastonbury High [email protected] ZingleSpanish Teacher/ Glastonbury High [email protected]
Partner teacherPatty SilveySpanish teacher/ Hopewell [email protected]
Rita OleksakDirector Foreign Languages and ELL/Glastonbury Public [email protected]
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Support literacy through increased exposure to language-rich texts and activities.
Celebrate accompanying languages and cultures by cross-age, cross-ability projects.
Promote language learning across levels by developing relationships between students.
Aims of the project
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BackgroundUnderstanding by Design
Essential questions • Spanish 6-How are we transformed by our study of
languages and cultures?• Spanish 3rd grade-What do learn from our global
community?
FLES programHistory of book project
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How we got startedJoint objective between three teachers across two grade levels (3rd and 12th grades)
“Grand plans”Successes and challenges
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Activity #1
“¡Hola amigos!”Information from "mi amigo"
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Activity #2Book recording
“Books on tape”
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Activity #3Games designed around 1st-3rd grade units of study
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Activity #4Seniors wrote books through collaboration with 3rd graders
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Activity #5Ideas and suggestions
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Our Funding •District Foreign Language Budget
(Glastonbury Public Schools)
•PTSO Grant
(Parent Teacher Student Organization supporting Glastonbury High School.)
•NADSFL
(National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Languages)