Spanish Archivo Curriculum for Spanish - Level 5 |
© 2013 by Kevin Cessna |
Standard: Interpersonal Communication |
Measurment Category 1.1:
Conversations |
Year 5 - Advanced |
While engaged in tasks involving interpersonal
communication, the student engages in detailed
conversations to demonstrate level appropriate language in culturally
authentic situations by being able to correctly: ·
make requests and ask
different types of questions in a variety of social situations ·
exchange detailed information and opinions on a variety of
topics ·
debate controversial topics ·
discuss cultural and political events ·
separate fact from fiction ·
discriminate between recommendations and requests ·
justify reasons for agreement or disagreement ·
use extended circumlocution
using a variety of synonyms and antonyms |
Standard:
Interpersonal Communication
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Measurement Category 1.2: Written or Oral Response |
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Year 5 |
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While engaged in tasks involving interpersonal
communication, the student demonstrates the ability to correctly write a level appropriate response based on a culturally authentic stimulus such as:
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Standard:
Interpersonal Communication
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Measurement Category 1.3: Paraphrasing |
Year 5 |
While engaged in tasks involving interpersonal
communication, the student demonstrates the ability to correctly: ·
paraphrase by interpreting author’s intent in own words |
Standard:
Interpretive Communication
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Measurement Category 2.1: Reading Comprehension |
Year 5 -
Advanced |
While engaged in tasks involving interpretive
communication, the student demonstrates the ability to: ·
understand
central messages (1) ·
extract
details (2) ·
combine
elements (3) ·
make
an inference (5) ·
make
a prediction (5) ·
make
a judgment (6) ·
respond
to the text (6) from reading authentic literary or informational
texts such as those found in Appendix A. |
Standard:
Interpretive Communication
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Measurement Category 2.2: Listening Comprehension |
Year 5 -
Advanced |
While engaged in tasks involving interpretive
communication, the student demonstrates the ability to ·
understand
central messages (1) ·
extract
details (2) ·
combine
elements (3) ·
make
an inference (5) ·
make
a prediction (5) ·
make
a judgment (6) ·
respond
to the text (6) from listening to authentic works such as those
found in Appendix B. |
Measurement Category 3.1: Sentence Development |
Year 5 |
While engaged in tasks involving presentational
communication, the student generates level
appropriate sentences in both writing and speaking including: ·
complex
structures with phrases ·
complex
structures with subordinate clauses ·
more complex
transitions within sentences ·
idiomatic
expressions |
Standard:
Presentational Communication |
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Measurement Category 3.2: Paragraph Development |
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Year 5 |
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While engaged in tasks involving presentational
communication, the student demonstrates level appropriate paragraph
development:
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Standard:
Culture |
Measurement Category 4.1: Cultural Products and Practices |
Year 5 |
While engaged in tasks involving culture, the
student demonstrates knowledge of cultural products and practices by being
able to correctly: ·
analyze (4) cultural practices ·
analyze (4) products, practices, perspectives and symbols ·
make
predictions (5) about factors that
influence culture (such as technology, immigration, emigration, government
and political systems, international markets) ·
explain (2) the interrelations among the practices,
products and perspectives of Hispanic cultures ·
analyze (4) the origin and impact of contributions from
other cultures ·
analyze (4) conflicts that occur within the
target culture and between the target and other cultures ·
explain (2) significant historical and political events in
the target culture |
Standard:
Comparisons |
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Measurement Category 5.2: Thematic Vocabulary |
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Standard: Comparisons |
Measurement Category 5.3: Contextual Vocabulary |
Year 5 |
While engaged in tasks involving comparisons, the
student demonstrates the ability to determine meaning
of level appropriate vocabulary as found in authentic texts, such as: ·
fiction (short
stories, plays, novels, modern poetry, lyrics) ·
non-fiction
texts (interviews, editorials, biographies, debates, news stories,
correspondence) ·
visual text
(cartoon, comic strip) |
Standard:
Comparisons |
Measurement Category 5.4: Translation |
Year 5 |
While engaged in tasks involving comparisons, the
student demonstrates the ability to translate
level appropriate texts from one language into another, including: ·
complex
structures ·
longer passages
from literary texts (fiction and non-fiction) |
Standard:
Comparisons |
Measurement Category 5.5: Grammar |
Year 5 |
While engaged in tasks involving comparisons, the student demonstrates
the ability to correctly apply, analyze, reorganize and compose using advanced
grammatical concepts. Topics at this level include everything from the previous four levels presented
in a more complex form through more sophisticated and idiomatic contexts. |
Appendix A: Authentic Materials as Sources for
Reading Comprehension
The following list gives examples of sources where teachers can find authentic materials for reading comprehension texts.
Informational Texts
A sign posted in
a (bakery, restaurant)
A schedule
A personal note,
letter, postcard
Instructions / directions (games)
Menus
Recipes
Receipts ( a series of check stubs)
Tickets
Manuals (driver’s, safety, instructional, product, games)
An online survey
A prescription
Labels (medical, food, nutritional, price, etc.)
A job application form (resumes, curriculum vitae)
Maps
A list of words or phrases
A poster (movie)
A narrative
A brochure
An excerpt from (excerpted from) or a passage from
an article
on nutrition
in a (hotel, cultural, entertainment) magazine
from a (local, national, international) newspaper
in a (health) digest
a letter to a friend
an essay
a (monthly, popular, science, airline) magazine
a (a short
section in a) book or novel
a (international) newspaper
an editorial
An ad
(advertisement) or notice
in a neighborhood newspaper
for a website (for television, a movie)
in a newspaper (online or published)
personal (that appeared in a Spanish publication in the
on a bulletin board
for travelers (such as an announcement on a plane)
the (food, movie, music) section of a newspaper
A website
A blog
Literary Texts
An excerpt from (excerpted from) or a passage from
a short
story
a fable
a poem
song
lyrics
a legend
a fable
a fairy
tale
a novel
a play
Appendix B: Authentic Materials as Sources for
Listening Comprehension
The following list gives examples of sources where teachers can find authentic materials for audio clips for listening comprehension texts.
A conversation
in a (bakery, restaurant, airport, classroom, etc….)
between (two friends, a mother and her son, a teacher and a student, etc….)
A description of (a person, a thing, a place, an event)
A voice mail
An announcement
(airport, train station, school, emergency)
A set of
instructions / directions
A film, a television program or a video clip
A narrative
An excerpt or a passage from
a news bulletin
a radio
broadcast
(traffic, weather, sports, interview, commercials)
an audio clip on the Internet
an article
a letter
a magazine
a book
a novel
a play
a newspaper
an editorial
a short story
a poem
a legend
a fable
a fairy tale
a website
a podcast
a weather
report
a popular song