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Curriculum for Spanish - Level 5

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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

Measurement Category 1.2:  Written or Oral Response

Year 5

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:

Standard:  Interpersonal Communication

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

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

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.

Standard:  Presentational Communication

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

Measurement Category 3.2:  Paragraph Development

Year 5

While engaged in tasks involving presentational communication, the student demonstrates level appropriate paragraph development:

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

Measurement Category 5.2:  Thematic Vocabulary

Level 5

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.