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Authentic / Integrated Lesson Design Template
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New and Improved!
Love the idea of using authentic resources in your lessons, but aren't sure how to create a lesson based on one? Want to push your authentic lessons to the next level? This template is designed to help you think about all of the aspects that are necessary to make a beautifully integrated world language lesson based on the authentic resource of your choice.
Communicative Focus: Interpretive, Interpersonal and Presentational Modes
Language Concept: Any or your choice
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New Item!
New and Improved!
Love the idea of using authentic resources in your lessons, but aren't sure how to create a lesson based on one? Want to push your authentic lessons to the next level? This template is designed to help you think about all of the aspects that are necessary to make a beautifully integrated world language lesson based on the authentic resource of your choice.
Communicative Focus: Interpretive, Interpersonal and Presentational Modes
Language Concept: Any or your choice
Click on the title to download.
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The Conversation Gauge
Keep a whole class in the TL with this powerpoint. Show it on the screen or monitor. When you hear English, take points away. If they redeem themselves by using some amazing target language, add points. Fully editable in Powerpoint.
Communicative Focus: Class discussions and conversations, Asking / Responding to questions
Language Concept: Any or your choice
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Keep a whole class in the TL with this powerpoint. Show it on the screen or monitor. When you hear English, take points away. If they redeem themselves by using some amazing target language, add points. Fully editable in Powerpoint.
Communicative Focus: Class discussions and conversations, Asking / Responding to questions
Language Concept: Any or your choice
Click on the title to download.
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Speaking Strips
Establishing a classroom atmosphere in which the target language is the default language for you and your students is a challenging task. Sometimes our students need incentive to use the language with their classmates when we are acting as facilitators. These strips are great for holding students accountable for using the target language as well as giving you an opportunity to create a performance based daily grade. Use them with groups or individuals. It is your choice!
Communicative Focus: Conversations and discussions
Language Concept: Any / Your choice
Click on the title to download.
Establishing a classroom atmosphere in which the target language is the default language for you and your students is a challenging task. Sometimes our students need incentive to use the language with their classmates when we are acting as facilitators. These strips are great for holding students accountable for using the target language as well as giving you an opportunity to create a performance based daily grade. Use them with groups or individuals. It is your choice!
Communicative Focus: Conversations and discussions
Language Concept: Any / Your choice
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The Conversation Circle Rubric
Would you like to get your students to not only participate in, but lead their own class discussions? This rubric provides you and your students a template to follow to generate the criteria you all agree they should be held accountable for so that you can sit back and enjoy seeing them own their own learning. This item works in any language and almost every level.
Communicative Focus: Asking / responding to questions, Elaboration, Expressing thoughts / opinions
Language Concept: Any or your choice
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Would you like to get your students to not only participate in, but lead their own class discussions? This rubric provides you and your students a template to follow to generate the criteria you all agree they should be held accountable for so that you can sit back and enjoy seeing them own their own learning. This item works in any language and almost every level.
Communicative Focus: Asking / responding to questions, Elaboration, Expressing thoughts / opinions
Language Concept: Any or your choice
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The Authentic / Integrated Lesson Cycle
Developing lessons based on authentic resources or that integrate all the communication modes can be challenging at times, but this flow chart can help you design rich learning experiences for your students. Pair this with the Authentic Lesson Template to help you start planning integrated lessons today!
Communicative Focus: Integrating the communicative modes
Language Concept: Any or your choice
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Developing lessons based on authentic resources or that integrate all the communication modes can be challenging at times, but this flow chart can help you design rich learning experiences for your students. Pair this with the Authentic Lesson Template to help you start planning integrated lessons today!
Communicative Focus: Integrating the communicative modes
Language Concept: Any or your choice
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