1. Authentic Informational Texts on Pinterest
FFLA 10/10/2014
Jackie Bronkie, Victoria Toste, Stephanie Shepherd

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Go to our Pinterest site: World Languages Teachers of PBC

3. “Pinteresting" for interesting authentic resources
Using Pinterest in the world language classroom:
“Pinteresting" for interesting authentic resources

4. Pinterest is a sophisticated and virtually organized method of storing information from the internet used by world language teachers around the globe.

5. Why Pinterest? Authentic Resources Curation
Organize Lessons & Resources
Connect with Colleagues/Associations

6. Why authentic resources?
Informational Text
Embedded Cultural Context
Comprehensive Input
Required by LAFS and WL NGSS Standards

7. Why authentic resources? (more)
Instructional Shifts for 21st Century Standards:
Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction (Authentic Informational Text)
Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational
Regular engagement with complex text and its academic language.

8. Meeting the standards
The World Languages Standards reflect the sequence of language acquisition, and require culturally authentic texts and language.
The World Language Benchmarks reflect the stages of language acquisition.

9. Standards (the 5 modes)

10. Benchmarks

11. What are authentic resources?
Our standards demand we use culturally authentic resources.
not everything in the language is authentic!

13. Non-authentic vs. Authentic
No context, no purpose, not for native speakers
VS.
By native speakers, in context, for native speakers, for a purpose, culture is embedded

16. Planning an Interpretive Task
Goal: Reading Comprehension Unit: Food

17. How did we select the resource?

18. Why this resource?

20. Reviewing the text Look closely at the text
Who’s the audience?/ What kind of text is this?
How is it organized: pictures, titles, subtitles, chronological order, cause and effect, text type?
Predict the Main Idea/Theme (as the standard states)
Look for familiar words & cognates
Use the Graphics
Recognize text features
Tell the basic ideas

21. How was this resource chosen?
Maintentant, en français!
How was this resource chosen?

22. Who you should follow on Pinterest
Emily Carrillo
Catherine Maudet
Bernadette Touchard
Sharon Birch
Terri Sears
Julie Jezuit
Jackie Bronkie
Victoria Toste (French Toste)
Stephanie Shepherd
Organizations : ACTFL and SCOLT

23. Q & A
Go forth and pin!