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Authentic Informational Texts on Pinterest
FFLA 10/10/2014 Jackie Bronkie, Victoria Toste, Stephanie Shepherd
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Connect to wifi Go to pinterest.com Register Go to your Answer the confirmation Go to our Pinterest site: World Languages Teachers of PBC
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“Pinteresting" for interesting authentic resources
Using Pinterest in the world language classroom: “Pinteresting" for interesting authentic resources
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Pinterest is a sophisticated and virtually organized method of storing information from the internet used by world language teachers around the globe.
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Why Pinterest? Authentic Resources Curation
Organize Lessons & Resources Connect with Colleagues/Associations
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Why authentic resources?
Informational Text Embedded Cultural Context Comprehensive Input Required by LAFS and WL NGSS Standards
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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.
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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.
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Standards (the 5 modes)
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Benchmarks
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What are authentic resources?
Our standards demand we use culturally authentic resources. not everything in the language is authentic!
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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
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Planning an Interpretive Task
Goal: Reading Comprehension Unit: Food
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How did we select the resource?
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Why this resource?
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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
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How was this resource chosen?
Maintentant, en français! How was this resource chosen?
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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
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Q & A Go forth and pin!
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