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Classroom Activities

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Beginning, Middle, End

In this activity, students carefully examine an image or a piece of artwork that is culturally authentic and has an emotional…

Chat Stations

Chat stations are low-prep, small-group discussions on different topics that allow students to practice asking and answering…

Jigsaw: Base Groups/Expert Groups

The purpose of this activity is twofold: first, to comprehend and infer meaning from a text by becoming an expert on a portion…

Listen and Draw

The purpose of the activity is to have each individual student demonstrate understanding while interpreting words or sentences…

Numbered Heads Together

This cooperative listening and speaking strategy provides opportunities for practice, rehearsal, and repetition or discussion…

Sorting into Categories

In this activity, students categorize the words/language chunks to be sorted according to a feature that is common to all the…

Story Maps

A story map is graphic representation of the structure of a story. The graphic makes clear the language elements of the story…

Story Sequencing

The purpose of this activity is for students to demonstrate understanding of a text or other authentic resource by sequencing…

Pagination

    • Current page 1
    • Page 2
    • Next page Next
    • Last page Last

Mode of Communication

  • Interpersonal (4)
  • Interpretive (5)
  • Presentational (2)

Performance Range

  • Novice (2)
  • Intermediate (5)
  • Advanced (1)

Grade Level

  • 3-5 (4)
  • 6-8 (9)
  • 9-12 (9)
  • K-2 (1)
  • Undergraduate (9)

Classroom Setting

  • Face-to-Face (10)
  • (-) Online (9)

GRR Stage

  • (-) I do (4)
  • We do (4)
  • You do alone (6)
  • (-) You do together (5)

Classroom grouping

  • (-) Individual (5)
  • Pairs (10)
  • (-) Small group (6)
  • Whole class (15)

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STARTALK is a project funded by the National Security Agency and administered by the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. STARTALK’s mission is to increase the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking, and teaching critical-need foreign languages, with programs for students (K-16) and teachers. MORE

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