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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…

Flyswatter Enhanced

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

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…

Keep the Conversation Going

The purpose of this activity is to allow students to say everything they know how to say about a topic. This activity allows …

Numbered Heads Together

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

Peer Interviews

An interview is one-to-one, person-to-person communication and consists of a question or series of questions that are asked in…

Say Something Reading Strategy

"Say Something" is an interpretive reading strategy that allows learners to increase understanding of the text as they read…

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Mode of Communication

  • Interpersonal (7)
  • Interpretive (6)
  • Presentational (2)

Performance Range

  • Novice (4)
  • Intermediate (6)
  • Advanced (2)

Grade Level

  • (-) 3-5 (6)
  • 6-8 (13)
  • (-) 9-12 (13)
  • (-) K-2 (2)
  • (-) Undergraduate (13)

Classroom Setting

  • Face-to-Face (14)
  • (-) Online (13)

GRR Stage

  • (-) I do (4)
  • We do (3)
  • You do alone (4)
  • (-) You do together (9)

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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