Building Community through Language Learning Glastonbury Public Schools .

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Building Community through Language Learning Glastonbury Public Schools www.foreignlanguage.org

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Support literacy through increased exposure to language-rich texts and activities. Celebrate accompanying languages and cultures by cross-age, cross-ability projects. Promote language learning across levels by developing relationships between students. Aims of the project

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Building Community through Language Learning

Glastonbury Public Schools

www.foreignlanguage.org

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PresentersRebecca ComenaleSpanish Teacher/ Glastonbury High [email protected] ZingleSpanish Teacher/ Glastonbury High [email protected]

Partner teacherPatty SilveySpanish teacher/ Hopewell [email protected]

Rita OleksakDirector Foreign Languages and ELL/Glastonbury Public [email protected]

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Support literacy through increased exposure to language-rich texts and activities.

Celebrate accompanying languages and cultures by cross-age, cross-ability projects.

Promote language learning across levels by developing relationships between students.

Aims of the project

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BackgroundUnderstanding by Design

Essential questions • Spanish 6-How are we transformed by our study of

languages and cultures?• Spanish 3rd grade-What do learn from our global

community?

FLES programHistory of book project

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How we got startedJoint objective between three teachers across two grade levels (3rd and 12th grades)

“Grand plans”Successes and challenges

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Activity #1

“¡Hola amigos!”Information from "mi amigo"

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Activity #2Book recording

“Books on tape”

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Activity #3Games designed around 1st-3rd grade units of study

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Activity #4Seniors wrote books through collaboration with 3rd graders

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Activity #5Ideas and suggestions

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Our Funding •District Foreign Language Budget

(Glastonbury Public Schools)

•PTSO Grant

(Parent Teacher Student Organization supporting Glastonbury High School.)

•NADSFL

(National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Languages)