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¡Bienvenidos al rincón de español!
Welcome to Glennwood's Spanish Program!
Spanish is the most widely spoken language in the world! Your student is a valued part of this exceptional Spanish program!
Rationale
- Second language fluency helps learners be competitive in the 21st century.
- Foreign language study can increase capacity for critical and creative thinking skills.
- Children who have studied a foreign language in elementary school achieve expected gains and score higher on standardized tests of reading, language arts, and mathematics than children who have not studied a foreign language.
Program Overview
- The long-range goal of the program is to produce fluent users of Spanish by successfully articulating the program in grades K-12. This year, we have four Spanish lessons in our 6-day rotation schedule. Each Spanish class is 30 minutes.
- The lessons are taught 90% in Spanish.
- Activities in the Spanish classroom parallel and support regular classroom instruction and EL education.
Program Guidelines Related to Curriculum
- Help learners to clarify meaning and express understanding without translation.
- Provide learners with a rich language environment that includes extended listening opportunities like narration, description, and explanations.
- Provide learners with meaningful concrete experiences, making extensive use of visuals, props, hands-on activities, and technology.
- Teach themed units lasting four to six weeks in order to present vocabulary in context.
- Include meaningful cultural content in every unit.
- Use songs and rhymes to reinforce meaning and practice language, using culturally authentic versions where possible.
- Assess learner progress with informal and formal assessments.
- Focus on listening and speaking skills in kindergarten and first grade, and add pre-reading and writing in second grade.
- Provide further enrichment to vocabulary and begin simple sentence structure in first grade.
- Practicing describing, comparing, and contrasting in second grade.
