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 [[file:Unit Plan Que es una llama 2015.docx]]
 Using Pattern Stories in the World Language Classroom   Resources for the World Language Classroom  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;">Roadmap for Effective Programs for Young Learners (ACTFL 2013) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11px;">Here are the links to the 40+ page handout, the PDF version of the PowerPoint and the sample thematic unit ¿Qué es la llama?
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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px;"> The Path from Standards to Curriculum to Thematic Units: Developing Engaging Curriculum

Here is the PDF version of the PowerPoint and the 1-page Microsoft Word curriculum development graphic
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11px;">The PDF version of the PowerPoint presentation is here. You will find the electronic version of the partner activities in a Microsoft Word Document in the handout below for August 19 & 20 titled "Target and Partner Language Activities Wiki copy." =====

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 24px;">Using the Target Language and Creating Unrehearsed Comprehensible Output <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Hurst, Euless, Bedford School District, August 19-20, 2013

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 24px;">Aligning Proficiency and Thematic Planning <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">ATDLE Conference San Diego June 20-21, 2013  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">ATDLE: The Association of Two Way and Dual Language Education  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;">Thematic Planning <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">FLENJ Workshop <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px;"> ( <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey) March 15, 2013  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"> Target Language <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> (FLENJ Session 60 Minutes)March 16, 2013  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">See this previous handout for activities mentioned during the session. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;">Keeping in the Target Language<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">NECTFL Session Baltimore (90 Minutes) March 10 2013

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px;">Play and Playfulness in the Language Classroom <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">FLESFEST 25th Anniversary Keynote: March 2, 2013 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 24px; text-align: left;">Aligning Thematic Instruction and Language Proficiency CARLA Immersion Conference 2012 Pre Conference Workshop October 18, 2012 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;"> Young Learner Workshop PowerPoint and Handouts

Tbilisi, Georgia March 19-23, 2012





<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">TESOL Ukraine Keynote and Presentations March 15-16, 2012

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Young Learners Workshop US Embassy Kyiv, Ukraine <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;"> March 13-14, 2012



<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">NYC LOTE Session Thematic Teaching: Responding to the Diverse Needs of the Learner <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">January 30, 2012 New York City LOTE Conference

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">NYC LOTE Keynote Maximizing the Potential of Our Language Activities <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">January 30 2012 New York City LOTE Conference



<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Thematic Teaching: Responding to the Diverse Needs of the Learner <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> FLENJ January 12, 2012 New Jersey

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Memphis Keeping the Classroom in the Target Language Memphis City Schools August 3, 2011

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Here is the PDF version of the PowerPoint

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Here is the handout that participants received. See samples thematic units in next section.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jornada de Enseñanza de Inglés Para Niños, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">UPEL Maracay, Venezuela, February, 2011

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Here is the handout that participants received. Here is the PDF version of the PowerPoint Here are the pictures of animals and habitats.

Here is a detailed explanation for creating thematic units and some sample units.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">Venezuela VenTESOL/US Embassy Sessions February, 2011 <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Here is the handout that participants received. Here is a PDF version of the PowerPoint Here is additional information about some of the topics from the workshop.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">Target Language <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Here is the PDF version of the PowerPoint presenatation: Keeping the Classroom in the Target Language <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Here is a handout that provides many sample target language activities. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Children's Literature/Repetitive Stories <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">ACTFL Sessions November 19, 2010 See Children's Literature above.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">CLTA Workshop November 13, 2010, University of Maryland, College Park Here is the PDF version of the PowerPoint presenatation.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Long Island Workshop <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">November 8-9, 2010

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 * Deepening the Impact of Our Activities Workshop November 5, 2010** Helena Curtain & Jackie Dove

Here are the activities resulting from the group work. Participants made suggestions for ways to "deepen" and enhance the activities to make them intrinsically interesting, culturally connected, cognitively engaging and/or communicatively purposeful:

See Children's Literature Handout above!
 * Building Novice Level Language through Engaging Pattern Storie**s, November 5, 2010

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