MRPS World Languages

 
 
 
 

World Languages Proficiency Scales:

Listening Reading Writing Speaking (Under Development)


MSMS French (Grades 5-8)

  • Reporting Measure:

    French Language Acquisition

    Students can understand comprehensible input around student identities: age, birthday, likes/dislikes, hobbies, etc. Students can respond to questions at a novice low level: Given adequate time and familiar cues, they can exchange greetings, discuss their identity. Students will be able to identify countries where the target language is spoken.

  • Reporting Measure:

    French Language Acquisition

    Students can understand comprehensible input around student identities: age, birthday, likes/dislikes, hobbies, clothing/food etc. Students can respond to questions at a novice low level: Given adequate time and familiar cues, they can exchange greetings, discuss their identity, and name a number of familiar objects from their immediate environment.

  • -When listening, learners understand key words and cognates, as well as formulaic phrases that are highly contextualized and/or predictable

    -When reading, learners understand key words and cognates, as well as formulaic phrases that are highly contextualized

    -When writing, learners reproduce from memory a modest number of words and phrases and have a high degree of accuracy when writing on well-practiced, familiar topics

    -Speakers communicate through isolated words and memorized phrases

    -Learners investigate, explain, and reflect on the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studies and their own

  • -When listening, learners can understand information conveyed in simple, sentence-length speech on familiar or everyday topics.

    -When reading, learners can understand information conveyed in simple, predictable texts with ample contextual clues.

    -When writing, learners are able to recombine learned vocabulary and structures to create simple sentences on very familiar topics.

    -When speaking, learners are able to manage successfully a number of uncomplicated, straightforward communicative tasks on predictable topics.

    -Learners investigate, explain, and reflect on the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.

 

MSMS Spanish (Grades 5-8)

  • Reporting Measure:

    -Spanish Language Acquisition

    Students can understand comprehensible input around student identities: age, birthday, likes/dislikes, hobbies, etc. Students can respond to questions at a novice low level: Given adequate time and familiar cues, they can exchange greetings, discuss their identity. Students will be able to identify countries where the target language is spoken.

  • Reporting Measure:

    Spanish Language Acquisition

    Students can understand comprehensible input around student identities: age, birthday, likes/dislikes, hobbies, clothing/food etc. Students can respond to questions at a novice low level: Given adequate time and familiar cues, they can exchange greetings, discuss their identity, and name a number of familiar objects from their immediate environment.

  • Reporting Measures:

    -When listening, learners understand key words and cognates, as well as formulaic phrases that are highly contextualized and/or predictable

    -When reading, learners understand key words and cognates, as well as formulaic phrases that are highly contextualized

    -When writing, learners reproduce from memory a modest number of words and phrases and have a high degree of accuracy when writing on well-practiced, familiar topics

    -Speakers communicate through isolated words and memorized phrases

    -Learners investigate, explain, and reflect on the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own

  • -When listening, learners can understand information conveyed in simple, sentence-length speech on familiar or everyday topics.

    -When reading, learners can understand information conveyed in simple, predictable texts with ample contextual clues.

    -When writing, learners are able to recombine learned vocabulary and structures to create simple sentences on very familiar topics.

    -When speaking, learners are able to manage successfully a number of uncomplicated, straightforward communicative tasks on predictable topics.

    -Learners investigate, explain, and reflect on the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.

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