Seneca Valley School District Elementary Spanish Program Curriculum

1. Seneca Valley School DistrictElementary Spanish Program Curriculum Heather J. Hendry Tabitha Waltman Christina Laporte July 18, 2017

2. Agenda • CBI: A definition and rationale • Demonstration: Número Misterioso • Curriculum Development Process • Curriculum overview • First/Second Thematic Units • Second/Third Thematic Units • Sample Unit: “All About Me” • Questions

3. Content-based Instruction • What? • An approach to language instruction that integrates the teaching of concepts from subject matter classes (e.g. math, science, etc) within the context of teaching the foreign language (Crandall & Tucker, 1990).

4. Content-based Instruction • Why? • Comprehensible input • Development of academic language which leads to higher levels of proficiency • Interpersonal communication • ZPDs and differentiation • Cognitively demanding and intrinsically interesting (Curtain and Dahlberg, 2015) • Motivating: connects with a variety of interests, strengths, academic backgrounds • Supports academic content knowledge of other subjects

5. Demonstration: NúmeroMisterioso Preguntas: ¿Es par? ¿Esimpar? ¿Esmás de ___? ¿Esmenos de ___? ¿Es entre ___ y ___? 10 diez 20 veinte 30 treinta 40 cuarenta 50 cincuenta 60 sesenta 70 setenta 80 ochenta 90 noventa 100 cien

7. Example Lesson Below is a link to a video of a sample activity. The activity focuses on numbers and math concepts. http://svtube.svsd.net/play?id=ut5karb6au

8. Curriculum Development Process

9. Curriculum Development Process • Unit Plan Inventory

10. Curriculum overview • First/Second grade units • AllAbout Me • ¿Oso pardo oso pardo que ves? (Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do yousee?) • El Mitón (TheMitton) • Buenas Noches Luna (Goodnight Moon) • Third/Fourth grade units • 1. La Oruga muy Hambrienta (TheVeryHungry Caterpillar) • 2. El Montón de Tamales (TooMany Tamales) • 3. El Árbol Generoso (The Giving Tree)

11. Sample Unit: All About Me