Interpretive Mode of Communication

WL.CM1.N Demonstrate understanding of the general meaning and some basic information on very familiar common daily topics. Recognize memorized words, phrases, and simple sentences in authentic texts that are spoken, written, or signed.

Goal: Students demonstrate understanding, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics, from authentic texts. They use technology, when appropriate, to access information.

FL4K learners: recognize simple vocabulary that is carefully scaffolded and repeated throughout a video and accompanying culture program that includes interactive online dialogues, practice questions, games designed specifically to foster oral proficiency in the world language classroom, and auto-graded assessments.

FL4K Performance Expectation: Elementary and Middle School students have the opportunity to listen to and view nine different educational videos that are accompanied by social media-like culture posts for 11 different countries that reinforce the language learning in the videos and include spectacular visuals, interactive features of polling and voting, as well as collaborative features to fascinate and engage the Gen Z student. High School students have a full 11-country culture program option that includes all of the above online features leveled for Novice Low-Intermediate Mid proficiency targets.

FL4K: Elementary and Middle School students will be able to identify words used in the video program that are bolded and repeated in the culture program, reinforcing proficiency while learning dynamic cultural information, while High School students will be able to learn basic language structures within the context of culture.

Interpersonal Mode of Communication

WL.CM2.N Participate in real-world, spoken, written, or signed conversations on very familiar topics. Use memorized words, phrases, and simple sentences, and questions in highly predictable common daily settings

Goal: Students interact and negotiate meaning in a variety of real-world settings and for multiple purposes, in spoken, signed, or written conversations. They use technology as appropriate, in order to collaborate, to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.

FL4K learners: communicate in innovative and interactive ways using digitized practice questions, dialogues, and polls that reinforce memorized words and phrases based on very familiar topics presented in the videos and an accompanying culture curriculum. Students use images in interactive dialogues, practice questions, and hands-on activities throughout the program to convey meaning.

FL4K performance expectation: Students learn to exchange information through the digital features of voting on the most and least interesting cultural site, polling with regard to preferences, participating in digitized simulated conversations, dialogues, role playing, and partner activities in person.

• FL4K: The practice questions that include audio, visual, and written prompts give students ample built-in practice responding to simple questions based on what they have listened to and read.

FL4K: Our hands-on curriculum guide provides interpersonal activities and games for students to practice sharing with others their basic needs on familiar topics using memorized words, questions, and phrases that are repeatedly recycled in the program.

FL4K: Students have the opportunity to vote on which cultural posts are most interesting to them using a unique online voting process that provides instant polling or voting results for the whole class to see.

FL4K: Hands-on activity guide gives ideas about how to practice reacting to directions and commands in classroom situations.

FL4K: Dialogues that accompany each unit help teachers to provide partner activities that mimic real world communication.

FL4K: provides a complete bank of music and songs that range from teacher-created to authentic resources.

Presentational Mode of Communication

WL.CM3.N Present information in culturally appropriate ways on very familiar common daily topics using memorized words, phrases, and simple sentences through spoken, written, or signed language. Use the most suitable media and technologies to present and publish.

Goal: Students present information, concepts, and ideas on a variety of topics and for multiple purposes, in culturally appropriate ways. They adapt to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers, using the most suitable media and technologies to present and publish.

FL4K learners: have the opportunity with each unit to assume a leadership role; one might be the photographer, the director of health and safety, the nature guide, etc. According to the cultural posts and the age of the students, the leader will get alerts to share with classmates to help when the class votes on what is most interesting or desirable about the culture or the leader will be asked to investigate some pertinent information with regard to voting and polling the class about interest level in this cultural information.

FL4K: Hands-on activity guide supports teachers in providing creative ideas for presentations relating to the videos and/or culture curriculum. An example might be for each cultural unit : Students create their own unique “Pride of _____(country of study) presentation, giving students the opportunity to present which products, practices, and perspectives they think people from that country would be most proud of.

FL4K: Students learn to react to the culture and each other throughout the curriculum through the polls and voting opportunities that are provided.

FL4K: Students learn about products, practices, and perspectives and must present information to their classmates in such a way to help the class make informed decisions about what they might want to see or do while exploring the target culture.

Settings for Communication

WL.CM4.N Recognize opportunities to use age-appropriate, culturally authentic, real-world, and academic language in highly predictable common daily settings within target-language communities in the United States and around the world.

Goal: -Students use language in: highly predictable common daily settings -Students recognize language use opportunities outside the classroom and set goals while reflecting on progress, and use language for enjoyment, enrichment, and advancement.

FL4K: Students participate in role plays and dialogues at the Novice level in the target language to practice using the target language in highly predictable daily settings with the goal of transferring the communication into real life with built-in reflection on progress as part of the program.

Receptive Structures in Service of Communication

WL.CM5.N Demonstrate understanding of words, phrases, and simple sentences on very familiar common daily topics. Use orthography, phonology, ASL parameters, and very basic sentence-level elements (morphology and/or syntax).

Goal: Students use the following structures to communicate: šš -basic words Students use the following language text types to communicate: š -memorized phrases of language

FL4K: Beginning Spanish students can start our curriculum at the novice level and cover daily topics in an immersion manner with basic words and memorized phrases of language embedded for reinforcement throughout the culture program.

FL4K: Students are expected to understand basic words and memorized phrases that they learn through the video and culture programs and then hear repeated in a built-in language lab format that affords them the opportunity to practice understanding and recognizing language patterns.

Productive Structures in Service of Communication

WL.CM6.N Communicate about very familiar common daily topics using words and phrases (signs and fingerspelling in ASL), and simple sentences. Use orthography, phonology or ASL parameters, and very basic sentence-level elements (morphology and/or syntax).

Goal: Students use the following structures to communicate: š -sounds, parameters, and writing systems. š Students use the following language text types to communicate: š -learned words, signs and fingerspelling, and phrases

FL4K: Students learn to communicate about very familiar common daily topics with basic vocabulary and simple sentences that are reinforced in a built-in language lab format and are transferable to real world situations that are taught through the themes and culture of each level.

Language Comparisons in Service of Communications

WL.CM7.I Identify similarities and differences in the basic sentence-level elements (morphology and syntax) of the languages known.

Goal: To interact with communicative competence, students use the target language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the nature of language through comparisons of similarities and differences in the target language and the language(s) they know

FL4K: Students learn how to compare the products, practices, and perspectives of Hispanic cultures using a Novice level of communication in the target language with social media-like posts that cover such topics of cultural interest as food, nature, geography, climate, people, events, sites, music, etc. and include instant polling and cultural comparison questions that reinforce the language structures that they are learning in Spanish with the . option to explore and compare products, practices, and perspectives in more depth in English.

Interpretive Mode of Communication

WL.CM1.I Demonstrate understanding of the main idea and some details on some informal topics related to self and the immediate environment. Demonstrate understanding of sentences and strings of sentences in authentic texts that are spoken, written, or signed.

Goal: Students demonstrate understanding, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics, from authentic texts. They use technology, when appropriate, to access information.

FL4K learners: begin to understand and communicate at the word, phrase, and simple sentence level using vocabulary that is carefully scaffolded and repeated throughout a video program and accompanying culture program that includes interactive online dialogues, practice questions, games designed specifically to foster oral proficiency in the world language classroom, and auto-graded assessments

FL4K Performance Expectation: Students listen to and view nine different educational videos as well as read related social media-like culture posts about 11 countries that reinforce the language learning in the videos and include spectacular visuals, interactive features of polling and voting, as well as collaborative features to fascinate and engage the Gen Z student. High School students have a full 11-country culture program option that includes all of the above online features leveled for Novice Low-Intermediate Mid proficiency targets.

FL4K: Students will be able to identify words and simple sentences used in the video program that are bolded and repeated in the culture program, reinforcing proficiency while learning dynamic cultural information related to products, practices, and perspectives.

FL4K: A complete guide to hands-on activities that teach students to respond to oral directions, commands, requests, and gestures associated with the target culture accompanies the program.

FL4K: includes climate and weather within the context of culture, highlighting other global issues that prompt students to investigate using authentic resources and present discoveries to others.

FL4K: Each culture post is a short segment that mimics social media helping the Gen Z student relate better to the information.

Interpersonal Mode of Communication

WL.CM2.I Participate in real-world, spoken, written, or signed conversations related to self and the immediate environment. Create sentences and strings of sentences to ask and answer a variety of questions in transactional and some informal settings.

Goal: Students interact and negotiate meaning in a variety of real-world settings and for multiple purposes, in spoken, signed, or written conversations. They use technology as appropriate, in order to collaborate, to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.

FL4K learners: understand and communicate at the word and phrase level independently in innovative and interactive ways when responding to digital practice questions, dialogues with unique recording and feedback features, and polls that reinforce memorized words and phrases based on very familiar topics presented in both the videos and accompanying culture program.

FL4K Performance Expectation: FL4K provides a multitude of resources for guiding interpersonal communication in the classroom from dice games, partner activities, interactive dialogues and practice activities at every level, and digital commenting features embedded in the culture program to mimic social media.

FL4K: includes audio, visual, and written prompts that give students ample built-in practice to learn to ask simple questions based on what they have listened to and read

FL4K: Students learn to express their likes and dislikes and personal needs through the video program and/or culture program that includes activities and games that have been carefully scaffolded for proficiency levels and include words, phrases, and short memorized formulaic sentences reinforced through role playing, dialogues, and other interpersonal activities provided in the hands-on activity guide.

FL4K: Students have the opportunity to vote on which cultural posts are most interesting to them using a unique online voting process that provides instant polling or voting results for the whole class to see followed by online commenting within the program to express their reactions to other’s basic preferences.

FL4K: Students participate in authentic digital dialogues with playback features that allow them to assess their own accents and record as many times as they want to satisfy their own expectations. The hands-on activities guide that accompanies each unit helps teachers to provide partner activities that mimic real world communication.

Presentational Mode of Communication

WL.CM3.I Make simple presentations in culturally appropriate ways on transactional and informal topics related to self and the immediate environment. Use sentences and strings of sentences through spoken, written, or signed language using the most suitable media and technologies to present and publish.

Goal: Students present information, concepts, and ideas on a variety of topics and for multiple purposes, in culturally appropriate ways. They adapt to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers, using the most suitable media and technologies to present and publish.

FL4K learners: understand and communicate at the word and phrase level and can use memorized words and phrases independently when stating needs and preferences. They can describe people, places, and things with a combination of memorized words and phrases and a few simple sentences formed by combining and recombining learned language.

FL4K Performance Expectations: Upper elementary, Middle School, and High School students have the opportunity with each unit to assume a leadership role; one might be the photographer, the director of health and safety, the nature guide, etc. According to the cultural posts and the age of the students, the leader will get alerts to share with classmates to help when the class votes on what is most interesting or desirable about the culture or depending on age-appropriateness, the leader may be asked to investigate some pertinent information with regard to voting and polling the class about the popularity of exploring a site.

FL4K: Hands-on activity guide provides details about how to organize activities that correspond to the curriculum and allows for presentational opportunities at all different skill levels throughout the program including stating basic needs using words, phrases, and short memorized, formulaic sentences. Activities include songs, imitation and dramatization of scenarios from videos, dialogues, and culminating activities such as presenting the pride of a culture in poster form based on what they have learned about products, practices, and perspectives about each country.

FL4K: Students have the opportunity to answer practice questions in writing.

FL4K: Students learn about products, practices, and perspectives and must present information to their classmates in such a way to help the class make informed decisions through an online voting feature about what they want to see or do while exploring the target culture.

Settings for Communication

WL.CM4.N Recognize opportunities to use age-appropriate, culturally authentic, real-world, and academic language in highly predictable common daily settings within target-language communities in the United States and around the world.

Goal: -Students use language in: highly predictable common daily settings -Students recognize language use opportunities outside the classroom and set goals while reflecting on progress, and use language for enjoyment, enrichment, and advancement.

FL4K: Students participate in role plays and dialogues at the Intermediate level in the target language to practice using the target language in highly predictable daily settings with the goal of transferring the communication into real life with built-in reflection on progress as part of the program.

Receptive Structures in Service of Communication

WL.CM5.I Demonstrate understanding of transactional and informal topics related to self and the immediate environment. Use basic sentence-level elements (morphology and syntax).

Goal: Students use the following structures to communicate: šš -basic word and sentence formation Students use the following language text types to communicate: š -sentences and strings of sentences

FL4K: Students demonstrate understanding of basic connector words and sentences throughout the program with the goal of beginning to communicate with strings of sentences.

Productive Structures of Service in Communication

WL.CM6.I Communicate about transactional topics, and some informal ones, related to self and the immediate environment in sentences and strings of sentences. Use basic sentence-level elements (morphology and syntax).

Goal: Students use the following structures to communicate: šš -basic word and sentence formation Students use the following language text types to communicate: š -sentences and strings of sentences

FL4K: Students talk about themselves and communicate about very familiar common daily topics with basic vocabulary and simple sentences that are reinforced in a built-in language lab format and are transferable to real world situations.

Language Comparisons in Service of Communications

WL.CM7.I Identify similarities and differences in the basic sentence-level elements (morphology and syntax) of the languages known.

Goal: To interact with communicative competence, students use the target language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the nature of language through comparisons of similarities and differences in the target language and the language(s) they know

FL4K: Students learn how to compare the products, practices, and perspectives of Hispanic cultures using an Intermediate level of communication in the target language with social media-like posts that cover such topics of cultural interest as food, nature, geography, climate, people, events, sites, etc. and include instant polling and cultural comparison questions. The posts are available in English, Spanish, or a simple level of Spanish that reinforces the basic structures that are necessary for comparing and discussing cultural differences at an intermediate level.

Culturally Appropriate Interaction

WL.CL1.N Use age-appropriate gestures and expressions in very familiar, common daily settings.

WL.CL1.I Interact with understanding in a variety of familiar age-appropriate transactional situations and common daily and informal settings.

Goal: Students interact with cultural competence and understanding.

FL4K: A culture program that focuses on 11 countries and introduces students to products, practices, and perspectives of each culture with options for learning the material as a Novice, Intermediate, or Heritage student. The program includes useful expressions in daily settings, hands-on activities to get your students up, moving, and interacting, cultural comparison discussion questions and reflections, prompts to investigate and explore global issues, voice recording features for dialogues, authentic songs and dances, and the following topics: weather expressions, nature, animals, foods, geography and climate, authentic lodging, local communities, the people and places of geographical and historical interest, as well as unique points of interest related to local culture. FL4K does this with the ACTFL World Readiness Standards as a guide for including the 5C’s and levels the language for various proficiency targets from Novice through Intermediate including discussion questions for older students of Intermediate Mid and High levels.

Cultural Products, Practices, and Perspectives

WL.CL2.N Experience, recognize, and explore the relationships among typical age-appropriate target cultures’ products, practices, and perspectives in culturally appropriate ways in very familiar common daily settings.

WL.CL2.I Experience, recognize, and explore the relationships among typical age-appropriate target cultures’ products, practices, and perspectives in culturally appropriate ways in transactional situations and some informal settings.

Goal: To interact with cultural competence, students demonstrate understanding and use the target language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationships among the products cultures produce, the practices cultures manifest, and the perspectives that underlie them.

FL4K: A culture program that focuses on 11 countries and introduces students to products, practices, and perspectives of each culture with options for learning the material as a Novice, Intermediate, or Heritage student. The program includes useful expressions in daily settings, hands-on activities to get your students up, moving, and interacting, cultural comparison discussion questions and reflections, prompts to investigate and explore global issues, voice recording features for dialogues, authentic songs and dances, and the following topics: weather expressions, nature, animals, foods, geography and climate, authentic lodging, local communities, the people and places of geographical and historical interest, as well as unique points of interest related to local culture. FL4K does this with the ACTFL World Readiness Standards as a guide for including the 5C’s and levels the language for various proficiency targets from Novice through Intermediate including discussion questions for older students of Intermediate Mid and High levels.

Cultural Comparisons

WL.CL3.N Identify some similarities and differences among very familiar, common daily products, practices, and perspectives in the mainstream cultures of the United States, the students’ own cultures, and the target cultures.

WL.CL3.I Exchange information about similarities and differences among common daily products, practices, and perspectives in the immediate environment in the mainstream cultures of the United States, the students’ own cultures, and the target cultures.

Goal: To interact with cultural competence, students use the target language to investigate, explain, and refect on the nature of culture through comparisons of similarities and differences in the target cultures and the culture(s) they know.

FL4K: offers a culture program that focuses on 11 countries and introduces students to products, practices, and perspectives of each culture with options for learning the material as a Novice, Intermediate, or Heritage student. The program includes useful expressions in daily settings, hands-on activities to get your students up, moving, and interacting, cultural comparison discussion questions and reflections, prompts to investigate and explore global issues, voice recording features for dialogues, authentic songs and dances, and the following topics: weather expressions, nature, animals, foods, geography and climate, authentic lodging, local communities, the people and places of geographical and historical interest, as well as unique points of interest related to local culture. FL4K does this with the ACTFL World Readiness Standards as a guide for including the 5C’s and levels the language for various proficiency targets from Novice through Intermediate including discussion questions for older students of Intermediate Mid and High levels.

Intercultural Influences

WL.CL4.N Identify cultural borrowings.

WL.C.4.I State reasons for cultural borrowings.

Goal: To interact with intercultural competence, students demonstrate understanding and use the target language to investigate how cultures influence each other over time.

FL4K: offers a culture program that focuses on 11 countries and introduces students to products, practices, and perspectives of each culture with options for learning the material as a Novice, Intermediate, or Heritage student. The program includes useful expressions in daily settings, hands-on activities to get your students up, moving, and interacting, cultural comparison discussion questions and reflections, prompts to investigate and explore global issues, voice recording features for dialogues, authentic songs and dances, and the following topics: weather expressions, nature, animals, foods, geography and climate, authentic lodging, local communities, the people and places of geographical and historical interest, as well as unique points of interest related to local culture. FL4K does this with the ACTFL World Readiness Standards as a guide for including the 5C’s and levels the language for various proficiency targets from Novice through Intermediate including discussion questions for older students of Intermediate Mid and High levels.

Connection to Other Disciplines

WL.CN1.N Acquire, exchange, and present information primarily in the target language about very familiar common daily elements of life and age-appropriate academic content across disciplines.

WL.CN1.I Acquire, exchange, and present information in the target language on topics related to self and the immediate environment, and age-appropriate academic content across disciplines.

Goal: To function in real-world situations, academic, and career-related settings, students build, reinforce, and expand their knowledge of other disciplines using the target language to develop critical thinking and solve problems.

FL4K: considers STEAM in curriculum design, adding in elements of science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics as they relate to cultural developments in the eleven country program.

Diverse Perspectives and Distinctive VIewpoints

WL.CN2.N Recognize diverse perspectives and distinctive viewpoints on very familiar common daily topics, primarily in the target language, from age-appropriate authentic materials from the target cultures.

WL.CN2.I Identify diverse perspectives and distinctive viewpoints on topics related to self and the immediate environment in the target language from age-appropriate authentic materials from the target cultures.

Goal: To function in real-world situations in academic and career-related settings, students access and evaluate information and diverse perspectives that are readily or only available through the language and its cultures.

FL4K: prompts students to consider and reflect on the perspectives of each country’s cultural practices and products compared to their own cultural perspectives through individual prompts, discussion questions, topics, hands-on activities, and authentic resources.