Read2 Succeed 20062007 Grant Award

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Read2 Succeed2006-2007 Grant Award

• Connections in Literature
• Nursery Rhymes, Poems, Songs and
• Fairy Tales in French

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Oaklawn Language AcademyCharlotte, North Carolina

• Cathy DuPre, Media Coordinator
• Gillian Schultz, Music Teacher
• Meredith Traill, Kindergarten French Teacher
• http//pages.cms.k12.nc.us/oaklawn/

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Resources of School

• 10,000 volumes total (K-5)
• 162 volumes in French
• 956 volumes in Spanish
• 61 French students
• Total K-5 student population of 373

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SIOP/TWIOP Lesson PlanBuilding Background

• Links to background
• Links to past learning
• Meaningful activities

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SIOP/TWIOP Strategies

• Modeling
• Guided Practice
• Independent Practice
• Higher Order Thinking Questions
• Opportunities to use learning strategies

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Grouping Options

• Whole Class
• Small Group
• Partners
• Practice/Application
• Reading
• Listening
• Speaking

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Comprehensible Input

• Clear explanation of tasks
• Use gestures (demonstration, adjust speech)
• Modeling, visuals, graphic organizers

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Review/Assessment (closure)

• Review of key concepts
• Review of key vocabulary
• Provide regular feedback
• Various types of assessment
• Product or performance

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Media/Music/French

• Media
• Background/link to prior learning
• Use of flannel board/visuals
• Matching of words with visuals
• Sequencing of nursery rhymes/poems

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Music

• Listening to French music CDs
• Repetition of keywords and phrases
• Sequencing of phrases (using sentence strips)
• Oral Sequencing
• Strategy One student has a ball in their
  hand and says first word. Passes ball to next
  student who will add the next word or phrase.
  Students keep passing the ball to add on keywords
  and to sequence.
• Promotes listening skills and involvement of
  whole class.

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French

• Oral proficiency with language
• Repetition of keywords and phrases
• Singing of songs, rehearsal of simple nursery
  rhymes.
• Drawing of pictures to go with keywords.
• Matching of words and pictures.
• Repetition of nursery rhymes and simple poems (1
  a week replay CD or audio tape during
  independent work time. Students will sing poem
  or nursery rhyme while working)

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Fairy Tales

• Introduce fairy tales and characteristics of
• the genre (Little Red Riding Hood)
• Read story
• Read a 2nd version (Petite Rouge Riding
  Hood)
• Introduce keywords (petite, rouge, etc.)

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1st Grade French classroom

• Readers Theatre Script of Little Red Riding
  Hood in French
• Rehearsal of keywords and phrases.
• Repetition and use of modeling and gestures
• PTA performance by first grade students.

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Assessment Pieces

• Checklist of groups (sequencing, matching of
  pictures with words, matching of French words
  with English words)
• Thinking maps (comparisons of English and French
  versions
• Rubric (see handout)

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Results of Collaboration

• Students involved in oral language development
  (practicing/learning through music, rhythm)
• Sharing among teachers of resources and
  strategies.
• Increased awareness of content and language goals
  with assessment pieces in place to evaluate those
  goals.

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Thank you.

• NCSLMA for funding of grant opportunities
• Thank you for our door prizes
• Capstone Press (Connie Ruyter)
• Linworth Publishing (Paula Jackson)
• Barnes Noble (Sharon Corners, Charlotte NC)
  (Judy Harper)