Montana

Communication

• 1 Students engage in conversation, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.

  • 1.1 express feelings, likes, and dislikes.

  • 1.2 respond in one-on-one interactions.

    • Greeting people and saying goodbye (S-1.M)
    • How are you doing? (S-1.N)
    • Introductions (S-1.O)
    • Listen and choose the appropriate response to basic questions (S-1.Q)
    • Listen to questions about student life and choose the appropriate response (S-4.N)
    • Respond to plans and invitations by giving reasons and excuses (S-7.U)

  • 1.3 create simple descriptions of people and things within a context.

    • Choose the correct form to describe an image (S-3.T)
    • What's happening at school? (S-4.R)
    • Write sentences about yourself, your family, or people you know (S-5.V)
    • Acabar de + infinitive (S-6.Q)
    • Write sentences that are true for you about sports, hobbies, and free time (S-7.V)

  • 1.4 express agreement and disagreement.

  • 1.5 express basic needs.

• 2 Students understand and interpret spoken and/or written language on a variety of topics.

  • 2.1 identify people and objects using aural, visual, and contextual cues.

    • Recognize nouns to identify people (S-2.A)
    • Recognize adjectives that describe appearance (S-2.C)
    • Recognize adjectives that describe personalities (S-2.E)
    • Listen and identify the person from the description (S-2.O)
    • Recognize school subjects (S-3.C)
    • Recognize school supplies (S-3.E)
    • Common adjectives (S-3.J)
    • Listen and recognize classes and school supplies (S-3.Q)
    • Recognize things in the classroom (S-4.A)
    • Recognize places in school (S-4.C)
    • Describe scenes from around school (S-4.Q)
    • Recognize immediate family members and pets (S-5.A)
    • Recognize extended family members (S-5.C)
    • Adjectives for feelings or states of being: recognize the correct word (S-5.E)
    • Listen and match the statement to the image (S-5.R)
    • Recognize meals and types of food (S-6.A)
    • Recognize food items (S-6.C)
    • Recognize drinks (S-6.E)
    • Recognize fruits and vegetables (S-6.G)
    • Recognize people, places, and things associated with sports (S-7.G)

  • 2.2 comprehend and respond appropriately to simple oral and written communications.

    • Listen and fill in a form with personal information: letters and numbers (S-1.P)
    • Listen and choose the appropriate response to basic questions (S-1.Q)
    • What is the conversation about? (S-1.R)
    • Listen to people describe themselves and others (S-2.P)
    • Listen to people talk about the school day (S-3.R)
    • Listen to questions about student life and choose the appropriate response (S-4.N)
    • Listen to people talk about their school and everything in it (S-4.O)
    • Listen to people talk about their families (S-5.S)
    • Listen to statements about actions and habits related to food (S-6.R)
    • Listen to people talk about their favorite foods and drinks (S-6.S)
    • Time expressions to talk about the present and the future (S-7.K)
    • Listen to conversations about making plans (S-7.R)
    • Listen to people talk about sports, hobbies, and free time (S-7.S)
    • Respond to plans and invitations by giving reasons and excuses (S-7.U)

  • 2.3 read and respond to developmentally appropriate material and identify the main idea.

    • Read about famous people from the Spanish‑speaking world (S-2.Q)
    • Read materials related to school and student life (S-3.S)
    • Read about schools and education in the Spanish‑speaking world (S-4.P)
    • Read about families from the Spanish‑speaking world (S-5.T)
    • Read about typical meals and foods from the Spanish‑speaking world (S-6.T)
    • Read street interviews about plans, habits, and free time (S-7.T)

• 3 Students convey information, concepts, and ideas to listeners and/or readers for a variety of purposes.

  • 3.1 give directions, commands, and instructions.

  • 3.2 give a description orally and/or in writing using simple phrases.

    • Write sentences about yourself, your family, or people you know (S-5.V)
    • Write sentences that are true for you about sports, hobbies, and free time (S-7.V)

  • 3.3 write a personal communication (e.g., note, letter, invitation).

  • 3.4 summarize main idea of selected authentic and/or contextualized material.

Cultures

• 4 Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the perspectives, practices, and products/contributions of cultures studied, and use this knowledge to interact effectively in cultural contexts.

  • 4.1 identify significant cultural perspectives and practices.

    • Greeting people and saying goodbye (S-1.M)
    • How are you doing? (S-1.N)
    • Introductions (S-1.O)
    • Informal and formal language: tú and usted (S-2.H)
    • Read about schools and education in the Spanish‑speaking world (S-4.P)

  • 4.2 recognize and interpret language and behaviors that reflect the culture.

    • Greeting people and saying goodbye (S-1.M)
    • How are you doing? (S-1.N)
    • Introductions (S-1.O)
    • Informal and formal language: tú and usted (S-2.H)

  • 4.3 identify objects, images, symbols, products, and other contributions of the culture.

    • Read about famous people from the Spanish‑speaking world (S-2.Q)
    • Read about typical meals and foods from the Spanish‑speaking world (S-6.T)

  • 4.4 identify the expressive forms of the culture (e.g., architecture, music, dance).

Connections

• 5 Students reinforce and increase his/her knowledge of other disciplines through world languages.

  • 5.1 identify and apply, within a familiar context, information and skills shared by the language classroom and other disciplines.

    • Weather and seasons (S-1.H)
    • Recognize Spanish‑speaking countries: North and Central America, Europe, and Africa (S-1.I)
    • Name Spanish‑speaking countries: North and Central America, Europe, and Africa (S-1.J)
    • Recognize Spanish‑speaking countries: South America (S-1.K)
    • Name Spanish‑speaking countries: South America (S-1.L)
    • Cognates and parts of speech (S-5.J)

  • 5.2 identify, through world language resources, information for use in other disciplines.

    • Read about famous people from the Spanish‑speaking world (S-2.Q)

• 6 Students acquire information and perspectives through authentic materials in world languages and within cultures.

  • 6.1 gather information from sources intended for native speakers of the language.

  • 6.2 use authentic sources to identify perspectives of world cultures.

Comparisons

• 7 Students recognize that different languages use different patterns and can apply this knowledge to his/her own language.

  • 7.1 identify sound patterns of the target language and compare them to the student's own language.

    • The Spanish alphabet (S-1.A)
    • Listen and fill in a form with personal information: letters and numbers (S-1.P)

  • 7.2 identify structural patterns of the target language.

    • Select the correct present‑tense form of ser (S-2.J)
    • Basics of gender and noun‑adjective agreement: singular forms (S-2.L)
    • Basics of number and forming the plural (S-2.M)
    • Common ‑ar verbs (S-3.K)
    • Definite and indefinite articles (S-3.L)
    • Gender and number agreement: articles, adjectives, and nouns (S-3.M)
    • Select the correct present‑tense form of regular ‑ar verbs (S-3.N)
    • Sentence structure in affirmative and negative sentences (S-3.P)
    • Prepositions of place (S-4.E)
    • Recognize question words: set 1 (S-4.F)
    • Common adverbs (S-4.H)
    • Select the correct present‑tense form of estar (S-4.I)
    • Select the correct present‑tense form of ir (S-4.K)
    • The prepositions a and de and the contractions al and del (S-4.M)
    • What's happening at school? (S-4.R)
    • Complete conversations about student life (S-4.S)
    • Common ‑er and ‑ir verbs (S-5.I)
    • Common prepositions: a, con, de, en, para (S-5.K)
    • Select the correct possessive adjective (S-5.L)
    • Present tense of tener: recognize the correct form (S-5.N)
    • Select the correct present‑tense form of regular ‑er/‑ir verbs (S-5.P)
    • Complete a letter to a pen pal (S-5.U)
    • Write sentences about yourself, your family, or people you know (S-5.V)
    • Recognize question words: set 2 (S-6.J)
    • Common stem-changing verbs: e to ie (S-6.L)
    • Time expressions to talk about frequency (S-6.M)
    • Select the correct present-tense form of ver (S-6.N)
    • Present tense of stem‑changing verbs: e to ie (S-6.P)
    • Acabar de + infinitive (S-6.Q)
    • Question words: review (S-7.I)
    • Common stem‑changing verbs: o to ue and jugar (S-7.J)
    • Time expressions to talk about the present and the future (S-7.K)
    • Recognize the correct form of gustar + infinitive (S-7.L)
    • Present tense of stem‑changing verbs: o to ue and jugar (S-7.N)
    • Ir a + infinitive to talk about the future (S-7.O)

  • 7.3 identify idiomatic expressions of the target language.

    • Weather and seasons (S-1.H)
    • Acabar de + infinitive (S-6.Q)
    • Select the use of tener or tener que (S-7.P)

  • 7.4 identify connections among languages.

    • Read about famous people from the Spanish‑speaking world (S-2.Q)
    • Read materials related to school and student life (S-3.S)
    • Read about schools and education in the Spanish‑speaking world (S-4.P)
    • Cognates and parts of speech (S-5.J)
    • Read about typical meals and foods from the Spanish‑speaking world (S-6.T)
    • Read street interviews about plans, habits, and free time (S-7.T)

• 8 Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the culture studied and his/her own.

  • 8.1 recognize similarities and differences, including behavior patterns, among target cultures and students' own cultures using evidence from authentic sources.

Communities

• 9 Students apply language skills and cultural knowledge in daily life.

  • 9.1 identify the target language in the student's daily life and share that knowledge with others.

  • 9.2 locate connections with the target culture through the use of technology, media, and authentic sources.

  • 9.3 locate resources in the community to learn about the target culture.