WL Best Practices

JM WL language teachers use _____ checks daily to check for understanding.

• vision

• comprehension

• heart rate

• hearing

Match what JM WL teachers do daily

• Making comparisons and connections

• cultural perspectives

• How are you today?

• Extension Activities

• whole class

  partner practice

  group work

• instruction

• Duolingo

  Music in target language

• check-ins

• countries of target language

• geography

Reorder the following

• checks

• allow us

• Comprehension

• guide instruction

• to formally and informally

Reorder the following

• concepts

• WL teachers

• re-teach and recycle

• JM

• to ensure student mastery.

Students demonstrate mastery through the modes of communications:

• speaking / listening

• reading

• writing

• speaking/ listening

  reading/ writing

Students use ___, total physical response, to act out vocabulary.

• NPR

• TPR

• CPR

• ETR

WL teachers use "cognates" words that look like English to teach vocabulary.

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

pink

red

blue

gray

french flag

violet

yellow

white

black

orange

WL teach students to make inferences and use context clues to gain _____.

• X

• X

• understanding

• X

Can you infer the meaning of the Mandarin character.

• moon

• star

• wood / tree

• water

Los profesores de JM son muy ... .

• bueno

• buenos

• buena

• buenos