Spanish as a Second Language
Grade 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Level I, II, III
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Spanish as a Second Language — High School Level I
Beginning and Developing Stages
Text used during 1997-2004:
Bienvenidos

As students progress through Spanish I in high school, they will demonstrate beginning level proficiencies at mid term and developing level proficiencies at the end of the year as described by the benchmarks for these stages by completing activities related to the following themes while using certain linguistic concepts as listed below. They will demonstrate progress between the novice-midand novice-high ranges of the ACTFL proficiency guidelines. Below are the Themes, Linguistic Concepts, Context, Text Type, and Accuracy expectations of students for this grade level. (Scroll down or click on the highlighted topic in the previous sentence for details.)

Themes: 
Topics of conversation in which instruction is presented, elaborated upon, or cultivated will include but are not limited to
Presentation
of new instruction
Elaboration
on instruction from previous levels
Cultivation
of instruction from previous levels
School
subjects
time
calendar
everyday objects
numbers to 1 million

Activities
leisure
parties
sports

Health and Fitness
ailments
body parts
daily routines

Travel and Vacation
transportation
geography
weather
seasons
beach resorts
camping

People Around Us
descriptions
friendships
family
manners
courtesies
age 

Food
rices
meals
restaurants
cuisine

Culture
history
fine arts
festivals 

Shopping
clothing
fashion
opinion
colors 

Communities
nationalities
places
home

None. None.

Linguistic Concepts: 
Grammar structures and linguistic functions students will know by the end of this level include but are not limited to
Presentation
of new concepts
Elaboration
on concepts from previous levels
Cultivation
of concepts from previous levels
Definite and indefinite articles,
Adjectives,
Comparisons,
Possession,
Present tense and preterite of regular and irregular verbs,
Ser versus estar,
Stem changing verbs,
Contractions of de and a,
versus usted,
Using hay,
Infinitive constructions,
Using gustar,
Affirmative and negative expressions,
Present progressive tense,
Demonstrative adjectives,
Direct & indirect object pronouns,
Interrogatives,
Ordinal numbers,
Conocer versus saber.
None. None.

Context: 
Students will be able to use Spanish when
Speaking face-to-face with someone,
Listening to someone or to audio or video texts,
Viewing age-appropriate materials or reading brief written messages on familiar topics, and
Writing notes, lists, postcards, simple poems, short letters, and brief guided compositions.

Text Type: 
Text type: Students will use Spanish to
Use and understand learned expressions, sentences and strings of sentences, questions, and polite commands,
Write simple paragraphs, and
Read and understand important ideas and some details in authentic texts.

Accuracy: 
Precision in the students' ability to communicate in Spanish as related to grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary will reflect
Increasing fluency and control of vocabulary,
No significant pattern of error when performing beginning stage functions,
Effective communication with some pattern of error when performing developing stage functions,
Understanding of oral and written discourse with few errors in comprehension.

Spanish as a Second Language
Grade 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Level I, II, III
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Web site is based on the Calcasieu Parish Schools Articulated Second Language Curricula,
and it conforms to the Louisiana Foreign Language Content Standards.
Web site created and curricula formated by Éric LeGros, 1997 - 2001.
Date last modified: 29 May 2001.