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Building Community through Language Learning Glastonbury Public Schools

Building Community through Language Learning Glastonbury Public Schools. www.foreignlanguage.org. Presenters Rebecca Comenale Spanish Teacher/ Glastonbury High School comenaler@glastonburyus.org Meghan Zingle Spanish Teacher/ Glastonbury High School zinglem@glastonburyus.org

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Building Community through Language Learning Glastonbury Public Schools

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  1. Building Community through Language LearningGlastonbury Public Schools www.foreignlanguage.org

  2. Presenters • Rebecca Comenale • Spanish Teacher/ Glastonbury High School • comenaler@glastonburyus.org • Meghan Zingle • Spanish Teacher/ Glastonbury High School • zinglem@glastonburyus.org Partner teacher • Patty Silvey • Spanish teacher/ Hopewell School • silveyp@glastonburyus.org • Rita Oleksak • Director Foreign Languages and ELL/Glastonbury Public Schools • oleksakr@glastonburyus.org

  3. Aims of the project • Support literacy through increased exposure to language-rich texts and activities. • Celebrate accompanying languages and cultures by cross-age, cross-ability projects. • Promote language learning across levels by developing relationships between students.

  4. Background • Understanding by Design • Essential questions • Spanish 6-How are we transformed by our study of languages and cultures? • Spanish 3rd grade-What do learn from our global community? • FLES program • History of book project

  5. How we got started • Joint objective between three teachers across two grade levels (3rd and 12th grades) • “Grand plans” • Successes and challenges

  6. Activity #1 • “¡Hola amigos!” • Information from "mi amigo"

  7. Activity #2 • Book recording • “Books on tape”

  8. Activity #3 • Games designed around 1st-3rd grade units of study

  9. Activity #4 • Seniors wrote books through collaboration with 3rd graders

  10. Activity #5 • Ideas and suggestions

  11. Our Funding • District Foreign Language Budget • (Glastonbury Public Schools) • PTSO Grant • (Parent Teacher Student Organization supporting Glastonbury High School.) • NADSFL • (National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Languages)

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