HS Spanish Guide

Canyons School District ​​

​

​

​

Instructional Supports Department

Core Instructional Strategies for DLI & World Language

Practice

Teacher Moves

Student Moves

- ​ Post, explain and reference learning intentions and success criteria throughout the lesson. - ​ Use backward design to plan instruction. - ​ Plan opportunities for interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational communication. - ​ Build background knowledge. - ​ Utilize actions, visuals, realia and examples appropriate for the student’s level to produce language. - ​ Introduce new vocabulary through explicit vocabulary routine. - ​ Use the modeling cycle providing examples of expectations and language production. - ​ Frequently check for understanding through student opportunities to respond (OTR), choral response, hand signals, tpr. - ​ Communicate expectations for routines (ie. partner share, SCD, think-pair-share, paraphrase to a partner, choral response) - ​ Implement the 3 modes of communication to engage students. - ​ Provide support & immediate feedback using correct language and concrete examples. - ​ Provide scaffolds, concept wall, word wall, graphics organizers.

- ​ Understand and can explain the learning objective and success criteria for the lesson.

Learning Intentions & Success Criteria

- ​ Interpret meaning by using actions, visuals, realia and context. - ​ Connect new language to prior knowledge.

Comprehensible Input

- ​ Practice new language with teacher guidance. - ​ Gradually apply new language independently.

Explicit Instruction/ I do-We do-You do

- ​ Demonstrate understanding through verbal and nonverbal responses. - ​ Ask questions and seek clarification. - ​ Take risks while using the target language. - ​ Use sentence frames to produce language. - ​ Speak, read, write and listen in the partner language.

Check for Understanding

Engagement

- ​ Reference word walls, graphic organizers, concept walls. - ​ Use scaffolding and strategies for reproduction, comprehension and application to learn new materials.

Language References/ Supports

Updated 6.25.26