Language Arts
The Greene School middle school foreign language program exposes students to ample listening and reading opportunities with two required classes each week, and an optional elective offered once per week. Sixth grade Spanish curriculum integrates speaking, reading, writing, and listening, to help students achieve a level of proficiency. Students read more complex novels to promote conversation, pronunciation, reading comprehension, and writing. Sixth graders engage in communicative tasks relevant to their lives. Lessons and activities in grammar, vocabulary, geography, and culture are included in each unit. We highlight the geography and culture of Spanish speaking countries through reading novels set in Spanish speaking countries.
Students acquire language proficiency with visual and interactive support using grade level vocabulary and techniques including:
Total Physical Response
Collaborative Storytelling
MovieTalk
Embedded Reading
PictureTalk
Personalized Questions and Answers
Read and Discuss
Sixth grade students use the ¡Qué chévere! and Realidades curriculum textbooks, which integrate the development of language proficiency into cultural understanding, using project-based learning activities, multimedia resources, songs, games, and stories.
Students will learn “The Sweet 16 List”: to be (ser), to be (estar), to go, to have, to want, to like, there is\there are, to say, to give, to do, to see, can, to put on, to know, to leave, to come back
Students will also learn verbs: to listen, to understand, to practice, to ask questions, to answer, to remember, to think, to speak, to stand-up, to sit down, to look, to be able to, to start, to finish, to close, to open, to write, to read, to draw, to play, to walk, to run, to jump, to dance, to drink, to eat, to attack, to continue, to live, to swim, to notice, to escape, to destroy, exclaim, to talk, to take, to believe, to wait, to call, to take care of, to ride, to spend time, to change, to clean, to wash, to walk, to believe, to think.
Students will practice answering question words (what, when, how, how many, who, why, and how many).
Students will review greeting, farewell, alphabets, what do I want to be, interests and talents, food and health, clothes, places around me, likes and dislikes, school, family, weather, sports, animals, physical descriptions, personality traits, and chores.
Students will learn verb conjugation in relation to all pronouns (I, you, he, she, we, and they).
Students will learn the proper grammatical use of subject pronouns, present tense -ar verbs, infinitives, negative sentences, agreement or disagreement, adjectives, definite and indefinite articles, word order, prepositions, singular, and plural.
Students will have in-depth practice differentiating between the verbs estar and ser (to be).
Students will learn vocabulary through retelling stories and personalized questions and answers.
Students will learn through the following topics: food, describing oneself, home and furniture, animals and their habitat, daily routine, shopping, and Spanish speaking countries.
Students will read two novels related to the Spanish language.
Technology is used to incorporate independent listening, speaking, and reading. Technology is crucial in our Spanish class to differentiate instruction and to play games. Music, games, stories, and videos engage students on their learning journey. Students watch videos and listen to young Spanish speakers. Students in sixth grade prepare for and take the National Spanish Exam.
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