Standard 1: Interpretive Communication

Learners understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, received, or viewed on a variety of topics, using a range of diverse texts, including authentic resources.

Novice Mid: I can identify some basic facts from memorized or familiar words and phrases when they are supported by gestures or visuals in informational and literary texts and conversations that are spoken, written or signed.

Novice High: I can identify the topic and some isolated facts in short informational and literary texts as well as understand familiar questions and statements from simple sentences in conversations that are spoken, written or signed.

FL4K learners: recognize simple vocabulary that is carefully scaffolded and repeated throughout a video and accompanying culture program that includes interactive online dialogues, practice questions, games designed specifically to foster oral proficiency in the world language classroom, and auto-graded assessments.

FL4K Performance Expectation: Elementary and Middle School students have the opportunity to listen to and view nine different educational videos that are accompanied by social media-like culture posts for 11 different countries that reinforce the language learning in the videos and include spectacular visuals, interactive features of polling and voting, as well as collaborative features to fascinate and engage the Gen Z student. High School students have a full 11-country culture program option that includes all of the above online features leveled for Novice Low-Intermediate Mid proficiency targets.

• FL4K: Elementary and Middle School students will be able to identify words used in the video program that are bolded and repeated in the culture program, reinforcing proficiency while learning dynamic cultural information related to products, practices, and perspectives. High School students will do the same, but will have more sophisticated interpretive tasks.

• FL4K: A complete guide to hands-on activities that teach students to respond to oral directions, commands, requests, and gestures associated with the target culture accompanies the program.

• FL4K: Each culture post is a short segment that mimics social media helping the Gen Z student relate better to the information and be motivated to interpret it.

Standard 2: Interpersonal Communication

Learners interact and negotiate meaning in spontaneous, spoken, visual, or written communication to exchange information and express feelings, preferences, and opinions.

Novice Mid: I can request and provide information, meet basic needs, express preferences or feelings, and react to those of others on very familiar and everyday topics, using a mixture of simple practiced or memorized words, phrases, sentences, and questions in conversations.

Novice High: I can request and provide information, and meet basic needs; express, ask about, and react to preferences, feelings, or opinions on familiar and everyday topics, using a mixture of simple sentences and some original questions in conversations, most of the time.

FL4K learners: communicate in innovative and interactive ways using digitized practice questions, dialogues, and polls that reinforce memorized words and phrases based on very familiar topics presented in the videos and an accompanying culture curriculum. Students use images in interactive dialogues, practice questions, and hands-on activities throughout the program to convey meaning.

FL4K performance expectation: Students learn to exchange information through the digital features of voting on the most and least interesting cultural site, polling with regard to preferences, participating in digitized simulated conversations, dialogues, role playing, and partner activities in person.

• FL4K: The practice questions that include audio, visual, and written prompts give students ample built-in practice responding to simple questions based on what they have listened to and read.

FL4K: Our hands-on curriculum guide provides interpersonal activities and games for students to practice sharing with others their basic needs on familiar topics using memorized words, questions, and phrases that are repeatedly recycled in the program.

FL4K: Students have the opportunity to vote on which cultural posts are most interesting to them using a unique online voting process that provides instant polling or voting results for the whole class to see.

FL4K: Hands-on activity guide gives ideas about how to practice reacting to directions and commands in classroom situations.

FL4K: Dialogues that accompany each unit help teachers to provide partner activities that mimic real world communication.

FL4K: provides a complete bank of music and songs that range from teacher-created to authentic resources.

Standard 3: Presentational Communication

Learners present information and ideas on a variety of topics adapted to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers to describe, inform, narrate, explain, or persuade.

Novice Mid: I can present information about my life and activities, and state preferences and opinions on very familiar and everyday topics, using a mixture of simple practiced or memorized words, phrases, and sentences, through spoken, written or signed language.

Novice High: I can present information about my life and activities, and state preferences and opinions on familiar and everyday topics, using simple sentences, most of the time, through spoken, written or signed language.

FL4K learners: have the opportunity with each unit to assume a leadership role; one might be the photographer, the director of health and safety, the nature guide, etc. According to the cultural posts and the age of the students, the leader will get alerts to share with classmates to help when the class votes on what is most interesting or desirable about the culture or the leader will be asked to investigate some pertinent information with regard to voting and polling the class about interest level in this cultural information.

• FL4K: Hands-on activity guide supports teachers in providing creative ideas for presentations relating to the videos and/or culture curriculum. An example might be for each cultural unit : Students create their own unique “Pride of _____(country of study) presentation, giving students the opportunity to present which products, practices, and perspectives they think people from that country would be most proud of.

• FL4K: Students learn to react to the culture and each other throughout the curriculum through the polls and voting opportunities that are provided.

• FL4K: Students learn about products, practices, and perspectives and must present information to their classmates in such a way to help the class make informed decisions about what they might want to see or do while exploring the target culture.

Standard 4: Relating Cultural Practices and Products to Perspectives

Learners use the target language to identify, describe, and explain the practices and products of the cultures studied as well as the cultural perspectives they suggest.

Novice Mid: I can identify cultural products and practices in my own and other cultures to help me understand perspectives using words and phrases, with graphic or visual support.

Novice High: I can identify cultural products and practices in my own and other cultures to help me understand perspectives using simple sentences with graphic or visual support.

FL4K: A culture program that focuses on 11 countries and introduces students to products, practices, and perspectives of each culture with options for learning the material as a Novice, Intermediate, or Heritage student. The program includes useful expressions in daily settings, hands-on activities to get your students up, moving, and interacting, cultural comparisons, discussion questions and reflections, prompts to investigate and explore global issues, voice recording features for dialogues, authentic songs and dances, and the following topics: weather expressions, nature, animals, foods, geography and climate, authentic lodging, local communities, the people and places of geographical and historical interest, as well as unique points of interest related to local culture. FL4K does this with the ACTFL World Readiness Standards as a guide for including the 5C’s and levels the language for various proficiency targets from Novice through Intermediate including discussion questions for older students of Intermediate Mid and High proficiency levels.

Standard 5: Cultural Comparisons

Learners use the target language to compare the products and practices of the cultures studied and their own

Novice Mid: I can identify comparisons of practices and products of the target cultures with my own culture, using words and phrases, with graphic or visual support.

Novice High: I can identify comparisons of practices and products of the target cultures with my own culture, using phrases and simple sentences with graphic or visual support.

FL4K: offers a culture program that focuses on 11 countries and introduces students to products, practices, and perspectives of each culture with built-in cultural comparison questions with regard to the following topics: weather, nature, animals, foods, geography and climate, lodging, local communities, the people and places of geographical and historical interest, as well as unique points of interest related to local culture.

Standard 1: Interpretive Communication

Learners understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, received, or viewed on a variety of topics, using a range of diverse texts, including authentic resources.

Intermediate Low: I can identify the topic, main idea, and related information from simple sentences in short informational and literary texts and conversations that are spoken, written or signed.

Intermediate Mid: I can understand the main idea and key information in short straightforward informational and literary texts and conversations that are spoken, written or signed.

FL4K learners: begin to understand and communicate at the word, phrase, and simple sentence level using vocabulary that is carefully scaffolded and repeated throughout a video program and accompanying culture program that includes interactive online dialogues, practice questions, readings, authentic resources, songs, games, and hands-on activities designed specifically to foster oral proficiency in the world language classroom, and auto-graded assessments

FL4K Performance Expectation: Students listen to and view nine different educational videos as well as read related social media-like culture posts about 11 countries that reinforce the language learning in the videos and include spectacular visuals, interactive features of polling and voting, as well as collaborative features to fascinate and engage the Gen Z student. High School students have a full 11-country culture program option that includes all of the above online features leveled for Novice Low-Intermediate Mid proficiency targets.

• FL4K: Students will be able to identify words and simple sentences used in the video program that are bolded and repeated in the culture program, reinforcing proficiency while learning dynamic cultural information related to products, practices, and perspectives.

• FL4K: A complete guide to hands-on activities that teach students to respond to oral directions, commands, requests, and gestures associated with the target culture accompanies the program.

• FL4K: includes climate and weather within the context of culture, highlighting other global issues that prompt students to investigate using authentic resources and present discoveries to others.

Standard 2: Interpersonal Communication

Learners interact and negotiate meaning in spontaneous, spoken, visual, or written communication to exchange information and express feelings, preferences, and opinions.

Intermediate Low: I can request and provide information; express, ask about, and react with some details to preferences, feelings, or opinions on familiar topics, by creating simple sentences and asking appropriate follow-up questions in conversations.

Intermediate Mid: I can exchange information, preferences, feelings, or opinions on a variety of familiar and some researched topics, by creating sentences and series of sentences and asking follow-up questions in conversations.

FL4K learners: understand and communicate at the word and phrase level independently in innovative and interactive ways when responding to digital practice questions, dialogues with unique recording and feedback features, and polls that reinforce memorized words and phrases based on very familiar topics presented in both the videos and accompanying culture program.

FL4K Performance Expectation: FL4K provides a multitude of resources for guiding interpersonal communication in the classroom from dice games, partner activities, interactive dialogues and practice activities at every level, and digital commenting features embedded in the culture program to mimic social media.

• FL4K: includes audio, visual, and written prompts that give students ample built-in practice to learn to ask simple questions based on what they have listened to and read

• FL4K: Students learn to express their likes and dislikes and personal needs through the video program and/or culture program that includes activities and games that have been carefully scaffolded for proficiency levels and include words, phrases, and short memorized formulaic sentences reinforced through role playing, dialogues, and other interpersonal activities provided in the hands-on activity guide.

• FL4K: Students have the opportunity to vote on which cultural posts are most interesting to them using a unique online voting process that provides instant polling or voting results for the whole class to see followed by online commenting within the program to express their reactions to other’s basic preferences.

• FL4K: Students participate in authentic digital dialogues with playback features that allow them to assess their own accents and record as many times as they want to satisfy their own expectations. The hands-on activities guide that accompanies each unit helps teachers to provide partner activities that mimic real world communication.

Standard 3: Presentational Communication

Learners present information and ideas on a variety of topics adapted to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers to describe, inform, narrate, explain, or persuade.

Intermediate Low: I can present information about my life and activities, state and make attempts to support preferences and opinions on familiar and everyday topics, by creating and using simple sentences, through spoken, written or signed language.

Intermediate Mid: I can narrate personal experiences, present information, and state and support viewpoint(s) on a variety of familiar, concrete, and researched topics, using sentences and series of connected sentences, through spoken, written or signed language.

FL4K learners: understand and communicate at the word and phrase level and can use memorized words and phrases independently when stating needs and preferences. They can describe people, places, and things with a combination of memorized words and phrases and a few simple sentences formed by combining and recombining learned language.

FL4K Performance Expectations: Upper elementary, Middle School, and High School students have the opportunity with each unit to assume a leadership role; one might be the photographer, the director of health and safety, the nature guide, etc. According to the cultural posts and the age of the students, the leader will get alerts to share with classmates to help when the class votes on what is most interesting or desirable about the culture or depending on age-appropriateness, the leader may be asked to investigate some pertinent information with regard to voting and polling the class about the popularity of exploring a site.

• FL4K: Hands-on activity guide provides details about how to organize activities that correspond to the curriculum and allows for presentational opportunities at all different skill levels throughout the program including stating basic needs using words, phrases, and short memorized, formulaic sentences. Activities include songs, imitation and dramatization of scenarios from videos, dialogues, and culminating activities such as presenting the pride of a culture in poster form based on what they have learned about products, practices, and perspectives about each country.

• FL4K: Students have the opportunity to answer practice questions in writing.

• FL4K: Students learn about products, practices, and perspectives and must present information to their classmates in such a way to help the class make informed decisions through an online voting feature about what they want to see or do while exploring the target culture.

Standard 4: Relating Cultural Practices and Products to Perspectives

Learners use the target language to identify, describe, and explain the practices and products of the cultures studied as well as the cultural perspectives they suggest.

Intermediate Low: I can describe cultural products and practices in my own and other cultures to help me understand perspectives using sentences.

Intermediate Mid: I can describe cultural products and practices in my own and other cultures to help me understand perspectives using strings of sentences.

FL4K: A culture program that focuses on 11 countries and introduces students to products, practices, and perspectives of each culture with options for learning the material as a Novice, Intermediate, or Heritage student. The program includes useful expressions in daily settings, hands-on activities to get your students up, moving, and interacting, cultural comparison discussion questions and reflections, prompts to investigate and explore global issues, voice recording features for dialogues, authentic songs and dances, and the following topics: weather expressions, nature, animals, foods, geography and climate, authentic lodging, local communities, the people and places of geographical and historical interest, as well as unique points of interest related to local culture. FL4K does this with the ACTFL World Readiness Standards as a guide for including the 5C’s and levels the language for various proficiency targets from Novice through Intermediate including discussion questions for older students of Intermediate Mid and High levels.

Standard 5: Cultural Comparisons

Learners use the target language to compare the products and practices of the cultures studied and their own

Intermediate Low: I can describe comparisons of practices and products of the target cultures with my own culture, using sentences.

Intermediate Mid: I can describe comparisons of practices and products of the target cultures with my own culture, using strings of sentences.

FL4K: offers a culture program that focuses on 11 countries and introduces students to products, practices, and perspectives of each culture with options for learning the material as a Novice, Intermediate, or Heritage student. The program includes useful expressions in daily settings, hands-on activities to get your students up, moving, and interacting, cultural comparison discussion questions and reflections, prompts to investigate and explore global issues, voice recording features for dialogues, authentic songs and dances, and the following topics: weather expressions, nature, animals, foods, geography and climate, authentic lodging, local communities, the people and places of geographical and historical interest, as well as unique points of interest related to local culture. FL4K does this with the ACTFL World Readiness Standards as a guide for including the 5C’s and levels the language for various proficiency targets from Novice through Intermediate including discussion questions for older students of Intermediate Mid and High levels.