Teacher's Toolkit
Today I checked out the ELA Standards and Technology Matrix for grades 11-12. The standard that I chose to look at was LAFS.1112.L.3.4. This standard is the ability to deduce the meaning of an unfamiliar term through context clues and familiar words that may help. I feel prepared to teach this standard because having learned English as a foreign language, I have many years of personal experience in using context to fill in the blanks of words I don't know. My focus is to teach foreign languages in high school, so I went to the CPalms Educator Toolkit and selected World Languages for grades 9-12. The standard I chose to look into WL.K12.NM.3.1, where students are able to introduce themselves in a simple way that would sound natural to native speakers. This is a good way to create an immediate connection for new speakers, whose language barrier could otherwise make it much more difficult to connect to others in the early stages. A simple point of communication to start a more compl
