Instructional Session 23
Objective: By the end of class, you will be able to…
Beginner: say phrases or sentences in French to give information about four regions of France Intermediate: say a series of connected sentences in French to give information about four regions of France, using transition words to say more Advanced: say a series of connected, well-organized sentences in French to give information about four regions of France, using transition words to say more
Preparation: The Guided Oral Input strategy you will be using in this session is a Picture Inquiry chart. This strategy was first introduced in Session 7. See that session for a more detailed explanation of the strategy. The Picture Inquiry chart is a series of images that show four to six examples of each of the subtopics that you created when planning your Process Grid for this topic study. You will not speak about the Shape and Concept Categories in this session; you will simply use the images in your slideshow (or other format) to describe aspects of the subtopics, in general terms. You will begin to teach about the Shape and Concept Categories in Session 26, when you use the Input Chart strategy to teach about the first subtopic on your Process Grid. The Picture Inquiry chart is a GLAD (Guided Language Acquisition Design) strategy that falls under a collection of strategies called “Focus and Motivation.” These strategies are designed to be used at the beginning of a topic study, to rally students around the topic and, especially in the case of the Picture Inquiry chart, draw out their prior knowledge and understandings (and perhaps their misunderstandings). Therefore, you will not use the images to teach specific content, but rather to pique students’ curiosity about the topic and draw them into the Information cycle in a student-centered way. You can choose to use a prepared series of images, such as the ones in the example lesson, which you can download from our Teachers Pay Teachers store (CI Liftoff), or you can simply make a collection of four to six images about each of your subtopics, or use a resource from any other source. The example series of lessons that I will use in this book is from our materials. The topic of the example lessons is regions of France, and the subtopics are four specific regions: (1) Le Grand Est , (2) Normandy, (3) Corsica, and (3) La Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
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