Preaching to Acquire

 Y'ALL! I LOVE talking about assessment. Can you tell? Before I dig into the nitty gritty, I have to tell you about a FREE PD opportunity including a session by yours truly about assessment! Check out this link get your free summit playbook and to register for this year's World Language Teacher Summit . There are over 30 speakers on a variety of topics that you will love. Keep reading for simple assessment tips! Here's what you can look forward to in my presentation Creating Assessments for Student Success  when it goes LIVE on October 21st: Kaitlin shares her ideas for putting together assessments which are simple, straightforward, and give you an insight into your students’ language performance levels, while at the same time allowing your students to feel successful. She goes over some key sections of the ACTFL performance descriptors and provides examples of assessment tasks together with video demonstrations.  Register for the FREE summit now so you won't miss a pre...

>>This activity is not input focused.<< The purpose of this activity is to help kids process the language they've been acquiring in class and create their own sentences and thoughts without having to come up with the words themselves. It helps build confidence before the first writing assessment.  I am always looking for new ways to scaffold student writing. This word card sentence activity was inspired by my talented and smart friend, Nissa Quill. Check out some pictures of the students working at the end of this post! I also recorded this podcast episode to really explain the purpose of this activity and share more about how we discussed it in class. Main Idea:  Students are given cards with familiar words in the target language and work in groups to create as many sentences as possible with those words. They are given some blank cards to write their own words on as well.  We did this activity after spending about 4-5 days on calendar talk in class.  H...