(WL) World Languages Targeted Benchmark Level 1 Standards Area 1 - Communication Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
WL1.S1.1.04 Ask and answer simple questions (e.g., play “Go Fish,” “20 Questions,” interview a classmate).
Student Learning Targets:
Introduction to World Languages
(7th Grade)
Level I (high school course)
Level 2 (high school course)
Knowledge Targets
I can appropriately greet and say good-bye.
I can say my name and ask another’s name.
Skills (Performance) Targets
I can ask and answer questions about location/where someone is from.
I can ask and answer questions using numbers in the target language.
Knowledge Targets
I can recognize that there is more than one way to form a question.
I can identify interrogatives.
Reasoning Targets
I can form questions using a variety of methods.
I can create a logical sequence within a conversation.
Skills (Performance) Targets
I can answer simple questions affirmatively or negatively with a complete sentence using the present tense.
I can ask where a location is and understand the response. (e.g. restroom, city hall, parks, etc.)
I can order from a menu. (MODERN LANGUAGES)
I can ask for the time or the time of a scheduled event and understand the response.
I can describe the weather and the seasons. (MODERN LANGUAGES)
I can exchange phone numbers.
I can say where things are located.
I can ask and express a person’s age.
Product Targets
I can write a skit and produce the correct dialogue and pronunciation.
Skills (Performance) Targets
I can describe the weather and the seasons in the present and past tenses. (MODERN LANGUAGES)
I can say where things are and were located.
I can use interrogative words.
Proficiency Scale for Intro to World Language (7th grade)
Score
Description
Sample Activity
4.0
The student:
can initiate and carry on a conversation with current and past vocabulary without error.
3.5
In addition to Score 3.0 performance, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding the more complex content with partial success.
3.0
The student:
can appropriately ask and answer simple questions without error.
can ask and answer more complicated questions with minimal error.
The student can say his name and ask for someone else’s name using complete error-free sentences.
The student will answer how many items there are using Roman numerals.
While performing a skit, students can produce languages understood by a sympathetic speaker; use appropriate vocabulary, structure and expression.
2.5
The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and partial knowledge of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
2.0
The student:
can ask and answer simple questions with errors that don’t interfere with comprehension.
The student can say their name and ask for someone else’s name with minor mistakes that don’t interfere with comprehension.
The student can say he/she is and ask how others are with minor errors.
The student will read about a family and answer simple questions about the family with minor errors.
1.5
The student demonstrates partial knowledge of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) but exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and procedures (Score 3.0 content).
1.0
The student:
can, with help, ask and answer simple questions with errors that don’t interfere with comprehension.
0.5
With help, the student demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) but not the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
Proficiency Scale for Level I (high school course)
Score
Description
Sample Activity
4.0
In addition to Score 3.0, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding more complex material that go beyond end of instruction expectations.
-
3.5
In addition to Score 3.0 performance, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding the more complex content with partial success.
3.0
“The Standard.” The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding any of the information and processes that were end of instruction expectations.
-
2.5
The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and partial knowledge of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
2.0
The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes but exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
-
1.5
The student demonstrates partial knowledge of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) but exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and procedures (Score 3.0 content).
1.0
With help, the student demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and some of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
-
0.5
With help, the student demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) but not the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
Proficiency Scale for Level II (high school course)
Score
Description
Sample Activity
4.0
In addition to Score 3.0, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding more complex material that go beyond end of instruction expectations.
-
3.5
In addition to Score 3.0 performance, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding the more complex content with partial success.
3.0
“The Standard.” The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding any of the information and processes that were end of instruction expectations.
-
2.5
The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and partial knowledge of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
2.0
The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes but exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
-
1.5
The student demonstrates partial knowledge of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) but exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and procedures (Score 3.0 content).
1.0
With help, the student demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and some of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
-
0.5
With help, the student demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) but not the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).