Grade 3 LOTE Alabama Standards

Comparisons

Modern Languages

Reciting poems, songs, short anecdotes, and folk tales

Retell stories in the target language using learned vocabulary and proper pronunciation and intonation.

Describe tangible products from a target culture.

Organize an activity using authentic target language resources.

Communication

Categorize target language and culture information by relating it to a corresponding school subject area.

Connections

Cultures

Identify simple target language words from diverse children's multimedia sources.

Identify children's songs and selections from target culture literature, including traditional poetry and rhymes.

Identify common practices and perspectives of contemporary life of a target culture.

Communities

Create simple sentences to communicate in the target language about familiar topics.

Identify words common to both the target language and to English, including cognates and borrowed words.

Identifying main ideas, characters, and settings in stories

Name professions that benefit from proficiency in the target language.

Use appropriate gestures, etiquette, and oral expressions for greetings, farewells, and common classroom interactions.

Compare authentic materials of the target culture to their own.