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Standard:
Demonstrate understanding of the general meaning and some basic information on very familiar common daily topics. Recognize memorized words, phrases, and simple sentences in authentic texts that are spoken, written, or signed.

Goal:
Students demonstrate understanding, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics, from authentic texts. They use technology, when appropriate, to access information.

Standard:
Participate in real-world, spoken, written, or signed conversations on very familiar topics. Use memorized words, phrases, and simple sentences, and questions in highly predictable common daily settings.

Goal:
Students interact and negotiate meaning in a variety of real-world settings and for multiple purposes, in spoken, signed, or written conversations. They use technology as appropriate, in order to collaborate, to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.

Standard:
Recognize opportunities to use age-appropriate, culturally authentic, real-world, and academic language in highly predictable common daily settings within target-language communities in the United States and around the world.

Goal:
Students use language in highly predictable daily settings (Novice); transactional and some informal settings (Intermediate); most informal and formal settings (Advanced); informal, formal, and professional settings, and unfamiliar and problem situations (Superior) in their communities and in the globalized world. Students recognize (Novice), participate in (Intermediate), initiate (Advanced), or sustain (Superior) language use opportunities outside the classroom and set goals while reflecting on progress, and use language for enjoyment, enrichment, and advancement.

Standard:
Identify similarities and differences in the orthography, phonology, ASL parameters, and very basic sentence-level elements (morphology and/or syntax) of the languages known.

Goal:
To interact with communicative competence, students use the target language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the nature of language through comparisons of similarities and differences in the target language and the language(s) they know.

Standard:
Identify some similarities and differences among very familiar, common daily products, practices, and perspectives in the mainstream cultures of the United States, the students’ own cultures, and the target cultures.

Goal:
To interact with cultural competence, students use the target language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the nature of culture through comparisons of similarities and differences in the target cultures and the culture(s) they know.

Standard:
Identify cultural borrowings.

Goal:
To interact with intercultural competence, students demonstrate understanding and use the target language to investigate how cultures influence each other over time.

Standard:
State reasons for cultural borrowings.

Goal:
To interact with intercultural competence, students demonstrate understanding and use the target language to investigate how cultures influence each other over time.

Standard:
Exchange information about similarities and differences among common daily products, practices, and perspectives in the immediate environment in the mainstream cultures of the United States, the students’ own cultures, and the target cultures.

Goal:
To interact with cultural competence, students use the target language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the nature of culture through comparisons of similarities and differences in the target cultures and the culture(s) they know.

Standard:
Identify similarities and differences in the basic sentence-level elements (morphology and syntax) of the languages known.

Goal:
To interact with communicative competence, students use the target language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the nature of language through comparisons of similarities and differences in the target language and the language(s) they know.

Standard:
Recognize opportunities to use age-appropriate, culturally authentic, real-world, and academic language in highly predictable common daily settings within target-language communities in the United States and around the world.

Goal:
Students use language in highly predictable daily settings (Novice); transactional and some informal settings (Intermediate); most informal and formal settings (Advanced); informal, formal, and professional settings, and unfamiliar and problem situations (Superior) in their communities and in the globalized world. Students recognize (Novice), participate in (Intermediate), initiate (Advanced), or sustain (Superior) language use opportunities outside the classroom and set goals while reflecting on progress, and use language for enjoyment, enrichment, and advancement.