View the following video (let's call it Video One) and describe of some of the strategies you see the teacher use to increase the lesson's comprehensibility: http://tinyurl.com/nrfc77b (Approximate length: 6 minutes)
View the next video (Video Two) and describe of some of the strategies you see the teacher use to check for student understanding: http://tinyurl.com/mwjn8vv (Approximate length: 2 minutes)
View the next video (Video Three) and describe some of the strategies you see the teacher use to start focusing on the grammatical construct: http://tinyurl.com/p4bkhz7 (Approximate length: 4 minutes)
View the next video (Video Four) and list some of the activities that are suggested for the final stage of PACE: http://tinyurl.com/qatdd38 (Approximate length: 1 minute)
Read over the following document which provides suggestions for Extension Activities:
2. PACE: Story-Based Language Approach. This will be completed in class. You don't need to print these for class. If you are absent, you will be expected to complete all four parts of PACE.
1. Your textbook - We will absolutely use the book today!
2. Textbook or other resource (instructional material) addressing a particular grammatical form. A children's storybook and/or song would also suffice. Whatever you bring, it must have a grammatical form repeated throughout the resource. You will use this resource in completing the class assignment: the Story-Based Language Approach.
TO PREPARE FOR OUR CLASS THIS WEEK, DO THE FOLLOWING:
1. READ: Teacher's Handbook: Chapter 7 "Using a Story-Based Approach to Teach Grammar."
2. Go to https://sites.google.com/site/teachingfrenchgrammar/pace-model. At this site, ready and study the information at the following links:
3. Skim through the additional following example:
4. CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING ACTIVITY: PACE
ASSIGNMENTS DUE THIS WEEK:
1. Checking for Understanding Activity: PACE
2. PACE: Story-Based Language Approach. This will be completed in class. You don't need to print these for class. If you are absent, you will be expected to complete all four parts of PACE.
PACE Directions:
PACE Evaluation Forms (Rubrics)
MATERIALS TO BRING TO CLASS THIS WEEK:
1. Your textbook - We will absolutely use the book today!
2. Textbook or other resource (instructional material) addressing a particular grammatical form. A children's storybook and/or song would also suffice. Whatever you bring, it must have a grammatical form repeated throughout the resource. You will use this resource in completing the class assignment: the Story-Based Language Approach.
3. Notes on PACE:
4. PACE Model Example - Future Tense
5. PACE Lesson Example - Formal Commands, and accompanying handout (Guia para la adquisicion responsable de una mascota)
TODAY'S CLASS AGENDA:
Grammar Instruction: Explicit/Implicit Controversy
Story-Based Approach to Grammar: PACE
Groupwork: Story-Based Language Approach (PACE)