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Class overview

The core curriculum for grades 4K-4 is aimed towards achieving listening comprehension and pronunciation, with a growing emphasis on reading and writing skills upon entrance into 4th grade.  The main reason for the primary focus on listening and pronunciation is based on the fact that the child acquires language in the home setting first by listening, then mimicking and speaking (natural approach).  

         Instruction in grades 5-8 introduces students to the pronunciation and intonation patterns, some basic grammatical structures and vocabulary while developing elementary to novice listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.  At this level, students are required to produce and use the target language in many ways.  Students use language they learned in the classroom to communicate to the teacher, to one another, to ask each other for objects, give directions, describe people, places, and ask simple questions. 

The main focus in every grade level is acquiring the Spanish language through Comprehensible Input. The input in class is comprehensible to the students because it is related to their lives or reflects their interests.  Classroom language must be repetitive, interesting, varied, and believable in order for language acquisition through CI to be effective.