Editable Unit Template & Lesson Guide | Classroom Commands Pre Unit French 1
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Description
Planning your French 1 back to school or classroom commands and phrases unit? Turn weeks of work into just a few hours when designing a comprehensible input and proficiency oriented, ACTFL aligned unit with this completely editable template and guide! This customizable school life level 1 unit guide includes everything you need from planning to teaching. Get your entire suggested vocabulary and grammar content, functional chunks, cultural lessons and connections, and even a suggested lesson plan!
This French 1 tool will transform your thematic units into proficiency based masterpieces - in mere hours!
Editable templates with EVERYTHING your unit guide needs to deepen community connections, target language use, proficiency goals, and truly meaningful cultural connections through the 5 Cs of ACTFL.
Note on ACTFl standards:
All standards are based on ACTFL, but this unit template is easily editable. If you use CEFR or another guide - Canada & Australia, don't worry - I didn't forget you!
How does it work?
Transform your French 1 curriculum by basing your units off of a completed template! Instead of trying to put all the correct pieces of unit design together yourself, this unit template does it for you:
✅ Completed functional chunks (grammar content presented through the lens of proficiency)
✅ Complete vocabulary and communicative goals
✅ Complete can-do statements and ACTFL performance indicators done for you
✅ Complete lesson plan outline with suggested activities
✅ Notes on instruction and implementation
✅ Assessment and project ideas
Who is this for?
This unit template is for world language teachers - but especially French 1 teachers - who want/need to teach a thematic unit with classroom vocabulary & classroom commands. The unit guide is for teachers moving towards proficiency oriented goals in class using ACTFL or CEFR standards. Lesson plan loose outlines are designed for high school block, but can be easily adjusted for your grade level & class length.
NOTE for all world language teachers:
YES! This unit guide is editable and easily workable for your language. All vocabulary and functional chunks are provided in English and easily editable if you teach German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, etc.
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Will this work for my curriculum?
Here's the very best part about these unit templates: they are designed for EVERYONE!
No matter what curriculum, scope and sequence, other CI resources, or textbook you use, this unit will fit in your plan.
Every single unit template exists as its own deal.
It doesn't build on other assumed prior knowledge, or other content you may have covered. but you can certainly add/remove things to suit you!
It's simply the exact topics you're looking for at your students' level!
Not only is everything completely editable for your needs, you can mix & match these unit templates with anything you're already using just fine.
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What's the teaching focus of this unit?
Purpose: Give students the most useful, most frequently used structures in the classroom context to maximize target language use from day 1. Give students basic tools to understand and interact with classroom environment, teacher, and each other.
FOCUS: enable a rich target language environment by equipping students to both understand the teacher and navigate the classroom.
Vocabulary/Functional Chunks:
- What do students need to navigate the environment?
- What do students need to interact with and understand the teacher?
- What do students need to interact with each other?
- What do students need to navigate a new language?
Complete with all the ACFTL tools and standards done for you! Simply follow the video class to customize your template.
With all the proficiency standards gruntwork and research done for you, you can focus on the fun part - picking exciting and thoughtful lessons and activities for students!
The editable unit template is designed with interculturality, deep cultural connections, and ACTFL-aligned novice-low target language use for level 1 or complete beginners to Spanish or French.
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Includes:
- a customizable, editable guide in Google Docs™
- a full sample unit with ACTFL standards
- Instructions on how to use and customize template
- Completely editable level 1 curriculum template
- Filled in ACTFL standards and performance indicators for novice low to mid
- Suggested unit map for level 1 with can-do statements, essential questions, standards, unit themes, cultural connections, and goals
- Rough lesson plan outline with ideas and activity suggestions (completely editable)
- Assessment and project ideas
Sections of Each Unit:
- Desired Results -
- Topics/Themes
- ACTFL World-Readiness Standards
- Performance Indicators & Can-Do Statements
- Essential Question
- Enduring Understanding
- 5 Cs of Culture
- Assessment and Project Ideas
- Functional Chunks and Key Vocabulary - this is the linguistic content of your unit.
- High-Frequency Structures based on the Orders of Acquisition
- Rough Lesson Plan Outlines (for 90 min high school block schedule - all customizable)
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Read More on the Blog:
You can read more about how I use comprehensible input in my high school world language classes on my blog here.
See this resource in action with lesson plan ideas and related resources in this blog series:
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