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= The Connecticut World Languages Unit Creation Institute Website =

Welcome to the Connecticut PreK-8 World Language Units website!

In the summer of 2010, thirteen world language teachers from all over Connecticut worked together to create content-related units in Chinese, Japanese, French and Spanish. Each of these units is aligned with both the [|Connecticut World Languages Framework] (2005) and the frameworks of various content-specific areas as published at the [|Connecticut Department of Education Website.]

You are free to browse and use these units in your classrooms! The authors have included their full unit plan, and many handouts and assessments for you. Please send feedback and suggestions to the authors of the units as well. If you would like to create and contribute a unit on your own, please visit the 1 Making These Units! page in order to download the Unit Template and other documents or links you might need. If you have any further questions, please contact Jessica Haxhi at jhaxhi@waterbury.k12.ct..us. If you would like more resources for instruction, advocacy, and assesssment, go to our CT world languages K-8 wiki at http://ctworldlanguagesk8.wikispaces.com/.

We hope that these units are a useful tool for the integration of Connections (content-area) instruction with Communication, Culture, Comparisons and Communities of the national Standards for Foreign Language Learning.

The Connecticut World Languages Unit Creation Institute 2010 was sponsored by [|Education Connection,] The participants in this institute had been previously trained through the K-8 Methods, Materials, and Curriculum Development Institutes (2006-2009), sponsored by the Connecticut Department of Education in cooperation with Education Connection.