Children develop active listening skills and respond through action-related talk. They strengthen their comprehension skills, using contextual and grammatical cues as well as phonic and non-verbal cues. Students experiment with pronunciation and intonation in Italian, noticing similarities and differences with other familiar languages. Students extend their knowledge of the definite and indefinite articles, and of gender and singular/plural forms. Il Piccolo Bruco Maisazio (The Very Hungry Caterpillar) We will be reading this book together as a class. Once we have identified and understood the vocab of this book. Using both hard copy and online translating devices aiming on increase our dictionary skills. Taking a look at what we can see in il giardino (the garden) and l’orto (the vegetable patch).
Students will be given the opportunity to create their own illustrated version of the book and have an opportunity to read the story out loud to the class and will be published online.
We will also be revisiting saluti(greetings) and i numeri(numbers).