
EntreCultures 1
Level 1 / Novice Low — Novice High
Overview
In EntreCultures 1, the first in the EntreCultures series, your learners will build the language skills, personal attitudes, and cultural insights necessary to experience life "entre cultures," using French to connect with others.
To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world.
Chinese Proverb
EntreCultures - A Cohesive System
The standards-based EntreCultures program is all about teaching French language and francophone cultures to novice through intermediate learners through the lens of interculturality. Students discover appropriate ways to interact with a variety of perspectives by exploring the lives of teens across the francophone world and engaging with authentic resources from the beginning.
In level 1, learners build the language skills, personal attitudes, and cultural insights necessary to experience life entre cultures, using French to connect with people in francophone communities and in their own. Vocabulary and grammar are presented in context and with visual support to aid comprehension. The online Explorer® provides all audio-visual resources, online versions of activities from the student text, supplementary activities for vocabulary and grammar reinforcement, an online portfolio for students to track their own progress, and the searchable Instructional Strategies Toolkit for teachers.
EntreCultures 1 supports teachers in assessing what learners can do with the language they have acquired through three differentiated formative performance-based assessments and a summative Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) per unit. Assessment-specific, analytic, and holistic performance rubrics accompany this series in print and online, so teachers and students can stay on track. Can-Do statements identify key learning goals and allow for student self-assessment using the Portfolio.
The educator-author teams considered a variety of learner and educator styles in the backward design of the series. The program integrates the 2017 World-Readiness Standards and aligns with or exceeds every state’s content standards for world languages. Content includes IB and AP® task types and themes that support our commitment to empowering each learner to communicate in the real world. Units are clearly organized with ample strategies and support offered in the textbook, on LearningSite®, and in a constantly growing community of proficiency practitioners.
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Features
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The EntreCultures series is chock-full of unit-aligned authentic resources from more than thirty Francophone cultures around the world, like podcasts, news stations, video bloggers, and more.
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EntreCultures nurtures your learners' interculturality by layering in reflection on the products, practices, and perspectives of French-speaking communities, as well as how diverse language, culture, geography, and environments affect the world around them.
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The EntreCultures series lead with AP® and IB themes, and teacher resources in the front and end matter of the Teacher Edition outline AP® and IB themes and subthemes, so you can start your learners on the right foot.
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Can-do statements in each unit of EntreCultures show learners a direct connection between tasks and what they are aiming to be able to do in French. They also support learners' social and emotional learning in developing skills and attitudes within the five dimensions of CASEL's Instruction and Classroom Climate Core (the CASEL 5).
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EntreCultures contains performance-based formative and summative assessments throughout each level. We also provide lots of teacher supports to foster your success, including assessment guidelines, rubrics for IPAs, analytic and holistic rubrics, and more.
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Each teacher edition of EntreCultures provides guidance in incorporating proficiency-based instruction in your classroom, provides ample tips and ideas throughout each unit, and includes a section on teaching strategies.
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AP® and IB® Correlation Guide
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California Correlation
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CASEL 5: Social-Emotional Learning Correlation
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Florida Correlation
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NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Correlation Guide
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Oregon Instructional Material Criterion
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Social Justice Correlation
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Texas Correlation
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Virginia Correlation
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EntreCultures 1 CI-ADI Readers Correlation Guide
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