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🍎 Teacher guide
How the Language Lab fits the NYS World Languages standards, class routines, smart-board mode, and what each language includes.
Native-speaker review: in progress
Standards families
Built around the families of the NYS Learning Standards for World Languages (2021). We name the families, not individual standard numbers.
Interpretive communicationUnderstand what you hear and read: Listen buttons, word rooms, phrase cards, the daily round.
Interpersonal communicationTalk with others: greetings, classroom requests, asking for help, partner phrase practice.
Presentational communicationSpeak or write for others: say the Word of the Day to the class, trace and write characters and letters.
CulturesPractices and perspectives: notes such as Bonjour to everyone, the weekend in many Arab countries, the host's words at a Chinese meal.
ComparisonsCompare languages: Take it apart, word-for-word notes, how each language says "the", writing systems side by side.
Class routines
- 5-minute warm-up: put the Word of the Day on the board, the class says it three times, then plays the round with choral answers.
- Find the… relay: in smart-board mode, students take turns tapping the object the room asks for.
- Phrase pairs: partners take turns asking and answering one situation (greetings, help, directions).
- Take it apart: students explain each piece of a phrase in their own words before they say it.
- Newcomer buddies: students new to English use English for newcomers, with all help in Spanish.
Smart-board mode makes words and buttons bigger on every Language Lab page on this device.
What each language includes
| Language | Room words | Words and phrases | Writing items | Voice on this device |
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Spanish is Latin American, with notes for Spain. French and Italian are standard school forms. Mandarin uses simplified characters and pinyin with tone marks. Arabic is Modern Standard Arabic, written right to left, with transliteration. English for newcomers gives all help in Spanish.
Privacy
- No accounts and no sign-in.
- No microphone, no speech recognition, no recordings. Listening uses the device's own voices.
- Stars and review dates stay in this browser on this device.
- Students only see "Show a grown-up". Sharing is for adults.
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