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High School AP: Targeted skills and knowledge


Can Do Statement Daily Lessons Summative Assessment

 

Sentence Patterns

  • A   让        B         verb
  • 把 obj       当成    noun

Vocabulary

Prior-knowledge  
家庭、愿意、受欢迎、受伤、感受、职业、经济、机会           

Core Vocabulary - Targeted Vocabulary
享受、成员、提高、时尚、减少、水平、独生、责任感、产品、服务业、增长、赚钱、孤独 、自私

Supplementary Vocabulary - Recognition only
亲密 、领养、寄养、流浪、夫妻、五星级、发展、一部分、空巢、丁克家庭

Character learning and reading skills focused objectives

Character Learning:

  • Infer meaning of words combined with familiar characters.
  • Expanding characters into words.

Reading Skills: 

Pre-reading

  • Using keywords/images to activate background knowledge
  • Using keywords/images to foster predicting and contextualizing skills
  • Predicting text content and checking predictions
  • Specifying the purpose for reading
  • Identifying text types

During Reading

  • Using graphic organizers to analyze text structures
  • Connecting textual relationship
  • Making inferences

Post-Reading

  • Summarizing information
  • Reflecting on what has been learned from the text
  • Evaluating text in one’s own opinion