Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively.
A knowledge and skills statement is a broad statement of what students must know and be able to do. It generally begins with a learning strand and ends with the phrase “The student is expected to:” Knowledge and skills statements always include related student expectations.
Glossary Support for SLA.3.3.B
Students should know that many words in the Spanish language look or sound like other words with completely different meanings. These multiple-meaning words require students to use the information around the word, either spoken or written, to determine how the word should be interpreted. Multiple-meaning words are challenging in reading because readers must rely solely on the context to know which form of a word is being used. For example, the word bote may refer to a vessel to transport by water or to a sealed container for food or beverages. In the following sentence, El bote se movía a gran velocidad por el lago, it’s clear which meaning of bote the writer intends.
