Colorado

Academic Standards for World Languages

Overview

Rosetta Stone Foundations Spanish is aligned to the Colorado Academic Standards for World Languages, providing students with everything they need to succeed in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

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Colorado Academic Standards for World Languages Novice

1. Communication: Communicate effectively in more than one language in order to function in a variety of situations and for multiple purposes

1.0

Standard Descriptor

Interact and negotiate meaning in spoken, signed, or written conversations to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions (interpersonal mode).

Rosetta Stone Foundations Component
  • Online Lessons Most online Course lessons model conversations and provide learners with language to apply this standard.
  • Teacher's Guide In most Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Workbook Some Workbook activities model conversations and provide learners with language to apply this standard.
  • Supplemental Readings Many Unit Readings and Storybook activities model conversations and provide learners with language to apply this standard.

2.0

Standard Descriptor

Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics (interpretive mode).

Rosetta Stone Foundations Component
  • Online Lessons Most online Course lessons model communication and provide learners with language to apply this standard.
  • Teacher's Guide In many Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Workbook Some Workbook activities model communication and provide learners with language to apply this standard.
  • Supplemental Readings In all Unit Readings and Storybook activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.

3.0

Standard Descriptor

Present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers (presentational mode).

Rosetta Stone Foundations Component
  • Online Lessons Most online Course lessons model language structures and vocabulary that learners can use to apply this standard.
  • Teacher's Guide In most Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Workbook Some Workbook activities model language structures and vocabulary on familiar topics, which learners can use to apply this standard.
  • Supplemental Readings In all Unit Readings and Storybook activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.

2. Cultures - Intercultural Communication: Interact with cultural competence and understanding

4.0

Standard Descriptor

Use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the cultures studied.

Rosetta Stone Foundations Component
  • Online Lessons Many online Course lessons identify typical practices related to familiar everyday life, and provide learners with language to apply this standard.
  • Teacher's Guide In many Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teachers Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Workbook In some Workbook activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Supplemental Readings In many Unit Readings and Storybook activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.

5.0

Standard Descriptor

Use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationship between the products and perspectives of the cultures studied.

Rosetta Stone Foundations Component
  • Online Lessons Many online Course lessons identify typical products related to familiar everyday life, and provide learners with language to apply this standard.
  • Teacher's Guide In many Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Workbook Some Workbook activities identify typical products related to familiar everyday life, and provide learners with language to apply this standard.
  • Supplemental Readings In many Unit Readings and Storybook activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.

3. Connections: Connect with other disciplines and acquire information and diverse perspectives in order to use the language to function in academic and career-related situations

6.0

Standard Descriptor

Build, reinforce, and expand their knowledge of other disciplines while using the language to develop critical thinking and to solve problems creatively.

Rosetta Stone Foundations Component
  • Online Lessons Some online Course lessons present and practice the language needed to expand a student's knowledge of other disciplines, which learners can use to apply this standard.
  • Teacher's Guide In many Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Workbook In some Workbook activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Supplemental Readings In some Unit Readings and Storybook activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.

7.0

Standard Descriptor

Access and evaluate information and diverse perspectives that are available through the language and its culture(s).

Rosetta Stone Foundations Component
  • Online Lessons Some online Course lessons present vocabulary representative of diverse perspectives and cultures, which learners can use to apply this standard.
  • Teacher's Guide In many Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Workbook Some workbook activities present vocabulary representative of diverse perspectives and cultures, which learners can use to apply this standard.
  • Supplemental Readings In many Unit Readings and Storybook activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.

4. Comparisons: Develop insight into the nature of language and culture in order to interact with cultural competence

8.0

Standard Descriptor

Use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the nature of language through comparisons of the target language studied and the student's own language.

Rosetta Stone Foundations Component
  • Teacher's Guide In some Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activites, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.

9.0

Standard Descriptor

Use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the concept of culture through comparisons of the culture(s) and the student's own culture.

Rosetta Stone Foundations Component
  • Online Lessons Some online Course lessons present activities about daily life that are practiced differently across cultures, which learners can use to apply this standard.
  • Teacher's Guide In many Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to reflect on the concept of culture.
  • Workbook Some Workbook activities present aspects of daily life that are practiced differently across cultures, which learners can use to apply this standard.
  • Supplemental Readings Many Unit Readings and Storybook activities demonstrate cultural practices; learners can use the information to apply this standard.