Italy Standards Alignments

Italian

Listen and Talk

• Interact collaboratively in a conversation, discussion, dialogue on topics of direct experience, ask questions, give answers and give explanations and examples.

• Understand the theme and essential information of an exhibition (direct or broadcast); understand the purpose and topic of

• the messages spread by the media (announcements, bulletins...).

• Formulate precise and relevant questions for in-depth explanation and analysis during or after listening

• Understand slogans and instructions for carrying out school and extracurricular activities.

• Understand the positions expressed by classmates in a discussion and express their opinion on a topic in a clear and pertinent way.

• Tell personal experiences or invented stories organizing the story clearly, respecting the chronological order and logical and inserting the appropriate descriptive and informative elements.

• Organize a simple oral discourse on a topic covered in class with a previously prepared short speech or a presentation on a study topic using a ladder.

Writing

• Acquire the manual, perceptive and cognitive skills necessary to learn to write.

• Write to dictation paying special attention to spelling.

• Produce simple functional, narrative and descriptive texts linked to specific purposes (for personal use, to communicate with others, to remember, etc.) and connected to everyday situations (school and/or family context).

• Communicate with simple and complete sentences, structured in short texts that respect the orthographic conventions and scoring.

Acquisition and extension of the receptive and productive lexicon

• Understand the meaning of unknown words in short texts based on both context and cone.

• intuitive knowledge of word families.

• Expand the lexical heritage through school and extracurricular experiences and oral and reading interaction

• Use words appropriately as you learn them.

• Perform simple searches on words and expressions present in the texts, to expand the lexicon of use.

Elements of explicit grammar and reflection on the uses of the language

• Compare texts to capture some specific characteristics (for example, greater or lesser effectiveness

• communication, differences between oral and written text, etc.).

• Recognize if a sentence is complete or not, that is, formed by the essential elements (subject, verb,

• necessary accessories).

• Pay attention to the spelling of the words in the texts and apply spelling knowledge in their written production.