Compare your own culture to others, identify similarities and differences, and develop respect for cultural diversity through language learning.

Compare words, sounds, writing systems, and word order across languages to discover what makes each language unique and how they connect us.

Explore cultural products including food, music, clothing, art, landmarks, and languages from different regions.

Use digital tools and collaborative projects to share language and culture learning, culminating in a final showcase presentation.

Understand what culture is and explore daily practices, celebrations, and traditions from different regions around the world.

Understand what it means to learn a language, explore different ways to practice, and recognize the languages present in one's own community.

Practice asking and answering questions and exchanging personal information in conversational settings, with attention to cultural appropriateness.

Identify recurring grammatical patterns like word order and gender, and use them to build sentences and guess meanings in a new language.

Develop basic listening comprehension skills in a new language, from recognizing familiar sounds to understanding conversations and stories.

Present language and culture learning to a live audience through oral presentations, performances, and storytelling.

Develop early reading skills in a new language by progressing from familiar words to short sentences, signs, and simple stories.

Discover how languages differ in sentence structure, question formation, and writing systems including symbols and reading direction.

Learn to speak basic words and phrases in a new language, including greetings, introductions, polite words, numbers, colors, and family vocabulary.

Understand how words can look or sound similar across languages and trace where English words come from.

Create written and visual artifacts such as reports, posters, and cards to share language and culture learning.

Learn to write letters, words, and short sentences in a new language, building from tracing to composing simple descriptions.