This sub-organizer contains the following sections:
Prescribed Learning Outcomes
Suggested Instructional Strategies
Suggested Assessment Strategies
Recommended Learning Resources

PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES

• locate, process, and adapt information from age-appropriate Japanese-language resources to complete authentic tasks
• convey acquired information in oral and visual forms, and in writing using hiragana  and katakana 

SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

• Provide students with examples of completed Japanese forms (e.g., shinkansen  forms, visa application or extension forms, bank account applications), accessible from the Internet or other sources. Ask students to infer what information is being requested. Then have each student complete authentic blank Japanese forms.
• Invite a guest or a student who is fluent in Japanese to demonstrate assembling a traditional Japanese table setting. Then provide students in groups with task sheets that list the steps in incorrect order. Have students renumber the steps in the correct order and match pictures of the items with their names in Japanese. Students could then create collages of pictures related to the demonstration and present them with commentaries to the class.
• Provide students with Japanese youth magazines and have them select articles or sections that interest them. Ask students to highlight familiar words and phrases and predict the meaning of the texts. After they have verified the key information, using dictionaries if needed, students exchange articles along with three related questions. The questions are to be answered by their classmates.
• Show students a selection of age-appropriate reference materials (e.g., newspaper and magazine articles and Internet addresses). Have them select topics from these and create visual displays based on what they have learned. The displays could include some simple labels in Japanese.

SUGGESTED ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES

• When students write questions based on articles or fill in Japanese forms, assess their abilities to use acquired information to complete authentic tasks. Criteria for assessment might focus on the extent to which:
  • the material is effectively organized and the message is clear
  • Japanese script for common learned words is included
  • information is complete and relevant
  • language is appropriate (e.g., sequencing of words, grammar, past tense)
  • the appropriate form is used for each purpose
• To assess short written assignments, look for evidence that students are able to:
  • use correct word order, putting the verb last
  • use particles accurately
  • write sentences following the patterns modelled
  • follow structural patterns to organize sentences into simple stories
• Have students keep up-to-date notebooks in which they set personal goals for acquiring or extending specific language skills. Encourage them to chart their progress regularly, making comparisons to previous performance and their set targets. The notebooks could document effective strategies students have used and provide opportunities for self-assessment.

RECOMMENDED LEARNING RESOURCES

• Active Japanese 5 and 6
• Collins Shubun English Japanese Dictionary (New - First Edition)
• Everyday Japanese
• Japan: An International Travel Map
• Japanese - An Appetizer
• Mangajin's Basic Japanese Through Comics
• Martin's Concise Japanese Dictionary
• Merriam Webster's Japanese-English Learner's Dictionary
• NTC's Basic Japanese

• 101 Japanese Idioms
• Japanese Language and People
• Moshi Moshi

• Exotic Japan

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