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

PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES

• ask and respond to simple questions
• use basic greetings
• communicate personal information orally with brief and simple messages
• respond to simple classroom instructions

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SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

• Ask students to use Japanese when organizing items of clothing into categories such as colour or type. Have students, working in pairs, direct partners to select items from a pile containing modern and traditional Japanese apparel. Encourage them to perform this task using Japanese words, loan words, and phrases they have learned.
• In Japanese, conduct classroom activities such as calling attendance and relaying information that relates to the calendar (e.g., days of the week, dates, announcements of birthdays and significant holidays).
• Invite students to create and maintain personal picture dictionaries. As new Japanese words are learned, students could illustrate them in their dictionaries with drawings or magazine clippings.
• Have students use pre-framed models of sentence patterns to greet and introduce one another. For example:
• Ohayou gozaimasu desu.
• _____________ desu.
• Provide opportunities for students to follow routine classroom directions and instructions in Japanese. Encourage them to use gestures to clarify meaning.

SUGGESTED ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES

• When students work with partners to categorize and choose items of clothing and apparel, look for evidence that they can:
  • choose the appropriate clothing type from the directions
  • use Japanese words for colour
  • use Japanese words for clothing types
• When students engage in calendar and other opening activities, look for evidence that they are responding with increasing independence and confidence. Note the extent to which students:
  • use the Japanese words for the days of the week and months of the year
  • use common greetings and phrases appropriately
  • respond appropriately to simple questions
  • participate willingly
• As students interview one another, note and provide feedback on the extent to which they are able to:
  • make themselves understood
  • ask questions
  • respond to simple and familiar questions
  • show increasing comfort and confidence
  • perform introductions and basic greetings
  • use patterns the teacher has modelled
  • use an increasing variety of words and expressions
• Self-assessment is an important part of language learning. As students develop and practise language skills, have them keep track of what they know by recording in their personal picture dictionaries and learning logs observations and reflections about how they are learning.

RECOMMENDED LEARNING RESOURCES

• 501 Japanese Verbs
• "Body" Language
• Daily Expressions in Japanese
• A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
• Everyday Japanese
• Ikimashoo
• In Japan
• Nihongo Daisuki! Japanese For Children Through Games and Songs

• Niko Niko

• Lyric Language: Japanese
• Rapanese 1, 2, 3

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