[email protected] | Customer Support 1-800-269-6311 17 Project-focused Learning Track Projects help students build on their knowledge and their relationships with other students. Each lesson of Portales 2.0 includes one themebased project, with assignable tasks over the course of the lesson. Students will learn and practice research skills, language skills, and communication skills. Assignable Integrated Performance Assessments (IPAs) IPAs use authentic cultural content, complete with rubric grading and video upload. These assessments measure student progress toward proficiency in the three modes of communication: Interpretive, Interpersonal, and Presentational. Expanded video content • New Fotonovela episodes that engage students and bridge language and culture • Ten new En pantalla TV clips with authentic advertising and broadcast clips from different Spanish-speaking countries • Eighty-four new Panorama cultural videos, which provide compelling visuals to accompany Panorama activities Art and illustration program The updated art and illustration program is full of contemporary, diverse illustrations that put vocabulary into today’s social context and support inclusive teaching practices. Group and individual video recording submission expand student production Group Chat and Individual Recording Activities allow single or multiple students to record a video production exercise, providing instructors with more flexibility in creating and assigning activities to groups within their classes. Group Chat offers valuable practice that simulates the conversations most typical to a language classroom. These activities also ready students for authentic communication with native speakers, which typically occurs in a group setting. Communicative Goals and Can-do Statements build student’s confidence Communicative goals are now listed at the beginning of each section. After the activities in that section, the “I can” statement reminds students which goal they achieved. At the end of the lesson, a summary of the communicative goals achieved and a review activity for each goal are presented. Annotations to the Instructor indicate the correlation to the ACTFL standards. What’s new to this edition? SPANISH INTRODUCTORY
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