Step 1 - La gallina Catalina kit
Step 1 - La gallina Catalina kit
Step 1 - La gallina Catalina kit
Step 1 - La gallina Catalina kit

Step 1 - La gallina Catalina kit

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NEW La gallina Catalina Kit - 2019 

In response to teacher feedback, this kit has many new features... more technology, fully-described lesson plans, focus on thinking skills and creativity!

The Play

This is the adapted version of the popular fairy tale, La gallina Catalina. It is the perfect way for very young student to begin a new story. They come to the new language with a known context, so that words are predictable. Lots of repetition and humor, drama, music and dance are found throughout to engage students from the very first day!

Teachers have been thrilled with ¡Historias en acción! para pequeños, the AIM resource for young beginners. 

    Kit Content

    The Whole-Class Activities Book and associated Blackline Masters or Student Book guide you and your students through the implementation of the core methodology. You are shown how to accelerate proficiency through a scaffolded, systematic approach, so that students are able to engage in productive and interactive language activities.

    Whole-Class Activities Book includes:

    • Fully-described activities in five- to ten-minute segments
    • Classroom management systems
    • Entry and leaving routines
    • Vocabulary lists
    • Game cards

    Program Guide*

    Overview of the Principles, strategies and techniques for successful implementation of the methodology in relation to how it develops authentic proficiency through the levels as stated in the CEFR.

    *Included only in every Step 1 Kit 

    Partner/Group Activities Book (Blackline Masters)

    Including the play, vocabulary list, language-manipulation activities, simple and more complex oral and written questions based on the story, creative writing activities and words to the accompanying songs.

    • Student Workbooks are available as an additional purchase.  
    • Student Digital Workbooks are available for 1:1 classrooms as an additional purchase.

    Big Book

    For younger classes, shared reading with the Big Book is a very important AIM activity. For older classes you may also use the e-reader of this same book, projected from the Portal, if you purchase a subscription/

    Posters and Image Cards

    • Image cards of words not gestured
    • Song and rap posters with lyrics

    AIM Kit Portal (2-year subscription)

    Portal

    A two-year subscription comes with the purchase of the Kit

    The Portal contains aspects of the content found in the Guides (videos, songs, e-readers, listening activities). Student digital workbooks available for the Portal as an additional purchase.

    • The songs (with instrumental versions)
    • Fun classroom raps (with instrumental versions)
    • E-reader of the story with highlighted text and audio
    • Gestured vocabulary for this kit
    • Music videos 
    • The play gestured for this kit
    • The play performed by students in costume
    • An authentic first class with AIM
    • Additional Teacher Instructional Videos
    • Complimentary access for 32 students 
    Student Workbooks

    A Student Book saves a lot of photocopying time and ensures that all student work is kept neatly in one place.

    Available in both hard copy and digital format on the Portal for 1:1 classrooms.

    Supplementary Resources

    Once you have begun to use AIM, you might like to consider resources that will enhance your implementation of AIM:

    Hard copy and digital e-readers

    Dance videos

    Teacher Training

    Initial and ongoing teacher training is key to the successful implementation of AIM.

    We recommend that teachers come to training at least every one to two years, and new ideas are introduced to help teachers move forward with AIM. We have many options for you, both In-Person and Virtual!

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    The Gesture Approach

    The AIM is a methodology that supports students by providing strategies and techniques that ensure student language acquisition and a high level of engagement. The Gesture Approach allows students to visualize, hear, say and 'feel' the language simultaneously, resulting in rapid proficiency development.

    A Literacy- and Arts-Based Approach

    Through the use of story and drama, songs, raps, and dances, students are moving to the language as they create meaning. Scaffolding and cooperative learning strategies help all students - the shy, weak, and strong - to find great support and success.

    High-Frequency Vocabulary

    One of the most important aspects of AIM that ensures student success is the high-frequency vocabulary (Pared-Down Language) that threads throughout every aspect of this methodology. AIM is designed such that each word is repeated extensively, allowing students to develop a strong foundation for language proficiency.

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