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Inseberg-Coast International German Nursery and Primary School Deutsche Grundschule

German Language

in the Primary School (up to Grade 4)

Programme Information

and Curriculum

2018 –

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Where Cultural Diversity Brings a Collective Strength

German Grades 1 – 4 Programme Information and Curriculum 1

At Inseberg-Coast International German School, the language of instruction and communication

is English. Every student must master English in order to fully participate in classroom learning

and the social aspects of student life. German is the second language at our school. All students

will be placed on their appropriate language level in German class.

Early Learning German Programme

In the Early Learning German Programme, students (aged 3 – 5) are taught by a German teacher

in their homeroom classes. The students are exposed to German language through stories,

games, instructional language and songs.

Primary School German Programme

Students in ICIGS Primary School German Programme are assigned to classes according to

their level of German proficiency. Native speakers are appointed to a German Language &

Literature class. Students who do not speak German or are new to the language participate in

German Language Acquisition classes.

German Language Acquisition: Our German Language Acquisition programme uses the

European Reference Framework as its key orientation. This framework is adapted to the

learning needs of children in Grades 1 – 4. A phase document is used as the grading

reference. In the Primary School, we use 3 phases, each of which is divided into 3

subphases. Beginners start in phase 1a, and progress through 1b and 1c before moving to

phase 2. During the school year, four units are taught.

Books created for non-native German language learners, are used as our main educational

resources, for example Planetino and Hallo Anna for Grade 1 and 2, Der grüne Max for

Grade 2 and 3, Beste Freunde, Wir and Team Deutsch for Grade 4.

German Language & Literature: In the German Language & Literature programme, the

Nordrhein-Westfalen “Kernlehrplan” is used as a key reference. Units of Inquiry and the

Reading and Writing Workshop Model are other resources included in this programme.

Einsterns Schwester is used as the main book resource in all Language & Literature

courses.

The units/ topics of our German Language & Literature are connected to the Units of Inquiry

in the homerooms and are often developed parallel to the homeroom classes. During the

school year, four units are taught.


Grade 1 German Language

German Language & Literature (for mother tongue level):

Who we are

Wer bin ich!

Students become familiar with

the German alphabet. They learn one- and two-syllabic

words and that writing is one form of expressing oneself.

How the World Works

Tiere

Students practise reading comprehension skills, e.g. finding keywords, finding

information, asking Wquestions, and writing cue cards for animals. They focus on spelling: Dehnungs-h and

Diphtongs.

Where we are in place and time

Häuser und Architektur

Students learn descriptions of buildings and architecture. They learn to embed a variety of adjectives in their speech and further their knowledge of correct sentence structure.

How we express ourselves

Wir lesen ein Buch – Die

Schnecke und der

Buckelwal/ Duda

Students learn to apply reading strategies according to the

workshop model. They learn how

to talk about plot, characters and setting. They inquire into how a

character speaks, feels and what he/she does. Students practise

reading for understanding and

how to extract information from a text, find keywords and

summarize texts based on keywords.


Grade 1 German 2017-2018


German Language Acquisition (German as a foreign language):

Das bin ich! Meine Familie.

Students become familiar with the German sound-symbol relationship. They learn basic vocabulary to introduce themselves and to talk about family, friends and hobbies. They learn verb endings 13.P.Sg. and how to build basic sentences with the correct structure. In der Schule

Students learn relevant

vocabulary. They learn to talk about activities at school and school materials. They use appropriate verb endings and sentence structure with basic prepositions such as "mit".

Was mache ich von morgens bis abends Students learn the vocabulary of their daily routines and how to read and tell time in German. They use correct verb endings and different sentence starters for their oral and written

communication. They focus on capitalization and the pronoun "es". Mein Haus

Students learn prepositions with

the dative case to describe a place (unter, hinter, auf, an,

neben). They use complete

sentences with different

sentence starters to describe a

house, rooms in a house and

items within a room. They focus

Ich bin ich!

Students increase their range of vocabulary regarding

themselves. The basic

sentence structure is well established and easily used.

They become familiar with verb-endings 1.-3.Person

Singular and practise using

them correctly.

Schule, Freizeit und Feste

Students learn definite and indefinite articles for familiar nouns. They widen their range of vocabulary and learn different activities, verbs for school, leisure time and

hobbies. Students use the first person singular, third person singular and first person plural. They conjugate verbs. They practise reading for understanding of non-fiction

texts as well as memorize and

present a poem.

Tiere

Students increase their vocabulary knowledge of basic

and more advanced adjectives

and body parts of animals. They describe an animal with

correct sentence structure, and can conjugate “haben” and

“sein” awhile using descriptive

vocabulary.

Körper und Kleidung

Students learn relevant

vocabulary to describe their

body in more detail. They use

Ich bin ich.

Students describe themselves in complete sentences. They increase their range of vocabulary for themselves, family, friends and their own environment and home.

Schule.

Students learn more advanced

vocabulary and sentence

structure. Students practise reading for understanding with

non-fiction texts, extracting information from a text and

answering content questions.

Tiere in unserem Umfeld

Students learn and use basic adjectives in their oral and written communication and the plural of familiar nouns. They practise reading comprehension with nonfiction texts and collect information from familiar texts.

Körperteile

Students increase their range of vocabulary, specifically nouns and their articles. They become familiar with accusative pronouns

"mein, dein" and use them correctly. They learn verbs and phrases: "Mir tut mein Bauch weh, was kann ich nicht tun?" They become familiar with the modal verb "können". rechts,

links, oben, unten.


on the capitalization of nouns, different sentence starters and descriptive vocabulary such as rechts, links, oben, unten.

complete sentence structure

with some more complex

sentence structure. They increase their range of vocabulary and adjectives.

Die Schnecke & der

Buckelwal – Theater

Students learn to apply reading

strategies according to the

workshop model. They learn how

to talk about plot, characters and

setting. They inquire into how a

character speaks, feels and what

he/she does. Students practise

reading for understanding and how

to extract information from a text,

find keywords and summarize

texts based on keywords.




Who we are

Irgendwie Anders

Students learn how to read

visuals, such as signs and symbols. They apply reading

strategies to gain information from texts and practise

describing items and visuals. In

addition, they express their own opinion on the content of a text.

They focus on the spelling of double consonants, ss-ß, qu,

and the spelling of the diphthongs eu, äu, ei.

How we organize ourselves

Procedural Writing

Students learn and practise procedural writing. They become familiar with the structure of a procedural writing task and develop their own. They learn specific

spelling features such as Dipthongs ie, ei, äu eu. They increase their range of vocabulary with higher level adjectives and connectives "zuerst, danach, schließlich" to

improve the quality of their

texts.


Der Künstler Miró

Students learn to apply reading strategies to gain information from texts. They learn how a biography is written and how paintings are described. They report about Miró’s life by using the Simple Past tense.

Where we are in time and place

Planeten

Students read non-fiction texts and analyze them. They learn

about adjectives, comparative forms of adjectives, Umlaute ä, ö,

ü and they practise reading for

understanding, answering content questions. They read a text for

understanding by applying the reading workshop model

strategies. After gaining

information of what an information text looks like, they write their own

information texts.

Das Sams – Theater

Students learn to apply reading strategies according to the workshop model. They learn how to talk about plot, characters and

setting. They inquire into how a character speaks, feels and what he/she does. Students practise reading for understanding and how to extract information from a text, find keywords and

summarize texts based on keywords.



Meine Welt und Ich

Students learn to introduce themselves, talk about themselves, their family, friends and environment. They become familiar with the German sound- symbol relationship, build up

vocabulary, perfect simple sentence structure and conjugation. Later in the unit, they focus on the accusative case and simple prepositions with the dative case.

Zuhause

Students learn vocabulary regarding their home and environment. They learn prepositions defining place: an,

in, über, unter, in, auf, hinter, zwischen with basic verb forms in the present tense.

Essen

Students learn vocabulary of food. They build simple

sentences using the accusative case. They respond to guiding questions and reasoning their opinion with sentences using "denn".

Das Sams – Theater

Students learn to apply reading

strategies according to the

workshop model. They learn

how to talk about plot,

characters and setting. They

inquire into how a character

speaks, feels and what he/she

does. Students practise reading

for understanding and how to

In der Stadt

Students describe their way

through a city and focus on local adverbs, sentence

structure and verb endings for

singular. They read, understand and create traffic

signs.

Märchen – Froschkönig

Students build up their

vocabulary. They practise text comprehension and answer

content questions. They develop their own dialogues

using rules for direct speech.

Freizeit & Spielen

Students focus on regular verbs, present tense, syntax patterns. They learn to

understand and to use instructions and challenges, rules and agreements appropriately.

Tiere

Students practise their reading for understanding and responding to guiding questions of non-fiction texts. Students focus on correct use of pronouns (er, sie, es), verb conjugation and how to

develop a non- fiction text with interesting facts. They learn about elements and correct

order of a text.

Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten

Students read a fictional story.

They revise and discuss elements and characteristics of a fairy tale

and have reading circles (partner,

circle, read aloud, read to each other). Students advance their

reading comprehension skills and state their own opinion, orally and in writing.

Essen & Trinken

Students learn the vocabulary of leisure time activities and hobbies. They focus on the

correct conjugation of regular and some irregular verbs, sentence

structure, and practise explaining

their own hobby on a more advanced level.

Students revise vocabulary for food, beverages and dialogues in

a restaurant and at a grocery

shop. They describe their own eating habits. The focus is on

nouns and articles, vowels, consonants, basic and more

advanced adjectives such as saftig, süß, schmackhaft.

Berufe

Students learn vocabulary to

name different professions and to

talk about their dream jobs. They

focus on writing complete

sentences and placing the verb in

second position. They listen to the

story “Der kleine Christbaum” and

develop their own ideas and

predict a different ending. They

create a puppet show. They focus

on correct usage of accusative

with familiar words.


extract information from a text, find keywords and summarize texts based on keywords.


Grade 3 German 2017-2018:



Who we are

Aufbau einer Erzählung

Students focus on elements and the structure of narrative writing. They use different sentence

starters, nouns and pronouns. They learn about word families such in the case of "sagen", "gehen".

How the world works

Entdecker und Erfinder

Students work with non-fiction texts and biographies. They focus on the perfect tense and some forms of the simple past.

They increase their reading comprehension and analyze texts: "Why does the author say that? What does it mean?” They focus on direct speech and correct sentence structure.


Gedichte & deutsche

Traditionen

German traditions and

festivities are in the students' focus. They learn poems, read texts about German traditions and answer content questions. They focus on Doppelmitlaute, in the endings of words,e.g.

b&p, t&d, g&k.


Ich lese ein deutsches Buch

- Lesekiste;

Antolinprogramm

Students choose a book they

would like to present to the class. They learn about the criteria for a presentation and how to give critical feedback on other students’ presentation. Students read a book of fiction.

They work on their reading comprehension using different strategies such as partner reading, circle reading, group reading. Their language focus is unknown words/nouns and their

specific spelling. They focus for example on nouns with -ung, heit.



Schule hier und anderswo

Students learn the vocabulary of school interiors and materials such as rooms, furniture and materials used in a lesson. They compare these with other schools. They use simple

present and complete simple sentences to describe their own school. They focus on sentence structure with the accusative case and some instructions, they would use in a school such as "Gib mir bitte..."

Piraten

Students increase their range of vocabulary. They read simple texts on pirates and learn reading comprehension skills,

ask questions, answer questions and use their findings for example when designing a wanted-poster.

Mein Haus

Students increase their range of vocabulary. They describe their home and their room using prepositions defining place "am, in, über", verb forms in the present tense and subordinates

"weil". They also focus on ie/ ei

spelling patterns.

Märchen

Students revise elements and

structure of narrative writing in fairy tales according to the

workshop model. They practise

direct speech and correct punctuation while they write

their own version of a fairytale. Students look at inverted

commas, conjugation of verbs

in the simple present and sentence structure having

subordinate clauses with "weil".

Tiere

Students read non-fiction texts

and apply reading strategies according to the reading

workshop model. They inquire

into the elements of the informational writing. They

research on one of their favourite animals and write an

informative text. They practise

verb conjugation and sentence structure such as main- and

subordinate clauses with "weil, deshalb, anschließend, etc.".

Ich lese ein deutsches Buch

– Lesekiste,

Antolinprogramm

Students choose a book and present their book with the help of the "Lesekiste". They apply reading strategies according to

the workshop model to find character traits and retell the plot. They use the verb forms in the appropriate simple present tense. In addition, they broaden their choice of adjectives.

Entdecker und Erfinder

Students learn how to express past events. They inquire into the regular and irregular verb forms in present perfect and use adverbial time expressions. They read level appropriate texts about explorers

and write texts about what those

explorers used to do.

Natur und Umwelt

Students read simple texts on

nature and the environment. They learn about indefinite articles (ein,

eine), and the correct usage of them in a sentence. They practise

their reading for understanding

and responding to guided questions. They focus on verb endings in the present tense.


Who we are

Ist mein Essen gesund?

Students learn about healthy food. They focus on

argumentative texts with main

clauses, subordinates "denn" and "weil”. They analyze

statements and justifications of opinion. They justify their own

eating habits and reasoning for

their choice of food. They focus on correct sentence structure

and the appropriate structure of their texts.

How we organize ourselves

Literatur

Students revise and summarize one chapter of the book and present it orally. They read the whole book independently and discuss content and answer

content questions. They practise reading comprehension, sentence structure and different parts of the sentence "Satzglieder".


Heimat: Meine Region,

Deutschland

Students read non-fiction texts

and discuss what home

means. They analyze texts regarding purpose and

meaning. They practise reading comprehension,

finding keywords, summarizing

texts, and extract important information.


Gedichte

Students read and discuss a fairy tale and a theatre script of the same fairy tale. They compare them and examine elements and their structures. In their own script they use the structure correctly. They focus on subordinate

clauses and direct speech. Students revise and practise subordinates (dass) and spelling rules for "tz", "z" & "ck" "k" & "s" "ß".


Meine Welt und Ich

Students learn to introduce themselves, to talk about family and friends and their own

environment. They continue to build up vocabulary. They use simple sentence structures and the conjugation of the first and

second person singular.

Schule und Freizeit

Students learn vocabulary and articles, personal pronouns, possessive pronouns regarding

the topic school, school rooms, furniture and school materials. They focus on simple sentence structure, verb endings and correct conjugation and the accusative. They use basic

prepositions defining a place: an, in, über, unter, in, auf,

hinter, zwischen.

Kleidung

Students practise simple sentence structure with basic adjectives, declination of

adjectives and the accusative case in a sentence. They build up their vocabulary.

Essen & Ernährung

Students learn vocabulary

regarding food and food items. They focus on the accusative

case in simple sentences,

responding to guided questions and reasoning with "denn".

Recycling

Students focus on writing simple sentences using the

present tense. They practise regular verbs conjugated

correctly, spelling patterns

ie/ei. They practise understanding questions and

finding information and contextual cues to gain

meaning.

Freizeit

Students increase their vocabulary regarding leisure time activities and hobbies.

They use subordinate clauses with weil, verb forms in the present tense. They practise describing personal likes and

dislikes.

Restaurant

Students increase their word bank on the topic of going to a restaurant. They write their own dialogues using polite phrases for and vocabulary needed for invitations and

reservations at a restaurant (Darf ich..., Könnten Sie..., Ich möchte..., Ich hätte gern...).

Ist mein Essen gesund?

Students build up their vocabulary. They practise text comprehension and production

and shopping dialogues. Students read non-fiction texts, increase their range of vocabulary and build questions and answers. They practise their viewing skills, create a voice over

(report, documentation) and express their own opinion.

Heimat: Was bedeutet Heimat für mich? Students talk about "home" and what it means for them. They focus on reflexive verbs, e.g. "ich erinnere mich", personal pronouns, and subordinate clauses with connectives, eg."

weil, denn, deshalb, etc.". They write profiles of people and pay attention to the correct personal and possessive pronouns and verb forms in the present and present perfect tense.

Wie drücken sich Autoren in Geschichten (Buch, Theater, Film) aus? Students revise and learn about elements and structure within narrative writing. They read parts of a fiction book and analyze their content. With the help of reading

workshop strategies, they define character traits.


Phases of Language Development

Students' language development is described on a continuum of four phases within the four

strands of language learning:

- Listening

- Speaking

- Reading

- Writing


Within these phases, outcomes define the individual skills and conceptual understandings

mastered by students at this level.

Since students enter a phase of language development at different times and at different grade

and age levels, one cannot assume that a student is automatically working within the same

phase in all strands at the same time.

For further information, please contact the Primary German Department.

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