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=How do you already use the Target Language (Portuguese) in your classroom?=


 * Small lessons (1-2 per week), daily songs
 * Poetry, songs, dance
 * 10-15 minute basic Portuguese language lessons
 * When students want to know how to say things in Portuguese, they ask
 * Greet students from time to time
 * I teach Portuguese at Jorge de Sena School (evening classes)
 * My students create dialogues, perform short skits, apply learned vocabulary through class activities and projects including videos (ie: cooking show, weather report, etc.)
 * Speaking, singing, discussion
 * During the time that students are coming to the carpet
 * Read alouds, cultural activities (dance, poetry)
 * I only speak the language in the classroom (singing & reading)

=What Target Language resources do you have available to you?=


 * Books, music, poems, online resources, worksheets that I create
 * Textbooks, my family members and friends
 * Dictionary, Thesaurus, internet, family members who speak Portuguese
 * Computer, Textbooks, dictionaries, story books
 * Textbooks, library (school), websites, colleagues
 * Instituto Camoes (online), textbooks, YouTube, literature books
 * Songs (lyrics & music), textbooks, internet, dictionaries
 * Books, music, plays, poems, realia, food, fellow teachers, online resources
 * Songs/lyrics, books/plays, internet, games
 * Limited for middle school
 * CDs, online resources, books, plays, songs books
 * online resources

=In which curriculum area do you believe you could embed the use of Target Language and how?=


 * ELA & Science because of the Latin cognates (eg: sol, terra, etc.)
 * Reading/Writing
 * Reading, History (Cultural days, Christmas around the world, Fables)
 * Reading
 * ELA (Songs), Reading (vocabulary), Math (numbers), Science (body, plants)
 * Math (numbers), Science (body parts)
 * Reading?
 * I teach Portuguese, so all content is possible
 * Reading (literature, reading comprehension), Math (numbers), Art, History, Language Arts
 * Portuguese could be used when teaching numbers or math
 * Language Arts (roots, prefixes/suffixes, cognates, gender), Cultural comparisons (Portuguese speaking countries and US)

=What is your goal/objective related to embedding the Target Language in your teaching?=


 * My goal is for students to leave the classroom understanding the language and to be able to speak some of the language
 * Making it effective, fun and practical
 * To be more consistent with sticking to __daily__ instruction
 * Use it more throughout the day
 * Better understanding of students
 * Better and different teaching styles and activities
 * Making it fun and informative
 * Making students want to learn more about it
 * Have students learn to speak Portuguese and understand the culture
 * I would love to have my students enjoy the use of another language
 * To have students understand the importance of knowing a second language