(Grades Three-Five) World Languages for grades three through five, based on Indiana’s Academic Standards for World Languages, focuses on the student and his or her family, taking into account the expanding awareness of students at this grade level. The principal objectives for these grades are continued development of interpersonal communication skills, as well as development of interpretive skills involving word recognition and reading. Emphasis is also given to developing student awareness of relationships between the target language and cultures, as well as reinforcing concepts from other content areas. The Indiana Academic World Languages Standards in grades three through five, are supported by the instructional techniques of FLES, the Foreign Language Elementary School model (FLES). FLES builds communicative proficiency.
