By the end of level III, students who are making adequate progress in Spanish are able to:

Listening:

• Comprehend short passages in Spanish narrated by peers or teacher
• Comprehend short conversations between peers and teacher

Speaking:

• Initiate and sustain a conversation in Spanish with peers, teacher, or native speaker
• Ask and respond to questions appropriately
• Select and use appropriate vocabulary for a wide range of topics with some errors
• Select and use appropriate verb forms in past, present and future tenses with some errors

Reading:

• Comprehend short authentic reading passages when topic is familiar
• Comprehend some authentic literature modified for intermediate level
• Use cognates, context and visual clues to decipher meaning in more difficult reading passages

Writing:

• Organize and write short letters, reports, narratives, summaries, poems (100 words+)
• Select and use appropriate vocabulary (with some errors) for a wide range of topics
• Select and use appropriate verb forms (with some errors) in past, present and future tenses

Culture:

• Exhibit a basic knowledge of where Spanish is spoken
• Exhibit some knowledge of Hispanic culture (art, music, literature)
• Exhibit an understanding of different Hispanic traditions
• Recognize the connection between language and culture
• Draw comparisons between different societies/cultures