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An ELL can construct meaning from oral presentations and literary and informational text through grade-appropriate listening, reading, and viewing.
Generate resourcewith prompting and support (including context and visual aids), use a very limited set of strategies from read-alouds, picture books, and oral presentations. to:
Generate resourceuse an emerging set of strategies from read-alouds, simple written texts, and oral presentations.to:
Generate resourceuse a developing set of strategies from read-aloud texts, simple written texts, and oral presentations to:
Generate resourceuse an increasing range of strategies from read-alouds, written texts, and oral presentations to:
Generate resourceuse a wide range of strategies from read-alouds, written texts, and oral presentations. to:
Generate resourceAn ELL can make accurate use of standard English to communicate in grade-appropriate speech and writing.
Generate resourcerecognize and use frequently occurring nouns, verbs, prepositions, and conjunctions (e.g., and, but, or)
Generate resourceAn ELL can participate in grade-appropriate oral and written exchanges of information, ideas, and analyses, responding to peer, audience, or reader comments and questions.
Generate resourceparticipate in short discussions, conversations, and short written exchanges
Generate resourceAn ELL can speak and write about gradeappropriate complex literary and informational texts and topics.
Generate resourceusing simple sentences and drawings or illustrations, about a variety of texts, topics, experiences, or events.
Generate resourceincluding a few descriptive details, about a variety of texts, topics, experiences, or events.
Generate resourceAn ELL can construct grade-appropriate oral and written claims and support them with reasoning and evidence.
Generate resourceAn ELL can conduct research and evaluate and communicate findings to answer questions or solve problems.
Generate resourcewith prompting and support from adults, from provided sources showing limited control
Generate resourcewith prompting and support from adults, from provided sources showing emerging control.
Generate resourcewith prompting and support from adults, from provided sources showing developing control.
Generate resourcewith prompting and support from adults, from provided sources showing increasingly independent control.
Generate resourcewith prompting and support from adults, from provided sources showing independent control.
Generate resourceidentify one or two reasons an author or a speaker gives to support the main point.
Generate resourceidentify appropriate reasons an author or a speaker gives to support the main point.
Generate resourceAn ELL can adapt language choices to purpose, task, and audience when speaking and writing.
Generate resourceshow a developing awareness of the difference between appropriate language for the playground and language for the classroom.
Generate resourceshow awareness of differences between informal “playground speech” and language appropriate to the classroom
Generate resourceshift appropriately between informal “playground speech” and language appropriate to the classroom most of the time
Generate resourceAn ELL can . . . determine the meaning of words and phrases in oral presentations and literary and informational text.
Generate resourcewith prompting and support (including context and visual aids), in simple oral presentations and read-alouds about familiar topics, experiences, or events.
Generate resourcewith prompting and support (including context and visual aids), in simple oral presentations and read-alouds about familiar topics, experiences, or events.
Generate resourceanswer and sometimes ask simple questions to help determine the meaning of frequently occurring words and phrases
Generate resourceusing sentence-level context and visual aids, in oral presentations, read-alouds, and simple texts about familiar topics, experiences, or events.
Generate resourceanswer and sometimes ask questions to help determine the meaning of some less frequently occurring words and phrases
Generate resourceusing sentence context, visual aids, and some knowledge of frequently occurring root words and their inflectional forms, in oral presentations and written texts about a variety of topics, experiences, or events.
Generate resourceanswer and ask questions to help determine the meaning of less common words, phrases, and simple idiomatic expressions
Generate resourceusing context, some visual aids, and knowledge of morphology (e.g., simple inflectional endings such as -ed, -ing, and some common prefixes), in oral presentations and written texts about a variety of topics, experiences, or events.
Generate resourceanswer and ask questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words, phrases, and idiomatic expressions
Generate resourcewith support (including visual aids and modeled sentences), with emerging control of some frequently occurring linking words.
Generate resourcewith support (including modeled sentences), with developing control of some frequently occurring linking words (e.g., and, so) and temporal words (e.g., first, then).
Generate resourceretell (in speech or writing) a simple sequence of events in the correct order
Generate resourcewith increasingly independent control of some temporal words (e.g., next, after),and some frequently occurring linking words (and, so).
Generate resourceusing temporal words to signal event order and using frequently occurring conjunctions (linking words or phrases).
Generate resourceParticipate in collaborative conversations, following class created discussion guidelines.
Generate resourceAsk and answer questions orally about what a speaker says to gather additional information and clarify understanding.
Generate resourceUse relevant details to express ideas and feelings when orally describing people, places, things, and events.
Generate resourceBlend three to five sounds in one-syllable words (e.g., /s/ /i/ /p/ to sip; /s/ /l/ /i/ /p/ to slip; /s/ /i/ /f/ /t/ to sift; /b/ /l/ /a/ /s/ /t/ to blast).
Generate resourceEncode one-syllable words with consonant clusters and short vowel patterns (e.g., flat, drift, quit, stand, frost, sprint, strap).
Generate resourceEncode one-syllable words with consonant digraphs and short vowel patterns (e.g., with, flash, chick, shaft, song).
Generate resourceEncode one-syllable words with double-letter endings (e.g., fill, pass, buzz).
Generate resourceEncode one-syllable words containing single consonants with multiple spellings for /z/ and /k/ (e.g., is, nose, zip; kite, cat, luck).
Generate resourceEncode one-syllable words with initial or medial VCe patterns (e.g., use, lake, slime, choke, these).
Generate resourceEncode one-syllable words with predictable vowel-r patterns (e.g., shark, fork, her).
Generate resourceEncode one-syllable words with the most common spellings for final long vowel sounds (e.g., say, play, cry, why, tree, snow).
Generate resourceSegment the sounds in one-syllable words (e.g., sip to /s/ /i/ /p/; slip to /s/ /l/ /i/ /p/; sift to /s/ /i/ /f/ /t/; blast to /b/ /l/ /a/ /s/ /t/).
Generate resourceEncode words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
Generate resourceEncode words with inflectional suffixes that do not require a spelling change (e.g., jumps, jumped, jumping).
Generate resourceForm upper and lowercase manuscript letters and numerals correctly with proportion, line awareness, and spacing (between words and letters).
Generate resourceDistinguish between sounds based on place of articulation (where in the mouth it is produced) and manner of articulation (voicing and air flow) (e.g., /p/ vs. /b/; /ch/ vs. /j/).
Generate resourceDecode one-syllable words with consonant clusters and predictable vowel patterns (e.g., blast, spell, dry, flake, star, swerve).
Generate resourceDecode one-syllable words with consonant digraphs (e.g., sh, th, ch, wh, ng, ck) and trigraphs (e.g., tch, dge) with predictable vowel patterns (e.g., shy, chart, shave, thick, white, bring, catch, fudge).
Generate resourceDecode one-syllable words with common vowel teams (e.g., rain, play; seed, beach; high, pie; boat, snow, toe; book; new, moon).
Generate resourceDecode one-syllable words containing multiple sounds of s (e.g., sock, is).
Generate resourceDecode two-syllable base words with grade level letter-sound correspondences (e.g., napkin, cupcake, poodle, super).
Generate resourceUse singular and plural nouns with verbs that agree in basic sentences (e.g., He hops. We hop.).
Generate resourceProduce and expand simple sentences independently, using simple and compound subjects and predicates.
Generate resourceExplain how visual images support a text by clarifying story elements (settings, characters, and events).
Generate resourceIdentify major differences between types of text and text features (e.g., title, author, illustrator, bold font, italics).
Generate resourceIdentify reasons an author provides to support the main points in a text.
Generate resourceIdentify text elements (e.g., title, captions, photographs, diagrams, descriptions) in an informational text.
Generate resourceUse text features (e.g., title, author, illustrator, table of contents, bold font, italics) to locate key facts and information.
Generate resourceExplain how visual images (e.g., charts, graphs, illustrations) support a text by clarifying or providing key details.
Generate resourceRetell (orally or in writing) a text read aloud, including main idea and key details to demonstrate understanding of the central message or topic.
Generate resourceBuild general and academic vocabulary and background knowledge of age and grade-appropriate topics through discussion, reading, and writing.
Generate resourceUse background knowledge and details, including illustrations, charts, and graphs, to make predictions and inferences about what happens in a text.
Generate resourceDemonstrate comprehension of age and grade-appropriate texts by speaking or writing.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in texts.
Generate resourceOrally read texts with accuracy, automaticity, and expression at an appropriate rate to support comprehension, self-correcting as necessary.
Generate resourceDistinguish shades of meaning among adjectives differing in intensity/degree (e.g., scared, afraid, terrified, horrified).
Generate resourceUse base words and their inflectional forms (e.g., look, looks, looking) and common prefixes and suffixes (e.g., re-, pre-, -ful, -less) as clues to meaning.
Generate resourceWrite an opinion piece about a topic or text, including at least one supporting reason.
Generate resourceWrite an informative or explanatory piece about a topic, using facts from a source.
Generate resourceProduce clear and coherent writing, using precise language, relevant details, and grade-appropriate conventions.
Generate resourceParticipate in teacher-led research projects and gather information from experiences and/or provided sources to produce a response.
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