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• Point to stated pictures, words, or phrases
• Follow one-step oral directions (e.g., physically or
through drawings)
• Identify objects, figures, people from oral statements
or questions (e.g., “Which one is a rock?”)
• Match classroom oral language to daily routines
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• Categorize content-based pictures or objects from oral
descriptions
• Arrange pictures or objects per oral information
• Follow two-step oral directions
• Draw in response to oral descriptions
• Evaluate oral information (e.g., about lunch options)
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• Follow multi-step oral directions
• Identify illustrated main ideas from paragraph-level
oral discourse
• Match literal meanings of oral descriptions or oral
reading to illustrations
• Sequence pictures from oral stories, processes, or
procedures
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• Interpret oral information and apply to new situations
• Identify illustrated main ideas and supporting details
from oral discourse
• Infer from and act on oral information
• Role play the work of authors, mathematicians,
scientists, historians from oral readings, videos, or multi-media
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• Carry out oral instructions containing grade-level,
content-based language
• Construct models or use manipulatives to problem solve
based on oral discourse
• Distinguish between literal and figurative language in oral
discourse
• Form opinions of people, places, or ideas from oral
scenarios
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• Express basic needs or conditions
• Name pre-taught objects, people, diagrams, or pictures
• Recite words or phrases from pictures of everyday objects and
oral modeling
• Answer yes/no and choice questions
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• Ask simple, everyday questions (e.g., “Who is absent?”)
• Restate content-based facts
• Describe pictures, events, objects, or people using phrases or
short sentences
• Share basic social information with peers
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• Answer simple content based questions
• Re/tell short stories or events
• Make predictions or hypotheses from discourse
• Offer solutions to social conflict
• Present content-based information
• Engage in problem-solving
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• Answer opinion questions with supporting details
• Discuss stories, issues, and concepts
• Give content-based oral reports
• Offer creative solutions to issues/problems
• Compare/contrast content-based functions and
relationships
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• Justify/defend opinions or explanations with evidence
• Give content-based presentations using technical
vocabulary
• Sequence steps in grade level problem-solving
• Explain in detail results of inquiry (e.g., scientific
experiments)
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• Match icons or diagrams with words/concepts
• Identify cognates from first language, as applicable
• Make sound/ symbol/word relations
• Match illustrated words/phrases in differing contexts
(e.g., on the board, in a book)
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• Identify facts and explicit messages from illustrated text
• Find changes to root words in context
• Identify elements of story grammar (e.g., characters, setting)
• Follow visually supported written directions (e.g.,
“Draw a star in the sky.”)
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• Interpret information or data from charts and graphs
• Identify main ideas and some details
• Sequence events in stories or content-based processes
• Use context clues and illustrations to determine
meaning of words/phrases
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• Classify features of various genres of text (e.g., “and
they lived happily ever after”—fairy tales)
• Match graphic organizers to different texts (e.g.,
compare/contrast with Venn diagram)
• Find details that support main ideas
• Differentiate between fact and opinion in narrative and
expository text
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• Summarize information from multiple related sources
• Answer analytical questions about grade-level text
• Identify, explain, and give examples of figures of
speech
• Draw conclusions from explicit and implicit text at or
near grade level
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• Label objects, pictures, or diagrams from word/phrase
banks
• Communicate ideas by drawing
• Copy words, phrases, and short sentences
• Answer oral questions with
single words
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• Make lists from labels or with peers
• Complete/produce sentences from word/ phrase banks or
walls
• Fill in graphic organizers, charts, and tables
• Make comparisons using real-life or visually supported
materials
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• Produce simple expository or narrative text
• String related sentences together
• Compare/contrast content based information
• Describe events, people, processes, procedures
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• Take notes using graphic organizers
• Summarize content-based information
• Author multiple forms of writing (e.g., expository,
narrative, persuasive) from models
• Explain strategies or use of information in solving
problems
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• Produce extended responses of original text approaching grade
level
• Apply content-based information to new contexts
• Connect or integrate personal experiences with
literature/content
• Create grade-level stories or reports
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