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• Follow one-step oral commands/instructions
• Match social language to visual/graphic displays
• Identify objects, people, or places from oral statements/
questions using gestures (e.g., pointing)
• Match instructional language with visual representation
(e.g.,
“Use a sharpened pencil.”)
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• Follow multi-step oral commands/instructions
• Classify/sort content-related visuals per oral descriptions
• Sequence visuals per oral directions
• Identify information on charts or tables based on oral
statements
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• Categorize content based examples from oral directions
• Match main ideas of familiar text read aloud to visuals
• Use learning strategies described orally
• Identify everyday examples of content-based concepts described
orally
• Associate oral language with different time frames (e.g.,
past, present, future)
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• Identify main ideas and details of oral discourse
• Complete content-related tasks or assignments based on
oral discourse
• Apply learning strategies to new situations
• Role play, dramatize, or re-enact scenarios from oral
reading
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• Use oral information to accomplish grade-level tasks
• Evaluate intent of speech and act accordingly
• Make inferences from grade-level text read aloud
• Discriminate among multiple genres read orally
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• Answer yes/no and choice questions
• Begin to use general and high frequency vocabulary
• Repeat words, short phrases, memorized chunks
• Answer select WH questions (e.g., “who,”“what,” “when,” “where”)
within
context of lessons or personal experiences
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• Convey content through high frequency words/phrases
• State big/main ideas of classroom conversation
• Describe situations from modeled sentences
• Describe routines and every day events
• Express everyday needs and wants
• Communicate in social situations
• Make requests
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• Begin to express time through multiple tenses
• Retell/rephrase ideas from speech
• Give brief oral content based presentations
• State opinions
• Connect ideas in discourse
using transitions (e.g., “but,” “then”)
• Use different registers inside and outside of class
• State big/main ideas with some supporting details
• Ask for clarification (e.g., self-monitor)
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• Paraphrase and summarize ideas presented orally
• Defend a point of view
• Explain outcomes
• Explain and compare content-based concepts
• Connect ideas with supporting details/evidence
• Substantiate opinions with reasons and evidence
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• Defend a point of view and give reasons
• Use and explain metaphors and similes
• Communicate with fluency in social and academic contexts
• Negotiate meaning in group discussions
• Discuss and give examples of abstract, content-based ideas
(e.g.,
democracy, justice)
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• Associate letters with sounds and objects
• Match content–related objects/pictures to words
• Identify common symbols, signs, and words
• Recognize concepts of print
• Find single word responses to WH- questions (e.g., “who,” “what,” “when,” “where”)
related
to illustrated text
• Use picture dictionaries/illustrated glossaries
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• Sequence illustrated text of fictional and non-fictional
events
• Locate main ideas in a series of simple sentences
• Find information from text structure (e.g.,
titles, graphs, glossary)
• Follow text read aloud (e.g., tapes, teacher,
paired-readings)
• Sort/group pre-taught words/phrases
• Use pre-taught vocabulary (e.g., word banks) to
complete simple sentences
• Use L1 to support L2 (e.g., cognates)
• Use bilingual dictionaries/glossaries
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• Identify topic sentences, main ideas, and details in
paragraphs
• Identify multiple meanings of words in context (e.g.,
“cell,” “table”)
• Use context clues
• Make predictions based on illustrated text
• Identify frequently used affixes and root words to
make/extract meaning (e.g., “un-,” “re-,” “-ed”)
• Differentiate between fact and opinion
• Answer questions about explicit information in texts
• Use English
dictionaries and glossaries
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• Order paragraphs
• Identify summaries of passages
• Identify figurative language (e.g., “dark as night”)
• Interpret adapted classics or modified text
• Match cause to effect
• Identify specific language of different genres and
informational texts
• Use an array of strategies (e.g., skim and scan for
information)
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• Differentiate and apply multiple meanings of words/phrases
• Apply strategies to new situations
• Infer meaning from modified grade-level text
• Critique material and support argument
• Sort grade-level text by genre
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• Draw content-related pictures
• Produce high frequency words
• Label pictures and graphs
• Create vocabulary /concept cards
• Generate lists from pretaught words /phrases and word
banks (e.g., create menu from list of food groups)
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• Complete pattern sentences
• Extend “sentence starters” with original ideas
• Connect simple sentences
• Complete graphic organizers/forms with personal information
• Respond to yes/no, choice, and some WH- questions
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• Produce short paragraphs with main ideas and some
details (e.g., column notes)
• Create compound sentences (e.g., with conjunctions)
• Explain steps in problem solving
• Compare/contrast information, events, characters
• Give opinions, preferences, and reactions along with reasons
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• Create multiple-paragraph
essays
• Justify ideas
• Produce content-related reports
• Use details/examples to support ideas
• Use transition words to create cohesive passages
• Compose intro/body/ conclusion
• Paraphrase or summarize text
• Take notes (e.g., for research)
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• Create expository text to explain graphs/charts
• Produce research reports using multiple sources/citations
• Begin using analogies
• Critique literary essays or articles
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