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Level 1 Entering
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Level 2 Emerging
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Level 3 Developing
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Level 4 Expanding
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Level 5 Bridging
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• Match oral language to classroom and everyday objects
• Point to stated pictures in context
• Respond nonverbally to oral commands or statements
(e.g., through physical movement)
• Find familiar people and places named orally
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• Sort pictures or objects according to oral instructions
• Match pictures, objects or movements to oral descriptions
• Follow one-step oral directions (e.g., “stand up”; “sit down”)
• Identify simple patterns described orally
• Respond with gestures to songs, chants, or stories modeled by teachers
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• Follow two-step oral directions, one step at a time
• Draw pictures in response to oral instructions
• Respond non-verbally to confirm or deny facts (e.g., thumbs up, thumbs
down)
• Act out songs and stories using gestures
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• Find pictures that match oral descriptions
• Follow oral directions and
compare with visual or non-verbal models (e.g., “Draw a circle under the
line.”)
• Distinguish between what
happens first and next in oral activities or readings
• Role play in response to stories read aloud
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• Order pictures of events
according to sequential
language
• Arrange objects or pictures according to descriptive oral discourse
• Identify pictures/realia
associated with grade-level academic concepts from oral descriptions
• Make patterns from real objects or pictures based on detailed oral
descriptions
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• Identify
people or objects in illustrated short stories
• Repeat
words, simple
phrases
• Answer
yes/no questions about personal information
• Name
classroom and
everyday
objects
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• Restate
some facts from illustrated short stories
• Describe
pictures, classroom objects or familiar people using simple phrases
• Answer
questions with one or two words (e.g., “Where is Sonia?”)
• Complete
phrases in rhymes, songs, and chants
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• Retell
short narrative stories through pictures
• Repeat
sentences from
rhymes and
patterned stories
• Make
predictions (e.g.
“What will
happen next?”)
• Answer explicit
questions from stories read aloud
(e.g., who,
what, or where)
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• Retell
narrative stories through pictures with emerging detail
• Sing
repetitive songs and chants independently
• Compare
attributes of real
objects
(e.g., size, shape, color)
• Indicate
spatial relations of real-life objects using phrases or short sentences
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• Tell
original stories with
emerging
detail
• Explain
situations
(e.g.,
involving feelings)
• Offer
personal opinions
• Express
likes, dislikes, or
preferences
with reasons
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• Match icons and symbols to corresponding pictures
• Identify name in print
• Find matching words or pictures
• Find labeled real-life
classroom objects
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• Match examples of the
same form of print
• Distinguish between same and different forms of print
(e.g., single letters and
symbols)
• Demonstrate concepts of print (e.g., left to right
movement, beginning/
end, or top/bottom of page)
• Match labeled pictures to those in illustrated scenes
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• Use pictures to identify
words
• Classify visuals according
to labels or icons (e.g.,
animals v. plants)
• Demonstrate concepts of
print (e.g., title, author,
illustrator)
• Sort labeled pictures by
attribute (e.g., number,
initial sound)
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• Identify some high frequency words in context
• Order a series of labeled
pictures described orally to
tell stories
• Match pictures to phrases/
short sentences
• Classify labeled pictures
by two attributes (e.g., size
and color)
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• Find school-related
vocabulary items
• Differentiate between
letters, words, and
sentences
• String words together to
make short sentences
• Indicate features of words, phrases, or sentences that
are the same and different
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W
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• Draw pictures and scribble
• Circle or underline
pictures, symbols, and
numbers
• Trace figures and letters
• Make symbols, figures or letters from models and realia
(e.g., straws, clay)
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• Connect oral language
to print (e.g., language
experience)
• Reproduce letters, symbols, and numbers from models in
context
• Copy icons of familiar
environmental print
• Draw objects from models and label with letters
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• Communicate using letters, symbols, and numbers in
context
• Make illustrated “notes”
and cards with distinct
letter combinations
• Make connections between speech and writing
• Reproduce familiar words
from labeled models or
illustrations
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• Produce symbols and
strings of letters associated
with pictures
• Draw pictures and use
words to tell a story
• Label familiar people and
objects from models
• Produce familiar
words/phrases from
environmental print and
illustrated text
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• Create content-based
representations through
pictures and words
• Make “story books” with
drawings and words
• Produce words/phrases
independently
• Relate everyday experiences using phrases/short
sentences
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