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Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding. a. Activate prior knowledge related to the information and events in texts. CA b. Use illustrations and context to make predictions about text. CA

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With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).

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Participate, use, describe, and discuss the relationships among target cultures’ products, practices, and perspectives in culturally appropriate ways in most informal and formal settings.

Goal:
To interact with cultural competence, students demonstrate understanding and use the target language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationships among the products cultures produce, the practices cultures manifest, and the perspectives that underlie them.

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Experience, recognize, and explore the relationships among typical age-appropriate target cultures’ products, practices, and perspectives in culturally appropriate ways in transactional situations and some informal settings.

Goal:
To interact with cultural competence, students demonstrate understanding and use the target language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationships among the products cultures produce, the practices cultures manifest, and the perspectives that underlie them.

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Experience, recognize, and explore the relationships among typical age-appropriate target cultures’ products, practices, and perspectives in culturally appropriate ways in very familiar common daily settings.

Goal:
To interact with cultural competence, students demonstrate understanding and use the target language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationships among the products cultures produce, the practices cultures manifest, and the perspectives that underlie them.

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Research, analyze, discuss, and hypothesize about the relationships among target cultures’ wide ranges of products, practices, and perspectives—concrete and abstract, general and specialized, and academic and professional—from different viewpoints in culturally appropriate ways.

Goal:
To interact with cultural competence, students demonstrate understanding and use the target language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationships among the products cultures produce, the practices cultures manifest, and the perspectives that underlie them.

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Demonstrate understanding of the main idea and some details on some informal topics related to self and the immediate environment. Demonstrate understanding of sentences and strings of sentences in authentic texts that are spoken, written, or signed.

Goal:
Students demonstrate understanding, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics, from authentic texts. They use technology, when appropriate, to access information.

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Participate in real-world, spoken, written, or signed conversations related to self and the immediate environment. Create sentences and strings of sentences to ask and answer a variety of questions in transactional and some informal settings.

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Students interact and negotiate meaning in a variety of real-world settings and for multiple purposes, in spoken, signed, or written conversations. They use technology as appropriate, in order to collaborate, to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.

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Make simple presentations in culturally appropriate ways on transactional and informal topics related to self and the immediate environment. Use sentences and strings of sentences through spoken, written, or signed language using the most suitable media and technologies to present and publish.

Goal:
Students present information, concepts, and ideas on a variety of topics and for multiple purposes, in culturally appropriate ways. They adapt to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers, using the most suitable media and technologies to present and publish.

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Demonstrate understanding of transactional and informal topics related to self and the immediate environment. Use basic sentence-level elements (morphology and syntax).

Goal:
Students use the following structures to communicate: sounds, parameters, and writing systems (Novice); basic word and sentence formation (Intermediate); structures for major time frames and text structures for paragraph-level discourse (Advanced); all structures and text structures for extended discourse (Superior). Students use the following language text types to communicate: learned words, signs and fingerspelling, and phrases (Novice); sentences and strings of sentences (Intermediate); paragraphs and strings of paragraphs (Advanced); or coherent, cohesive multi-paragraph texts (Superior).