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Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.8.8.Em

Grade: 8
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: B. Interpretive
Proficiency Level: Emerging
Content Strand: Analyzing language choices

Standard:
Explain how phrasing or different common words with similar meanings (e.g., choosing to use the word persistent versus the term hard worker) produce different effects on the audience.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.8.3.Em

Grade: 8
Critical Principle: Part II: Learning About How English Works
Cluster: B. Expanding and Enriching Ideas
Proficiency Level: Emerging
Content Strand: Using verbs and verb phrases

Standard:
Use a variety of verbs in different tenses (e.g., past, present, future, simple, progressive) appropriate to the text type and discipline (e.g., simple past and past progressive for recounting an experience) on familiar topics.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.8.4.Em

Grade: 8
Critical Principle: Part II: Learning About How English Works
Cluster: B. Expanding and Enriching Ideas
Proficiency Level: Emerging
Content Strand: Using nouns and noun phrases

Standard:
Expand noun phrases in basic ways (e.g., adding a sensory adjective to a noun) in order to enrich the meaning of sentences and add details about ideas, people, things, and so on.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.8.5.Em

Grade: 8
Critical Principle: Part II: Learning About How English Works
Cluster: B. Expanding and Enriching Ideas
Proficiency Level: Emerging
Content Strand: Modifying to add details

Standard:
Expand sentences with simple adverbials (e.g., adverbs, adverb phrases, prepositional phrases) to provide details (e.g., time, manner, place, cause) about a familiar activity or process.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.9–10.5.Em

Grade Range: 9–10
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: B. Interpretive
Proficiency Level: Emerging
Content Strand: Listening actively

Standard:
Demonstrate comprehension of oral presentations and discussions on familiar social and academic topics by asking and answering questions, with prompting and substantial support.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.9–10.6a.Em

Grade Range: 9–10
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: B. Interpretive
Proficiency Level: Emerging
Content Strand: Reading/viewing closely

Standard:
Explain ideas, phenomena, processes, and text relationships (e.g., compare/contrast, cause/effect, evidence-based argument) based on close reading of a variety of grade-appropriate texts, presented in various print and multimedia formats, using short sentences and a select set of general academic and domain-specific words.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.9–10.6b.Em

Grade Range: 9–10
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: B. Interpretive
Proficiency Level: Emerging
Content Strand: Reading/viewing closely

Standard:
Explain inferences and conclusions drawn from close reading of grade-appropriate texts and viewing of multimedia using familiar verbs (e.g., seems that).

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.9–10.6c.Em

Grade Range: 9–10
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: B. Interpretive
Proficiency Level: Emerging
Content Strand: Reading/viewing closely

Standard:
Use knowledge of morphology (e.g., common prefixes and suffixes), context, references materials, and visual cues to determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words on familiar topics.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.9–10.7.Em

Grade Range: 9–10
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: B. Interpretive
Proficiency Level: Emerging
Content Strand: Evaluating language choices

Standard:
Explain how successfully writers and speakers structure texts and use language (e.g., specific word or phrasing choices) to persuade the reader (e.g., by providing evidence to support claims or connecting points in an argument) or create other specific effects, with substantial support.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.9–10.8.Em

Grade Range: 9–10
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: B. Interpretive
Proficiency Level: Emerging
Content Strand: Analyzing language choices

Standard:
Explain how a writer’s or speaker’s choice of phrasing or specific words (e.g., describing a character or action as aggressive versus bold) produces nuances and different effects on the audience.

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