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Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.3.7.Br

Grade: 3
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: B. Interpretive
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Evaluating language choices

Standard:
Describe how well writers or speakers use specific language resources to support an opinion or present an idea (e.g., whether the vocabulary or phrasing used to provide evidence is strong enough), with light support.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.3.8.Br

Grade: 3
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: B. Interpretive
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Analyzing language choices

Standard:
Distinguish how multiple different words with similar meanings (e.g., pleased versus happy versus ecstatic, heard versus knew versus believed) produce shades of meaning and different effects on the audience.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.3.1.Br

Grade: 3
Critical Principle: Part II: Learning About How English Works
Cluster: A. Structuring Cohesive Texts
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Understanding text structure

Standard:
Apply understanding of how different text types are organized to express ideas (e.g., how a story is organized sequentially with predictable stages versus how opinion/arguments are structured logically, grouping related ideas) to comprehending texts and writing cohesive texts.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.3.2a.Br

Grade: 3
Critical Principle: Part II: Learning About How English Works
Cluster: A. Structuring Cohesive Texts
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Understanding cohesion

Standard:
Apply increasing understanding of language resources that refer the reader back or forward in text (e.g., how pronouns or synonyms refer back to nouns in text) to comprehending and writing cohesive texts.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.3.2b.Br

Grade: 3
Critical Principle: Part II: Learning About How English Works
Cluster: A. Structuring Cohesive Texts
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Understanding cohesion

Standard:
Apply increasing understanding of how ideas, events, or reasons are linked throughout a text using an increasing variety of connecting and transitional words or phrases (e.g., for example, afterward, first/next/last) to comprehending texts and writing cohesive texts.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.4.5.Br

Grade: 4
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: B. Interpretive
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Listening actively

Standard:
Demonstrate active listening of read-alouds and oral presentations by asking and answering detailed questions, with minimal prompting and light support.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.4.6a.Br

Grade: 4
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: B. Interpretive
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Reading/viewing closely

Standard:
Describe ideas, phenomena (e.g., pollination), and text elements (main idea, character traits, event sequence, and the like) in detail based on close reading of a variety of grade-level texts, with light support.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.4.6b.Br

Grade: 4
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: B. Interpretive
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Reading/viewing closely

Standard:
Use knowledge of morphology (e.g., affixes, roots, and base words), linguistic context to determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words on familiar and new topics.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.4.7.Br

Grade: 4
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: B. Interpretive
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Evaluating language choices

Standard:
Describe how well writers and speakers use specific language resources to support an opinion or present an idea (e.g., the clarity or appealing nature of language used to present evidence), with prompting and light support.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.4.8.Br

Grade: 4
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: B. Interpretive
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Analyzing language choices

Standard:
Analyzing language choices Distinguish how different words with related meanings (e.g., fun versus entertaining versus thrilling, possibly versus certainly) and figurative language produce shades of meaning and different effects on the audience.

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