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Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.3.7.Ex

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

Standard:
Describe the specific language writers or speakers use to present or support an idea (e.g., the specific vocabulary or phrasing used to provide evidence), with prompting and moderate support.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.3.8.Ex

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

Standard:
Distinguish how different words with similar meanings (e.g., describing a character as happy versus ecstatic) produce shades of meaning and different effects on the audience.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.3.1.Ex

Grade: 3
Critical Principle: Part II: Learning About How English Works
Cluster: A. Structuring Cohesive Texts
Proficiency Level: Expanding
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) to comprehending texts and writing texts with increasing cohesion.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.3.2a.Ex

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

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

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.3.2b.Ex

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

Standard:
Apply growing understanding of how ideas, events, or reasons are linked throughout a text using a variety of connecting words or phrases (e.g., at the beginning/ end, first/next) to comprehending texts and writing texts with increasing cohesion.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.4.5.Ex

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

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

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.4.6a.Ex

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

Standard:
Describe ideas, phenomena (e.g., animal migration), and text elements (main idea, central message, and the like) in greater detail based on close reading of a variety of grade-level texts, with moderate support.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.4.6b.Ex

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

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

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.4.7.Ex

Grade: 4
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: B. Interpretive
Proficiency Level: Expanding
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 prompting and moderate support.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.4.8.Ex

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

Standard:
Distinguish how different words with similar meanings (e.g., describing a character as smart versus an expert) and figurative language (e.g., as big as a whale) produce shades of meaning and different effects on the audience.

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