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Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.K.10.Br

Grade: K
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: C. Productive
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Composing/Writing

Standard:
Draw, dictate, and write to compose longer literary texts (e.g., story) and informational texts (e.g., an information report on dogs), collaboratively with an adult (e.g., joint construction of texts), with peers, and independently using appropriate text organization.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.K.11.Br

Grade: K
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: C. Productive
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Supporting opinions

Standard:
Supporting opinions Offer opinions and provide good reasons with detailed textual evidence or relevant background knowledge (e.g., specific examples from text or knowledge of content).

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.K.12a.Br

Grade: K
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: C. Productive
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Selecting language resources

Standard:
Retell texts and recount experiences using increasingly detailed complete sentences and key words.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.K.12b.Br

Grade: K
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: C. Productive
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Selecting language resources

Standard:
Use a wide variety of general academic and domain-specific words, synonyms, antonyms, and language to create an effect (e.g., using the word suddenly to signal a change) or to create shades of meaning (e.g., The cat’s fur was as white as snow) while speaking and composing.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.K.5.Br

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

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

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.K.6.Br

Grade: K
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., insect metamorphosis), and text elements (e.g., major events, characters, setting) using key details based on understanding of a variety of grade-level texts and viewing of multimedia, with light support.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.K.7.Br

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

Standard:
Describe the language an author uses to present or support an idea (e.g., the vocabulary used to describe people and places), with prompting and light support.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.K.8.Br

Grade: K
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 meaning (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) produce shades of meaning and a different effect.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.K.9.Br

Grade: K
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: C. Productive
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Presenting

Standard:
Plan and deliver longer oral presentations on a variety of topics in a variety of content areas (e.g., retelling a story, describing a science experiment).

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.K.6.Br

Grade: K
Critical Principle: Part II: Learning About How English Works
Cluster: C. Connecting and Condensing Ideas
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Connecting ideas

Standard:
Combine clauses in a wide variety of ways (e.g., rearranging complete simple sentences to form compound sentences) to make connections between and join ideas (e.g., The boy was hungry. The boy ate a sandwich. → The boy was hungry so he ate a sandwich) in shared language activities guided by the teacher and independently.

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