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Use a wide variety of general academic and domain-specific words, synonyms, antonyms, and non-literal language (e.g., The dog was as big as a house) to create an effect, precision, and shades of meaning while speaking and writing.

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Use a select number of general academic and domain-specific words to add detail (e.g., adding the word scrumptious to describe a favorite food, using the word thorax to refer to insect anatomy) while speaking and writing.

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Apply understanding of how ideas, events, or reasons are linked throughout a text using a variety of connecting words or phrases (e.g., for example, after that, first/ second/third) to comprehending texts and writing texts in shared language activities guided by the teacher and independently.

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Apply basic understanding of how ideas, events, or reasons are linked throughout a text using more everyday connecting words or phrases (e.g., one day, after, then) to comprehending texts and writing texts in shared language activities guided by the teacher, with peers, and sometimes independently.

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Condense clauses in a variety of ways (e.g., through embedded clauses and other condensing, for example, through embedded clauses as in She’s a doctor. She’s amazing. She saved the animals. → She’s the amazing doctor who saved the animals) to create precise and detailed sentences in shared language activities guided by the teacher and independently.

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Condense clauses in simple ways (e.g., changing: I like blue. I like red. I like purple → I like blue, red, and purple) to create precise and detailed sentences in shared language activities guided by the teacher and sometimes independently.

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

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Retell texts and recount experiences by using key words.

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Use a wide variety of general academic and domain-specific words, synonyms, antonyms, and non-literal language (e.g., He was as quick as a cricket) to create an effect, precision, and shades of meaning while speaking and writing.

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Use a select number of general academic and domain-specific words to add detail (e.g., adding the word generous to describe a character, using the word lava to explain volcanic eruptions) while speaking and writing.