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Use a wide variety of verbs and verb types (e.g., doing, saying, being/having, thinking/feeling) in shared language activites guided by the teacher and independently.

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Use frequently used verbs (e.g., go, eat, run) and verb types (e.g., doing, saying, being/having, thinking/feeling) in shared language activities guided by the teacher and sometimes independently.

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Use a wide variety of verb tenses appropriate for the text type and discipline to convey time (e.g., simple present for a science description, simple future to predict) in shared language activities guided by the teacher and independently.

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Use simple verb tenses appropriate for the text type and discipline to convey time (e.g., simple past for recounting an experience) in shared language activities guided by the teacher 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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Distinguish how multiple different words with similar meaning (e.g., pleased versus happy versus ecstatic, heard or knew versus believed) produce shades of meaning and different effects on the audience.

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Distinguish how two different frequently used words (e.g., describing a character as happy versus angry) produce a different effect on the audience.

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Use a variety of verb types (e.g., doing, saying, being/having, thinking/feeling) independently.

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Use frequently used verbs (e.g., walk, run) and verb types (e.g., doing, saying, being/having, and thinking/feeling) in shared language activities guided by the teacher and sometimes independently.