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Paraphrase texts and recount experiences using increasingly detailed complete sentences and key words from notes or graphic organizers.

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Paraphrase texts and recount experiences using key words from notes or graphic organizers.

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Use a wide variety of general academic and domain-specific words, synonyms, antonyms, and non-literal language 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 dangerous to describe a place, using the word habitat when describing animal behavior) while speaking and writing.

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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.

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Apply basic 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 basic texts.

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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.

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Apply basic understanding of how ideas, events, or reasons are linked throughout a text using everyday connecting words or phrases (e.g., then, next) to comprehending texts and writing basic texts.

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Combine clauses in a wide variety of ways (e.g., creating compound and complex sentences) to make connections between and join ideas, for example, to express cause/effect (e.g., The deer ran because the mountain lion approached them), to make a concession (e.g., She studied all night even though she wasn’t feeling well), or to link two ideas that happen at the same time (e.g., The cubs played while their mother hunted).

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Combine clauses in a few basic ways to make connections between and join ideas (e.g., creating compound sentences using and, but, so).