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Adjust language choices according to task (e.g., facilitating a science experiment, providing peer feedback on a writing assignment), purpose, task, and audience.

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Adjust language choices according to social setting (e.g., classroom, break time) and audience (e.g., peers, teacher).

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Plan and deliver longer oral presentations on a variety of topics and content areas, using reasoning and evidence to support ideas, as well as growing understanding of register.

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Plan and deliver brief oral presentations on a variety of topics and content areas.

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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 a reason (e.g., He stayed at home on Sunday because he had an exam on Monday), 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 students worked in groups while their teacher walked around the room).

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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).

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Justify opinions or persuade others by providing detailed and relevant textual evidence or relevant background knowledge, with light support.

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Justify opinions by providing some textual evidence or relevant background knowledge, with substantial support.

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Express attitude and opinions or temper statements with nuanced modal expressions, (e.g., possibly/potentially/absolutely, should/might).

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Express attitude and opinions or temper statements with familiar modal expressions (e.g., can, may).