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Apply basic understanding of how ideas, events, or reasons are linked throughout a text using a select set of everyday connecting words or phrases (e.g., first/next, at the beginning) to comprehending texts and writing basic texts.

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Apply growing understanding of how ideas, events, or reasons are linked throughout a text using a variety of connecting words or phrases (e.g., for example, in the first place, as a result, on the other hand) to comprehending texts and writing texts with increasing cohesion.

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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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Combine clauses in an increasing 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 to study for Monday’s exam) or to make a concession (e.g., She studied all night even though she wasn’t feeling well).

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Use an expanded set of general academic words (e.g., cycle, alternative, indicate, process, emphasize, illustrate), domain-specific words (e.g., scene, soliloquy, sonnet, friction, monarchy, fraction), synonyms, antonyms, and figurative language to create precision and shades of meaning while speaking and writing.

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Use a select number of general academic words (e.g., cycle, alternative) and domain-specific words (e.g., scene, chapter, paragraph, cell) to create some precision while speaking and writing.

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Use a growing set of academic words (e.g., cycle, alternative, indicate, process), domain-specific words (e.g., scene, soliloquy, sonnet, friction, monarchy, fraction), synonyms, and antonyms to create precision and shades of meaning while speaking and writing.

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Use knowledge of morphology to appropriately select affixes in a variety of ways to manipulate language (e.g., changing destroy → destruction, probably → probability, reluctant → reluctantly).

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Use knowledge of morphology to appropriately select affixes in basic ways (e.g., She likes X. He walked to school).