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Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.1.8.Em

Grade: 1
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: B. Interpretive
Proficiency Level: Emerging
Content Strand: Analyzing language choices

Standard:
Distinguish how two different frequently used words (e.g., large versus small) produce a different effect on the audience.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.1.8.Ex

Grade: 1
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: B. Interpretive
Proficiency Level: Expanding
Content Strand: Analyzing language choices

Standard:
Distinguish how two different words with similar meaning (e.g., large versus enormous) produce shades of meaning and a different effect on the audience.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.1.4.Br

Grade: 1
Critical Principle: Part II: Learning About How English Works
Cluster: B. Expanding and Enriching Ideas
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Using nouns and noun phrases

Standard:
Expand noun phrases in a wide variety of ways (e.g., adding a variety of adjectives to noun phrases) in order to enrich the meaning of phrases/ sentences and add details about ideas, people, things, and the like, in shared language activities guided by the teacher and independently.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.1.4.Em

Grade: 1
Critical Principle: Part II: Learning About How English Works
Cluster: B. Expanding and Enriching Ideas
Proficiency Level: Emerging
Content Strand: Using nouns and noun phrases

Standard:
Expand noun phrases in simple ways (e.g., adding a familiar adjective to describe a noun) in order to enrich the meaning of sentences and add details about ideas, people, things, and the like, in shared language activities guided by the teacher and sometimes independently.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.1.4.Ex

Grade: 1
Critical Principle: Part II: Learning About How English Works
Cluster: B. Expanding and Enriching Ideas
Proficiency Level: Expanding
Content Strand: Using nouns and noun phrases

Standard:
Expand noun phrases in a growing number of ways (e.g., adding a newly learned adjective to a noun) to enrich the meaning of sentences and add details about ideas, people, things, and the like, in shared language activities guided by the teacher and with increasing independence.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.1.7.Br

Grade: 1
Critical Principle: Part II: Learning About How English Works
Cluster: C. Connecting and Condensing Ideas
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Condensing ideas

Standard:
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.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.1.7.Em

Grade: 1
Critical Principle: Part II: Learning About How English Works
Cluster: C. Connecting and Condensing Ideas
Proficiency Level: Emerging
Content Strand: Condensing ideas

Standard:
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.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.1.7.Ex

Grade: 1
Critical Principle: Part II: Learning About How English Works
Cluster: C. Connecting and Condensing Ideas
Proficiency Level: Expanding
Content Strand: Condensing ideas

Standard:
Condense clauses in a growing number of ways (e.g., through embedded clauses as in, She’s a doctor. She saved the animals. → She’s the doctor who saved the animals) to create precise and detailed sentences in shared language activities guided by the teacher and with increasing independence.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.2.8.Br

Grade: 2
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: B. Interpretive
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Analyzing language choices

Standard:
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.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.2.8.Em

Grade: 2
Critical Principle: Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Cluster: B. Interpretive
Proficiency Level: Emerging
Content Strand: Analyzing language choices

Standard:
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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