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Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.K.8.Br

Grade: K
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., walk, march, strut, prance) produce shades of meaning and a different effect.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.K.8.Em

Grade: K
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 an action with the verb walk versus run) produce a different effect.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.K.8.Ex

Grade: K
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., describing an action as walk versus march) produce shades of meaning and a different effect.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.K.2.Br

Grade: K
Critical Principle: Part II: Learning About How English Works
Cluster: A. Structuring Cohesive Texts
Proficiency Level: Bridging
Content Strand: Understanding cohesion

Standard:
Apply understanding of how ideas, events, or reasons are linked throughout a text using a variety of connecting words or phrases (e.g., first/second/third, once, at the end) to comprehending texts and composing texts in shared language activities guided by the teacher, with peers, and independently.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.K.2.Em

Grade: K
Critical Principle: Part II: Learning About How English Works
Cluster: A. Structuring Cohesive Texts
Proficiency Level: Emerging
Content Strand: Understanding cohesion

Standard:
Apply basic understanding of how ideas, events, or reasons are linked throughout a text using more everyday connecting words or phrases (e.g., one time, then) to comprehending texts and composing texts in shared language activities guided by the teacher, with peers, and sometimes independently.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.K.2.Ex

Grade: K
Critical Principle: Part II: Learning About How English Works
Cluster: A. Structuring Cohesive Texts
Proficiency Level: Expanding
Content Strand: Understanding cohesion

Standard:
Apply understanding of how ideas, events, or reasons are linked throughout a text using a growing number of connecting words or phrases (e.g., next, after a long time) to comprehending texts and composing texts in shared language activities guided by the teacher, collaboratively with peers, and with increasing independence.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.K.6.Br

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

Standard:
Combine clauses in a wide variety of ways (e.g., rearranging complete simple sentences to form compound sentences) to make connections between and join ideas (e.g., The boy was hungry. The boy ate a sandwich. → The boy was hungry so he ate a sandwich) in shared language activities guided by the teacher and independently.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.K.6.Em

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

Standard:
Combine clauses in a few basic ways to make connections between and join ideas (e.g., creating compound sentences using and, but, so) in shared language activities guided by the teacher and sometimes independently.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PII.K.6.Ex

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

Standard:
Combine clauses in an increasing variety of ways to make connections between and join ideas, for example, to express cause/effect (e.g., She jumped because the dog barked) in shared language activities guided by the teacher and with increasing independence.

Standard Identifier: ELD.PI.1.8.Br

Grade: 1
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., big, large, huge, enormous, gigantic) produce shades of meaning and a different effect on the audience.

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