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Standard:
Demonstrate understanding of words, phrases (signs and fingerspelling in ASL), and simple sentences on very familiar common daily topics. Use orthography, phonology, ASL parameters, and very basic sentence-level elements (morphology and/or syntax).

Goal:
Students use the following structures to communicate: sounds, parameters, and writing systems (Novice); basic word and sentence formation (Intermediate); structures for major time frames and text structures for paragraph-level discourse (Advanced); all structures and text structures for extended discourse (Superior). Students use the following language text types to communicate: learned words, signs and fingerspelling, and phrases (Novice); sentences and strings of sentences (Intermediate); paragraphs and strings of paragraphs (Advanced); or coherent, cohesive multi-paragraph texts (Superior).

Standard:
Experience, recognize, and explore the relationships among typical age-appropriate target cultures’ products, practices, and perspectives in culturally appropriate ways in very familiar common daily settings.

Goal:
To interact with cultural competence, students demonstrate understanding and use the target language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationships among the products cultures produce, the practices cultures manifest, and the perspectives that underlie them.

Standard:
Identify cultural borrowings.

Goal:
To interact with intercultural competence, students demonstrate understanding and use the target language to investigate how cultures influence each other over time.

Standard:
Acquire, exchange, and present information primarily in the target language about very familiar common daily elements of life and age-appropriate academic content across disciplines.

Goal:
To function in real-world situations, academic, and career-related settings, students build, reinforce, and expand their knowledge of other disciplines using the target language to develop critical thinking and solve problems.

Standard:
Acquire, exchange, and present information in the target language on topics related to self and the immediate environment, and age-appropriate academic content across disciplines.

Goal:
To function in real-world situations, academic, and career-related settings, students build, reinforce, and expand their knowledge of other disciplines using the target language to develop critical thinking and solve problems.

Standard:
State reasons for cultural borrowings.

Goal:
To interact with intercultural competence, students demonstrate understanding and use the target language to investigate how cultures influence each other over time.

Standard:
Experience, recognize, and explore the relationships among typical age-appropriate target cultures’ products, practices, and perspectives in culturally appropriate ways in transactional situations and some informal settings.

Goal:
To interact with cultural competence, students demonstrate understanding and use the target language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationships among the products cultures produce, the practices cultures manifest, and the perspectives that underlie them.

Standard:
Demonstrate understanding of transactional and informal topics related to self and the immediate environment. Use basic sentence-level elements (morphology and syntax).

Goal:
Students use the following structures to communicate: sounds, parameters, and writing systems (Novice); basic word and sentence formation (Intermediate); structures for major time frames and text structures for paragraph-level discourse (Advanced); all structures and text structures for extended discourse (Superior). Students use the following language text types to communicate: learned words, signs and fingerspelling, and phrases (Novice); sentences and strings of sentences (Intermediate); paragraphs and strings of paragraphs (Advanced); or coherent, cohesive multi-paragraph texts (Superior).

Standard:
Demonstrate understanding of topics of general public interest. Use knowledge of sentence-level elements (morphology and syntax in major time frames) and paragraph-level discourse (text structure).

Goal:
Students use the following structures to communicate: sounds, parameters, and writing systems (Novice); basic word and sentence formation (Intermediate); structures for major time frames and text structures for paragraph-level discourse (Advanced); all structures and text structures for extended discourse (Superior). Students use the following language text types to communicate: learned words, signs and fingerspelling, and phrases (Novice); sentences and strings of sentences (Intermediate); paragraphs and strings of paragraphs (Advanced); or coherent, cohesive multi-paragraph texts (Superior).

Standard:
Participate, use, describe, and discuss the relationships among target cultures’ products, practices, and perspectives in culturally appropriate ways in most informal and formal settings.

Goal:
To interact with cultural competence, students demonstrate understanding and use the target language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationships among the products cultures produce, the practices cultures manifest, and the perspectives that underlie them.