For Elementary Teachers

An Entering student can:

Listening:

• Point to stated pictures, words, phrases
• Follow one-step oral direction
• Match oral statements to objects, figures or illustrations

Speaking:

• Name objects, people, pictures
• Answer WH - (who, what, when, where, which questions)

Reading:

• Match icons and symbols to words, phrases, or environmental print
• Identify concepts about print and text features

Writing:

• Label objects, pictures, diagrams
• Draw in response to a prompt
• Produce icons, symbols, words, phrases to convey message

An Emerging student can:

Listening:

• Sort pictures, objects according to oral instructions
• Follow two-step oral directions
• Match information from oral descriptions to objects,illustrations

Speaking:

• Ask WH- questions
• Describe pictures, events, objects, people
• Restate facts

Reading:

• Locate and classify information
• Identify facts and explicit messages
• Select language patterns associated with facts

Writing:

• Make lists
• Produce drawings, phrases, short sentences, notes
• Give information requested from oral or written directions

A Transitioning student can:

Listening

• Locate, select, order information from oral descriptors
• Follow multi-step oral directions
• Categorize or sequence oral information using pictures, objects

Speaking:

• Formulate hypotheses, make predictions
• Describe processes, procedures
• Retell stories or events

Reading:

• Sequence pictures, events, processes
• Identify main ideas
• Use context clues to determine meaning or words

Writing:

• Produce bare-bones expository or narrative texts
• Compare/contrast information
• Describe events, people, processes, procedures

An Expanding student can:

Listening

• Compare/contrast functions, relationships from oral information
• Analyze and apply oral information
• Identify cause and effect from oral discourse

Speaking:

• Discuss stories, issues, concepts
• Give speeches, oral reports
• Offer creative solutions to issues, problems

Reading:

• Interpret information or data
• Find details that support main ideas
• Identify word families, figures of speech

Writing:

• Summarize information from graphics or notes
• Edit and revise writing
• Create original ideas or detailed responses

A Commanding student can:

Listening

• Draw conclusions from oral information
• Construct models based on oral discourse
• Make connections from oral discourse

Speaking:

• Engage in debates
• Explain phenomena, give examples and justify responses
• Express and defend points of view

Reading:

• Conduct research to glean information from multiple sources
• Draw conclusions from explicit and implicit text

Writing:

• Apply information to new contexts
• React to multiple genres and discourses
• Author multiple forms/genres of writing

Cause and Effect

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