English Language Development

As discussed in chapter 2 in this ELA/ELD Framework, text complexity is determined on the basis of quantitative and qualitative ...

Using Comprehension Strategies. Teaching children to use reading comprehension strategies to help them understand and retain wha ...

Questioning is one of the important comprehension strategies identified by the panel, and teachers plan questions that support s ...

learned to describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly (SL.1.4). Th ...

Comparing formal and informal uses of English (in grade two) (L.2.3a) and recognizing and observing differences between convent ...

Vocabulary Instruction Research indicates that there are large vocabulary differences among English users by the end of grade tw ...

different situations (e.g., Last year, I was devastated when my pet died.). They also structure frequent conversations in which ...

Figure 4.6. Sample Academic Language from The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter’s Wonder by Mark Cassino with Jon Nelson Gene ...

Effective Expression The development of effective communication skills is one of the hallmarks of the CA CCSS for ELA/Literacy a ...

Skill in writing is developed through excellent instruction and plentiful opportunities to write for meaningful purposes daily. ...

All of Part II focuses on enacting understandings of how written (and spoken) language works: how different text types are organ ...

to effectively engage in collaborative conversations about academic content and build their content understandings. Discussions ...

time to organize their ideas and prepare the language they will use in their presentations. Both of these tasks (organizing thou ...

Language conventions related to grammar, capitalization, and punctuation learned during the second- and third-grade span are dis ...

Figure 4.8. Stages of Spelling Development (SP- Spelling; DC- Decoding; V- Vocabulary) Stage* Abbreviated Description Examples T ...

Content Knowledge Content knowledge (other than ELA/literacy and ELD) is largely the purview of other frameworks published by th ...

Engaging with Informational Text During the elementary years, about half of the texts children engage with (including those read ...

Knowing and using captions, bold print, subheadings, and indexes and, in grade three, using search tools (e.g., key words, side ...

Figure 4.10. Texts to Build Knowledge on Topics in Science Grade Two – Rock Cycle Grade Three – Solar System Rocks: Hard, Soft, ...

and discuss the topic of interest, as well as the integration of the language arts with content learning. Furthermore, engaging ...