Kansas Education Resource Center

 

Grade  :  Advanced
Content Area  :  ESOL, Approved 2003  :  English to Speakers of Other Languages, Approved 2003

1 Listening
The student listens to spoken English to develop communicative competence in social and academic language use.
1.1 The student uses English to process and construct meaning.
1.1.2 The student follows complex multi-step directions.
1.1.3 The student identifies the segments of spoken words.
1.1.7 The student recognizes the differences of intonation with information questions, exclamations, commands, and statements.
1.1.8 The student demonstrates ability to correct language by recognizing subtle errors in forms and structures.
1.1.9 The student identifies the main idea of a long grade-appropriate passage.
1.1.10 The student makes inferences and draws conclusions from long grade-appropriate passages.
1.1.11 The student identifies key details from long grade-appropriate passages.

 

 

 

 

2 Speaking
The student speaks English in socially and academically appropriate ways.
2.1 The student uses English to convey meaning in spoken form.
2.1.1 The student uses appropriate voice tone and register based on purpose, audience, and subject matter.
2.1.2 The student responds to needs by asking higher-level questions (inferential) appropriate to the situation.
2.1.3 The studnet negotiates and initiates social conversations by questioning and soliciting information.
2.1.4 The student uses correct grammatical forms, approximating native speakers of the same age.
2.1.5 The student retells stories in greater detail including characters, setting, plot.
2.1.6 The student responds to questions using well-developed sentences or phrases.
2.1.7 The student tells a complete story about a picture or sequence of pictures.

 

 

 

 

3 Reading
The student reads a variety of texts in English to achieve academic success in the content areas.
3.1 The student uses word analysis strategies to decode accurately.
3.1.2 The student applies knowledge of word structure to identify advanced words.
3.1.3 The student idenfities, segments, and combines syllables within multi-syllabic words.
3.1.7 The student demonstrates understanding of prefixes, suffixes, and roots (e.g., anti-, fore-, -tion, -ous, employ, view).
3.1.9 The student recognizes words such as compound words, base words, and inflections (e.g., steamboat, forget, wealth, -en, -ier, -iest).
3.2 The student uses vocabulary skills to develop fluency.
3.2.1 The student demonstrates comprehension of advanced vocabulary in context.
3.2.2 The student identifies advanced sight words.
3.2.3 The student identifies the correct usage from multiple-meanings words.
3.2.4 The student identifies difficult synonyms and antonyms.
3.2.5 The student identifies and understands idioms and figures of speech in written text.
3.2.6 The student identifies and understands analogies in written text.
3.3 The student uses comprehension skills to acquire knowledge.
3.3.1 The student analyzes structures of text for chronological ordering.
3.3.2 The student uses prior knowledge to anticipate meaning and make sense of text across grade levels.
3.3.3 The student paraphrases and summarizes text to recall, inform, or organize ideas.
3.3.4 The student responds to stories by answering questions using key ideas, factual information, and details with well developed sentences.
3.3.5 The student understands and follows complex multiple-step written directions.
3.3.6 The student uses appropriate resources (e.g., dictionary, glossary, thesaurus, computer) to define the meaning of unfamliar words.
3.3.7 The student identifies the main idea of a long, grade-appropriate passage.
3.3.8 The student identifies and uses text features such as table of contents, index, and glossary to locate and organize information.
3.3.9 The student identifies and analyzes story, plot, setting, character, point of view, problem and resolution.
3.3.10 The student draws inferences and conclusions from a long, grade-appropriate passages.
3.3.11 The student monitors own reading and self-corrects.
3.3.12 The student distinguishes between fiction and non-ficition.
3.3.13 The student identifies different literary forms.
3.3.14 The student identifies purposes for reading (e.g., to find out, to understand, to interpret, to enjoy, to solve problems).
3.3.15 The student identifies how style, tone, and mood contribute to the effect of the text.
3.3.16 The student distinguishes fact and opinion in various texts.
3.3.17 The student identifies varied reading sources such as diaries, journals, textbooks, newspapers, letters, and electronic texts.

 

 

 

 

4 Writing
The student writes narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive text in English to achieve academic success in the content areas.
4.1 The student uses ideas and content in writing.
4.1.1 The student writes a paragraph with clear beginning, middle, and end with details to support the main idea - related to a prompt.
4.1.2 The student writes compositions which contain elements including setting, sequence of events and character.
4.2 The student uses organization in writing.
4.2.1 The student clarifies and classifies information.
4.2.2 The student uses sequence and transitional words correctly (e.g., therefore, however, previously).
4.2.3 The student writes compositions which include introductory, supporting, and concluding paragraphs.
4.2.4 The student writes using a variety of text structures (e.g., compare/contrast, descriptive, cause-effect, and problem solution).
4.3 The student uses voice in writing.
4.3.1 The student writes with the ability to reflect personal experience.
4.3.2 The student uses personal expression, which might include humor, and contains evidence of originaliy and liveliness.
4.3.3 The student applies use of voice that is appropriate to purpose and audience.
4.4 The student uses word choice in writing.
4.4.1 The student uses common nouns.
4.4.2 The student uses decriptive words and phrases including adverbs, possessive adjectives, comparative/superlatives (e.g., big, bigger, biggest, and modifiers; e.g., much, more, less, few).
4.4.3 The student uses a greater variety of prepositions in phrases (e.g., around the school).
4.4.4 The student uses synonymous verb forms (e.g., yell/scream, perform/act).
4.4.5 The student uses complex synonyms and antonyms 9e.g., cramped, spacious).
4.4.6 The student uses all pronouns forms (e.g., demonstrative, relative).
4.4.7 The student uses definite and indefinite articles.
4.4.8 The student uses regular and irregular plurals correctly.
4.4.9 The student uses prefixes and suffixes correctly.
4.5 The student uses sentence fluency in writing.
4.5.1 The student writes complete compound and/or complex sentences in correct word order.
4.5.2 The student writes complex and/or compound sentences using two conjunctions and/or relative pronouns.
4.5.3 The student uses correct subject/verb agreement with varied tenses.
4.5.4 The student uses all tenses.
4.6 The student uses conventions in writing.
4.6.4 The student uses commas in all instances, correct ending punctuation, apostrophes in possessives and contractions and quotation marks.
4.6.6 The student uses appropriate paragraph format (indentation and alignment).
4.6.7 The student spells most words correctly.
4.7 The student uses the writing process.
4.7.1 The student uses all steps of the writing process, including independent revising and editing.