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oral presentations and read-alouds about familiar topics, experiences, or events.","rsFoundations":{"online":"In most online Course lessons, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.","teachers":"In most Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners will be able to meet this standard.","workbook":"In most Workbook and K-2 Workbook activities, learners will be able to meet this standard.","supplemental":"In all Supplemental Reading activities, learners will be able to meet this standard."}},{"name":"EL.G1.S8-Level 3","descriptor":"An ELL can, useing sentence-level context and visual aids,\n\n• answer and sometimes ask questions to help determine the meaning of some less frequently occurring words and phrases \n\nin oral presentations, read-alouds, and simple texts about familiar topics, experiences, or events.","rsFoundations":{"online":"In most online Course lessons, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.","teachers":"In some Teacher's Guide 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some visual aids, and knowledge of morphology (e.g., simple inflectional endings such as -ed, -ing, and some common prefixes),\n\n• answer and ask questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words, phrases, and idiomatic expressions\n\nin oral presentations and written texts about a variety of topics, experiences, or events.","rsFoundations":{"online":"In some online Course lessons, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.","teachers":"In some Teacher's Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.","workbook":null,"supplemental":"In some Supplemental Reading activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard."}}]},{"name":"Standard 9: By the end of each English language proficiency level, an ELL can create clear and coherent grade-appropriate speech and text.","level3":[{"name":"EL.G1.S9-Level 2","descriptor":"An ELL can, with support (including visual aids and modeled sentences), \n\n• retell an event\n• present simple information\n\nwith emerging control of some frequently occurring linking words.","rsFoundations":{"online":"Many online Course lessons model language structures and vocabulary to provide learners with language to apply this standard.","teachers":"In some Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.","workbook":"In some Workbook and K-2 Workbook activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.","supplemental":"In some Supplemental Reading activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard."}},{"name":"EL.G1.S9-Level 3","descriptor":"An ELL can, with support (including modeled sentences),\n\n• retell (in speech or writing) a simple sequence of events in the correct order\n• present simple information \n\nwith developing control of some frequently occurring linking words (e.g., and, so) and temporal words (e.g., first, then).","rsFoundations":{"online":"Many online Course lessons model language 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with support (including context and visual aids),\n\n• understand and use a small number of frequently occurring nouns and verbs\n• understand and use very simple sentences\n• respond to simple questions.","rsFoundations":{"online":"In all online Course lessons, learners will be able to meet this standard.","teachers":"In most Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners will be able to meet this standard.","workbook":"In most Workbook activities, learners will be able to meet this standard.","supplemental":"In all Supplemental Reading activities, learners will be able to meet this standard."}},{"name":"EL.G1.S10-Level 2","descriptor":"An ELL can, with support (including visual aids and sentences)\n\n• recognize and use frequently occurring nouns, verbs, prepositions, and conjunctions (e.g., and, but, or)\n• produce simple sentences.","rsFoundations":{"online":"In most online Course lessons, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.","teachers":"In most 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recount a complex and detailed sequence of events or steps in a process, with an effective sequential or chronological order\n• introduce and effectively develop an informational topic with facts, details, and evidence\n• use complex and varied transitions to link the major sections of text and speech and to clarify relationships among events and ideas\n• provide a concluding section or statement.","rsFoundations":{"online":null,"teachers":null,"workbook":null,"supplemental":null}}]},{"name":"Standard 10: By the end of each English language proficiency level, an ELL can make accurate use of standard English to communicate in grade-appropriate speech and writing.","level3":[{"name":"EL.G9-12.S10-Level 1","descriptor":"An ELL can, with support (including modeled sentences),\n\n• recognize and use a small number of frequently occurring nouns, noun phrases, verbs, conjunctions, and prepositions\n• understand and respond to simple questions.","rsFoundations":{"online":"In all online Course 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