ELL09 Essential Skills
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ELL Essential Skills for Level 9-12
Reading I
Students will:
- Use phonetic, semantic, and contextual clues to get meaning from text, with a focus on prefixes, suffixes, and cognates.
- Use high frequency vocabulary to aid comprehension.
- Identify and use reading strategies to increase comprehensibility (i.e. predict, infer, conclude).
- Locate, select, and utilize relevant information from a variety of texts.
- Identify main idea, details, and sequence.
- Demonstrate comprehension of key content vocabulary.
Reading II
Students will:
- Use phonetic, semantic, and contextual clues to get meaning from text, with a focus on prefixes, suffixes, and cognates.
- Identify story elements.
- Initiate and maintain a conversation.
- Utilize various reading strategies to access near grade level text (prediction, inference, identifying key vocabulary and main idea, drawing conclusions, and self-monitoring).
- Comprehend and use figurative language.
Writing I
Students will:
- Communicate ideas using complete, simple sentences with attention to subject verb agreement and pronoun (subject and possessive) use.
- Ask questions to obtain and clarify information.
- Respond to questions in phrases and sentences.
- Provide basic personal information in the narrative form in writing and speech, as well as to complete various forms.
- Define and recognize the eight parts of speech.
- Write a paragraph with a topic sentence and supporting details using various graphic organizers for planning using content area concepts and vocabulary.
- Utilize the computer to create basic documents demonstrating learned knowledge.
Writing II
Student will:
- Use conventional spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
- Use varies sentence patterns with subject verb agreement.
- Respond to more complex questions.
- Write and speak in a variety of genres (including personal narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive).
- Communicate (in writing and speech) content area ideas employing: defining, summarizing, explaining, comparing/contrasting, identifying cause and effect, forming, stating, and supporting an opinion, evaluating.
- Competently utilize the computer to produce evidence of learning.
