ELD PREREQUISITE STANDARDS 

BY ENGLISH PROFICIENCY LEVEL

Grades 3-5

LISTENING and SPEAKING

Beginning

• Respond to simple directions and questions using physical and other means of non-verbal communication. 
• Answer simple questions with one or two word responses.

Early Intermediate

• Orally identify the main points of simple stories.

Intermediate

• Retell stories using expanded vocabulary, descriptive words, and paraphrasing.

Early Advanced

• Retell stories in greater detail including characters, setting, and plot.

Advanced

• Listen to stories and subject area topics, and identify the main points using supporting details.

 

READING - Word Analysis

Beginning

• Recognize sound/symbol relationships in own writing.

Early Intermediate

• Recognize common English morphemes in phrases and simple sentences (e.g., basic syllabication rules and phonics).

Intermediate

• Use common English morphemes in oral and silent reading.

Early Advanced

• Apply knowledge of common English morphemes in oral and silent reading to derive meaning from literature and texts in content areas.

Advanced

• Apply knowledge of word relationships, such as roots and affixes, to derive meaning from literature and texts in content areas.

READING - Fluency and Systematic Vocabulary Development

Beginning

• Retell simple stories using drawings, words, or phrases.

Early Intermediate

• Read own writing of narrative and expository text aloud with some pacing, intonation, and expression.

Intermediate

• Use content-related vocabulary in discussions and reading. 
• Read grade appropriate narrative and expository texts aloud with appropriate pacing, intonation, and expression.

Early Advanced

• Read increasingly complex narrative and expository texts aloud with appropriate pacing, intonation and expression.

Advanced

• Apply knowledge of academic and social vocabulary to achieve independent reading.

READING - Reading Comprehension

Beginning

• Understand and follow simple one-step directions for classroom or work-related activities. 
• Respond orally to stories read to them by answering factual comprehension questions using one- or two-word responses (e.g. "brown bear"). 
• Identify the main idea in a story read aloud using key words and/or phrases.

Early Intermediate

• Understand and follow simple two-step directions of classroom or work-related activities. 
• Read and listen to simple stories and demonstrate understanding by using simple sentences to respond to explicit detailed questions (e.g., "The bear is brown."). 
• Orally identify examples of fact/opinion in familiar texts read to them. 
• Read and orally identify the main ideas and use them to draw inferences about written text using simple sentences.

Intermediate

• Understand and follow some multi-step directions for classroom-related activities. 
• Read and use detailed sentences to orally identify main ideas and use them to make predictions and provide supporting details for predictions made.

Early Advanced

• Describe main ideas and supporting details of a text. 
• Use resources in the text (such as ideas, illustrations, titles, etc.) to draw conclusions and make inferences. 
• Identify some significant structural (organizational) patterns in text, such as sequence/chronological order, and cause/effect.

Advanced

• Describe main ideas and supporting details, including supporting evidence. 
• Use resources in the text (such as ideas, illustrations, titles, etc.) to draw inferences, conclusions, and to make generalizations. 
• Identify significant structural (organizational) patterns in text, such as compare/contrast, sequence/chronological order, and cause/effect.

READING - Literary Response and Analysis

Beginning

• Orally identify different characters and settings in simple literary texts using words or phrases.

Early Intermediate

• Orally describe what a character is like by what he/she does in a selection, using simple sentences.

Intermediate

• Use expanded vocabulary and descriptive words and paraphrasing for oral and written responses to texts.

Early Advanced

• Recognize and describe themes stated directly in a text.

Advanced

• Recognize and describe themes stated directly or implied in literary texts.

K-2 WRITING - Conventions

Beginning

• Use capital letters when writing own name and at the beginning of a sentence.

Early Intermediate

• Use capital letters to begin a sentence and for proper names. 
• Write simple, complete sentences. 
• Edit writing for basic conventions of writing (e.g., punctuation, capitalization, and spelling with some corrections).

Intermediate

• Identify and correctly use contractions, such as isn’t, aren’t in writing. 
• Produce independent writing that may include some inconsistent use of capitalization, punctuation, and correct spelling. 
• Use standard English word order that may include inconsistent grammar forms (e.g., subject/verb agreement).

Early Advanced

• Produce independent writing with consistent use of capitalization, punctuation, and correct spelling. 
• Edit writing for basic conventions of writing, such as punctuation, capitalization, spelling and word order.

Advanced

• Use complete sentences and correct word order. 
• Edit writing for punctuation, capitalization, spelling.

 

K-2 WRITING: Strategies and Applications

Beginning

• Use storyboards, drawings, and/or other graphics to write short narratives.

Early Intermediate 

• Given a model, write a friendly letter. 
• Write an increasing number of words and simple sentences appropriate for language arts and other content areas (e.g. math, science, history/social science). 
• Write short narrative stories that include elements of setting and character

Intermediate

• Independently write a letter using detailed sentences. 
• Use more complex vocabulary and sentences appropriate for language arts and other content areas. 
• Independently create cohesive paragraphs that develop a central idea.

Early Advanced

• Independently write a detailed formal letter. 
• Write simple responses to stories read. 
• Write multi-paragraph narratives and expository compositions appropriate for content areas with consistent use of standard grammatical forms.

Advanced

• Write short narratives that include complex vocabulary and sentences appropriate for language arts and other content areas. 
• Write multi-paragraph narrative and expository compositions appropriate for content areas using standard grammatical forms.