| California English Language Development Standards |
| Reading |
| By Grade Level |
| 3-5 |
| Reading Comprehension |
| Early Intermediate |
| Comprehension |
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Read and listen to simple stories and demonstrate under-standing by using simple sentences to respond to explicit detailed questions (e.g., ?The bear is brown?).
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Read and orally identify relationships between written text and one?s own experience by using simple sentences.
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Understand and follow simple two-step directions for classroom activities.
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| Intermediate |
| Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text |
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Use detailed sentences to respond orally to comprehension questions about text (e.g., ?The brown bear lives with his family in the forest?).
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Read text and identify features, such as the title, table of contents, chapter headings, diagrams, charts, glossaries, and indexes in written texts.
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Read text and use detailed sentences to identify orally the main ideas and use them to make predictions and support them with details.
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| Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text and Expository Critique |
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Read literature and content area texts and orally identify examples of fact and opinion and cause and effect.
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| Writing |
| By Grade Level |
| 3-5 |
| Strategies and Applications |
| Early Intermediate |
| Organization and Focus |
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Write short narrative stories that include elements of setting and characters.
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| Organization and Focus, Evaluation and Revision |
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Produce independent writing that is under-stood when read but may include inconsistent use of standard grammatical forms.
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| Intermediate |
| Organization and Focus |
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Narrate with some detail a sequence of events.
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Produce independent writing that is understood when read but may include inconsistent use of standard grammatical forms.
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Begin to use a variety of genres in writing (e.g., expository, narrative, poetry).
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Independently create cohesive paragraphs that develop a central idea with consistent use of standard English grammatical forms. (Some rules may not be followed.)
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Use more complex vocabulary and sentences appropriate for language arts and other content areas (e.g., math, science, history?social science).
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Write a letter independently by using detailed sentences.
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