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Carmel Central School District

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Elementary Teacher Resources

For Elementary Teachers

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English Proficiency Levels

  • An Entering student can:

    • Listening:
      • Point to stated pictures, words, phrases
      • Follow one-step oral direction
      • Match oral statements to objects, figures or illustrations
    • Speaking:
      • Name objects, people, pictures
      • Answer WH - (who, what, when, where, which questions)
    • Reading:
      • Match icons and symbols to words, phrases, or environmental print
      • Identify concepts about print and text features
    • Writing:
      • Label objects, pictures, diagrams
      • Draw in response to a prompt
      • Produce icons, symbols, words, phrases to convey message

  • An Emerging student can:

    • Listening:
      • Sort pictures, objects according to oral instructions
      • Follow two-step oral directions
      • Match information from oral descriptions to objects,illustrations
    • Speaking:
      • Ask WH- questions
      • Describe pictures, events, objects, people
      • Restate facts
    • Reading:
      • Locate and classify information
      • Identify facts and explicit messages
      • Select language patterns associated with facts
    • Writing:
      • Make lists
      • Produce drawings, phrases, short sentences, notes
      • Give information requested from oral or written directions

  • A Transitioning student can:

    • Listening:
      • Locate, select, order information from oral descriptors
      • Follow multi-step oral directions
      • Categorize or sequence oral information using pictures, objects
    • Speaking:
      • Formulate hypotheses, make predictions
      • Describe processes, procedures
      • Retell stories or events
    • Reading:
      • Sequence pictures, events, processes
      • Identify main ideas
      • Use context clues to determine meaning or words
    • Writing:
      • Produce bare-bones expository or narrative texts
      • Compare/contrast information
      • Describe events, people, processes, procedures

  • An Expanding student can:

    • Listening:
      • Compare/contrast functions, relationships from oral information
      • Analyze and apply oral information
      • Identify cause and effect from oral discourse
    • Speaking:
      • Discuss stories, issues, concepts
      • Give speeches, oral reports
      • Offer creative solutions to issues, problems
    • Reading:
      • Interpret information or data
      • Find details that support main ideas
      • Identify word families, figures of speech
    • Writing:
      • Summarize information from graphics or notes
      • Edit and revise writing
      • Create original ideas or detailed responses

  • A Commanding student can:

    • Listening:
      • Draw conclusions from oral information
      • Construct models based on oral discourse
      • Make connections from oral discourse
    • Speaking:
      • Engage in debates
      • Explain phenomena, give examples and justify responses
      • Express and defend points of view
    • Reading:
      • Conduct research to glean information from multiple sources
      • Draw conclusions from explicit and implicit text
    • Writing:
      • Apply information to new contexts
      • React to multiple genres and discourses
      • Author multiple forms/genres of writing