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Part ii: learning About how english works
language Processes
standard Code
PII.8.1
emerging
understanding text structure
Apply understanding of how different text types are organized to express ideas (e.g., how narratives are organized sequentially) to comprehending texts and to writing brief arguments, informative/ explanatory texts and narratives.
expanding
understanding text structure
Apply understanding
of the organizational features of different
text types (e.g., how narratives are organized
by an event sequence
that unfolds naturally versus how arguments
are organized around reasons and evidence) to comprehending texts and to writing increasingly clear and coherent arguments, informative/explanatory texts and narratives.
bridging
structuring Cohesive texts
understanding text structure
Apply understanding
of the organizational structure of different text types (e.g., how narratives are organized by an event sequence that unfolds naturally versus how arguments are organized around reasons and evidence) to comprehending texts and to writing clear and cohesive arguments, informative/explanatory texts and narratives.
PII.8.2a
understanding cohesion
Apply knowledge of familiar language resources for referring to make texts more cohesive (e.g., how pronouns refer back to nouns in text)
to comprehending and writing brief texts.
understanding cohesion
Apply knowledge of familiar language resources for referring to make texts more cohesive (e.g., how pronouns refer back to nouns in text, how using synonyms helps avoid repetition)
to comprehending and writing texts with increasing cohesion.
understanding cohesion
Apply knowledge of familiar language resources for referring
to make texts more cohesive (e.g., how pronouns, synonyms, or nominalizations are used to refer backward in a text) to comprehending texts and writing cohesive texts.
PII.8.2b
understanding cohesion
Apply basic understanding of how ideas, events,
or reasons are linked throughout a text using everyday connecting words or phrases (e.g.,
at the end, next) to comprehending and writing brief texts.
understanding cohesion
Apply growing understanding of how ideas, events, or reasons are linked throughout
a text using a variety
of connecting words or phrases (e.g., for example, as a result, on the other hand ) to comprehending and writing texts with increasing cohesion.
understanding cohesion
Apply increasing understanding of how ideas, events, or reasons are linked throughout a text using an increasing variety of academic connecting and transitional words or phrases
(e.g., for instance, in addition, consequently)
to comprehending
and writing texts with increasing cohesion.
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