Bridging
Can Do Descriptors
Understand main ideas, supporting details, speaker's purpose, and other nuanced aspects of oral language
Comprehend multistep directions
Respond to both everyday and academic conversations of increasing length and complexity, including contextualized and decontextualized information
Attempt to make sense of unfamiliar colloquial expressions, cultural references, idioms or proverbs, yet may encounter challenges with such figurative language.
Communicate fluently and spontaneously with minimal hesitation, self-correction or rephrasing
Figure out the meaning of new words and complex sentences using context clues and prior knowledge or other linguistic resources
Comprehend all main ideas and supporting details in increasingly more complex academic text
Write for personal and academic purposes with increasing fluency and length