Developing

Characteristics 

• Possess intermediate level verbal language skills 

• Can hold a basic conversation using everyday social language 

• Academic language development still requires 

• Developed mastery of some essential academic vocabulary, but have yet to develop independence using more complex  academic language

Noticeable Signs of Progress

Students are able to

• follow multistep directions with ease 

• participate in more complex academic conversations

•  develop writing using complex sentence structures, precise academic vocabulary and varied word choice