Developing

Can Do Descriptors

• decode and comprehend high-interest, low readability texts 

• Provide expanded sentences in oral interaction or written paragraphs

• Speak or write with minimal phonological, syntactic or semantic errors that do not impede the overall meaning of the communication when presented with oral or written connected discourse with sensory, graphic or interactive support 

• Sequence information that is visually supported 

• Compare and contrast ideas, people, and places 

• Produce short expository writing with increasing detail

• Begin to use more complex sentence frames by adding original ideas and words

• Express ideas orally with emerging academic vocabulary

• Retell events in sequence and begin to self-correct