Emerging

Characteristics 

• Continued English language growth past the newcomers stage 

• Evidence of learning through emerging production skills 

• Varied proficiency levels begin to appear with the four language domains of reading, writing, listening and speaking

Noticeable Signs of Progress 

Students are able to  

• participate in more complex conversations

• progress from single word answers and short phrases to sentence level discourse

• begin attaching adjectives to nouns provide more context and details

• express ideas in writing using short sentences