Expanding

Characteristics 

• Demonstrates an increased independence in all four language domains with increased academic literacy skills

• Comfortably and confidently engage in everyday and academic conversations but with occasional errors that do not impede an understanding of the message 

Noticeable Signs of Progress 

Students are able to 

• demonstrate higher levels of fluency and accuracy in reading and speaking.

• use varied, increasingly grammatically complex sentences in both oral and writen discourse.

• participate in face-to-face oral interactions with increased confidence. 

• use multiple reading strategies independently to tackle grade-level text with minimal scaffolds.

• logically organize more complex writing assignments with few word choice and grammatical errors.