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Can Do Descriptors

• Understand main ideas and most supporting details 

• Understand and respond to both everyday and academic conversations 

• Speak comfortably about familiar and academic topics in small or large group settings 

• Utilize a variety of words and idiomatic expressions provide details about a topic

• Read for enjoyment and academic purposes across genres with increased stamina, speed and fluency

• Comprehend all main ideas and most supporting details in more complex academic text 

• Determine meaning for most new academic grade-level vocabulary words using context clues and prior knowledge 

• Compose extended academic writing with increased focus and clarity