Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

Comprehend Text

Make Connections

Interpret Text

Make Meanings

Speak to Others

Write to Others

Present Orally

Present in Writing

Comprehend written, audio, audiovisual, and visual text (text, pictures, and numbers).

Make interdisciplinary and cultural connections.

Interpret the content of written or audio text (words).

Make meanings from words and expressions.

Communicate interpersonally by speaking with others

Communicate interpersonally by writing to others.

Communicate through spoken presentations.

Communicate through written presentations.

Describe the literal meaning of the text.

Describe data.

Make cultural connections.

Make connections in and across disciplines.

Interpret the distinguishing features of a text.

Interpret the meaning of a text.

Determine the meaning of familiar and unfamiliar words.

Use words appropriate for a given context.

Understand and apply appropriate communication strategies in interpersonal speaking.

Understand and apply appropriate and varied syntactical expressions in interpersonal speaking.

Understand and apply appropriate communication strategies in interpersonal writing.

Understand and apply appropriate and varied syntactical expressions in interpersonal writing

Plan and research an issue or topic for presentational speaking.

Use appropriate vocal and visual strategies to communicate an idea in presentational speaking.

Use appropriate language and vocabulary for the intended audience in presentational speaking.

Express a perspective with details and examples to illustrate an opinion or idea in presentational speaking.

Plan and research an issue or topic for presentational writing. presentational writing.

Use appropriate writing strategies to communicate an idea in presentational writing.

Understand and apply appropriate and varied syntactical expressions in presentational writing.

Express a perspective with details and examples to illustrate an opinion or idea in written presentations.

Identify the main idea.

Identify supporting/ relevant details.

Retell or summarize information in narrative form.

Use sources to enhance comprehension.

Identify and describe patterns and trends in data.

Describe data from a table, chart, graph, map, or infographic.

Identify and/or describe content and connections among cultural topics.

Explain how data from a graph or table illustrate cultural topics or phenomena.

Explain how information from a text connects or relates to the target cultural topics or phenomena.

Infer cultural information from a text.

Identify and/or describe content and connections among interdisciplinary topics.

Explain how data from a graph or table illustrate interdisciplinary topics or phenomena.

Explain how information from a text connects or relates to interdisciplinary topics or phenomena.

Infer interdisciplinary information from a text.

Identify the intended audience.

Identify the purpose.

Identify and/or describe the point(s) of view, perspective(s), tone, or attitude.

Identify organizing and/or rhetorical structures and/or strategies.

Identify and/or describe similarities and/or differences among different types of texts.

Infer implied meanings through context.

Determine the meaning of a variety of vocabulary. (not assessed on Exam)

Deduce the meaning of unfamiliar words or expressions.

Use a variety of vocabulary in written and spoken communication.

Explain and use idiomatic and culturally authentic expressions.

Initiate, maintain, and close spoken exchanges.

Comprehend an interlocutor's message in spoken exchanges.

Provide and obtain relevant information in spoken exchanges.

Use appropriate register and greeting for the intended target culture audience in spoken exchanges.

Use pronunciation that is comprehensible when interacting with speakers of the target language in spoken exchanges.

Use effective intonation patterns, pacing, and delivery when interacting with speakers of the target language in spoken exchanges.

Use communication strategies, such as circumlocution, requesting clarification, asking for repetition, and paraphrasing to maintain spoken exchanges.

Use a variety of grammar and syntax in spoken exchanges.

Use transitional expressions and cohesive devices in spoken exchanges.

Comprehend and produce simple, compound, and complex sentences in a variety of time frames in spoken exchanges.

Monitor language production; recognize errors and attempt self-correction in spoken exchanges.

Initiate, maintain, and close written exchanges.

Provide and obtain relevant information in written exchanges.

Use a variety of grammar and syntax in written exchanges.

Use register appropriate for the intended target culture audience in written exchanges.

Use communication strategies such as circumlocution, requesting clarification, and paraphrasing to maintain written exchanges.

Use transitional expressions and cohesive devices to create paragraph-length discourse in written exchanges.

Comprehend and produce simple, compound, and complex sentences in a variety of time frames in written exchanges.

Use standard conventions of the written language (e.g., capitalization, orthography, accents, punctuation) in written exchanges.

Monitor language production; recognize errors and attempt self-correction in written exchanges. (not assessed on Exam)

Use a process to plan spoken presentations.

Use research strategies to gather information and evidence for inclusion in spoken presentations.

Produce spoken presentations in the appropriate register with an introduction, development of topic, and conclusion.

Use transitional expressions and cohesive devices to create paragraph-length discourse in spoken presentations.

Use pronunciation in spoken presentations that is comprehensible to speakers of the target language.

Use effective intonation patterns, pacing, and delivery in spoken presentations.

Use communication strategies such as circumlocution and paraphrasing to maintain spoken presentations.

Use a variety of grammar and syntax in spoken presentations.

Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences in a variety of time frames in spoken presentations.

Monitor language production; recognize errors and attempt self-correction in spoken presentations.

Explain ideas and opinions with examples in spoken presentations.

Compare features (including products, practices, and perspectives) of target cultural communities to those of the student's own community in spoken presentations.

Use a process to plan written presentations.

Use research strategies to gather information and evidence for inclusion in written presentations.

Produce written presentations in the appropriate register with an introduction, development of topic, and conclusion.

Use communication strategies such as circumlocution and paraphrasing to maintain written presentations.

Use transitional expressions and cohesive devices to create paragraph-length discourse in written presentations.

Use a variety of grammar and syntax in written presentations.

Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences in a variety of time frames in written presentations.

Use standard conventions of the written language (e.g., capitalization, orthography, accents, punctuation) in written presentations.

Monitor language production; recognize errors and attempt self-correction in written presentations. (not assessed on Exam)

Explain ideas and opinions with examples in written presentations.

Integrate information from sources and cite them appropriately in written presentations.