GRADES 6 – 8 INTERMEDIATE ESOL STANDARDS
STANDARD 1: LISTENING
Knowledge Base Indicators
The student…
1.1.2. Intermediate Level
follows simple three and four step directions.
1.1.6. Intermediate Level
identifies initial, medial, or ending sounds.
1.1.8. Intermediate Level
demonstrates ability to correct language by recognizing obviously incorrect forms and structures.
1.1.9. Intermediate Level
identifies the main idea of a short passage.
1.1.10. Intermediate Level
makes inferences and draws conclusions from short passages.
1.1.11. Intermediate Level
identifies key details from short passages.
STANDARD 2: SPEAKING
Knowledge Base Indicators
The student…
2. Intermediate Level
responds to needs by asking questions appropriate to the situation.
4. Intermediate Level
uses basic grammatical forms.
5. Intermediate Level
retells stories with a beginning, middle, and end.
6. Intermediate Level
responds to questions using appropriate complete sentences.
7. Intermediate Level
tells what is happening in a picture using simple sentences.
STANDARD 3: READING
Knowledge Base Indicators
The student…
3.1.2. Intermediate Level
applies knowledge of letter-sound correspondences to identify intermediate words.
3.1.4. Intermediate Level
identifies word families and distinguishes rhyming from non-rhyming words.
3.1.5. Intermediate Level
identifies the initial, medial, and final sounds of a word.
3.1.9. Intermediate Level
recognizes words such as compound words, base words, and inflections (e.g., railroad, aim, tall, –ed, -er, -est).
3.2.1. Intermediate Level
demonstrates comprehension of intermediate vocabulary in context.
3.2.2. Intermediate Level
identifies intermediate sight words.
3.2.3. Intermediate Level
identifies the correct usage from multiple-meanings words.
3.2.4. Intermediate Level
identifies intermediate synonyms and antonyms.
3.2.6. Intermediate Level
identifies and understands analogies in written text.
3.3.1. Intermediate Level
identifies the sequence of events in stories read, using key words or phrases.
3.3.4. Intermediate Level
responds to stories by answering questions using phrases or simple sentences
(e.g., who, what, when, where, and how).
3.3.5. Intermediate Level
understands and follows simple 3-4 step written directions.
3.3.7. Intermediate Level
identifies the main idea of a short passage.
3.3.10. Intermediate Level
draws inferences and conclusions from short passages.
3.3.16. Intermediate
distinguishes fact and opinion in various texts.
STANDARD 4: WRITING
Knowledge Base Indicators
The student…
4.1.1. Intermediate Level
writes 3-5 sentences related to a picture or a prompt.
4.2.2. Intermediate Level
uses sequence and transitional words correctly (e.g., first, then, next, after).
4.4.1. Intermediate Level
uses common and proper nouns.
4.4.2. Intermediate Level
uses adjectives and adverbs, including comparatives.
4.4.3. Intermediate Level
uses high-frequency prepositional phrases (e.g., in the house, to school, on the bus).
4.4.4. Intermediate Level
uses varied verbs (e.g., enjoy, seem, reply).
4.4.5. Intermediate Level
uses synonyms and antonyms.
4.4.6. Intermediate Level
uses subject, object, and possessive pronouns.
4.4.7. Intermediate Level
uses definite and indefinite articles.
4.4.8. Intermediate Level
uses regular and irregular plurals correctly.
4.4.9. Intermediate Level
uses prefixes and suffixes correctly.
4.5.1. Intermediate Level
writes simple sentences with varied lengths in correct word order (e.g., declarative, interrogative, and imperative forms).
4.5.2. Intermediate Level
writes grammatically correct simple, compound and complex sentences, using conjunctions (e.g., since, because, if, but, while).
4.5.3. Intermediate Level
uses subject/verb agreement in sentences.
4.5.4. Intermediate Level
uses simple verb tenses and auxiliary verbs (e.g., simple past, future with will and going to, past progressive).
4.6.4. Intermediate Level
uses correct ending punctuation and commas (e.g., lists, dates, and cities to states).
4.6.5. Intermediate Level
uses correct capitalizations.
4.6.6. Intermediate Level
uses appropriate paragraph format (indentation and alignment).
4.6.7. Intermediate Level
spells high frequency words correctly.
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