BPS District (ELD) Standards Book

ELD-MS.SI.n
Conveys experiences through stories.

• Share ideas about one’s own and others’ lived experiences and previous learning
  
• Connect stories with images and representations to add meaning
  
• Identify and raise questions about what might be unexplained, missing, or left unsaid
  
• Recount and restate ideas to sustain and move dialogue forward
  
• Create closure, recap, and offer next steps
  

ELD-MS.SI.i
Conveys factual information by describing, comparing, contrasting, and categorizing ideas or phenomena.

• Define and classify facts and interpretations; determine what is known vs. unknown
  
• Report on explicit and inferred characteristics, patterns, or behavior
  
• Describe the parts and wholes of a system
  
• Sort, clarify, and summarize relationships
  
• Summarize most important aspects of information
  

ELD-MS.SI.e
Expresses knowledge about how things work or why things happen.

• Generate and convey initial thinking
  
• Follow and describe cycles and sequences of steps or procedures and their causes and effects
  
• Compare changing variables, factors, and circumstances
  
• Offer alternatives to extend or deepen awareness of factors that contribute to particular outcomes
  
• Act on feedback to revise understandings of how or why something is or works in particular ways
  

ELD-MS.SI.a
Supports claims, ideas, or solutions using evidence and reasoning.

• Generate questions about different perspectives
  
• Support or challenge an opinion, premise, or interpretation
  
• Clarify and elaborate ideas based on feedback
  
• Evaluate changes in thinking, identifying trade-offs
  
• Refine claims and reasoning based on new information or evidence
  

ELD-MS.LA.n.i Narrate Interpretive: Interpret language arts narratives by

• Identifying a theme or central idea that develops over the course of a text
• Analyzing how character attributes and actions develop in relation to events or dialogue
• Evaluating impact of specific word choices about meaning and tone

ELD-MS.LA.n.e Narrate Expressive: Construct language arts narratives that

• Orient audience to context and point of view
• Develop and describe characters and their relationships
• Develop story, including themes with complication and resolution, time, and event sequences
• Engage and adjust for audience

ELD-MS.LA.i.i Inform Interpretive: Interpret informational texts in language arts by

• Identifying and/or summarizing main ideas and their relationship to supporting ideas
• Analyzing observations and descriptions in textual evidence for key attributes, qualities, characteristics, activities, and behaviors
• Evaluating the impact of author’s key word choices over the course of a text

ELD-MS.LA.i.e Inform Expressive: Construct informational texts in language arts that

• Introduce and define topic and/or entity for audience
• Establish objective or neutral stance
• Add precision, details, and clarity about relevant attributes, qualities, characteristics, activities, and behaviors
• Develop coherence and cohesion throughout text

ELD-MS.LA.a.i Argue Interpretive: Interpret language arts arguments by

• Identifying and summarizing central idea distinct from prior knowledge or opinions
• Analyzing how an author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints
• Evaluating relevance, sufficiency of evidence, and validity of reasoning that support claim(s)

ELD-MS.LA.a.e Argue Expressive: Construct language arts arguments that

• Introduce and develop claim(s) and acknowledge counterclaim(s)
• Support claims with reasons and evidence that are clear, relevant, and credible
• Establish and maintain formal style
• Logically organize claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence; offer a conclusion