ELD-MS.SI.e

BPSS-ELD-SI logo (ELD) logo MS English Language Development Standard

Standard 1: (SI) Social and Instructional Purposes 

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

Key Language Expectations:

Multilingual learners will ...
  • 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

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