ELL 30 High Beginning ELL

• Listening
  • Distinguish voice patterns for questions, statements and imperatives
  • Respond to conversations, instructions, and narratives in the form of basic connected discourse on familiar topics related to personal background/needs and everyday tasks
  • Apply background knowledge to understand the intent of the speaker
• Speaking
  • Use vocabulary related to common/everyday topics or personal experience  and basic sentence structure in familiar/predictable communication tasks
  • Use simple strategies (such as making and responding requests for feedback repetition, and rephrasing) to meet the speaking purpose
• Reading
  • Demonstrate familiarity with simple, everyday knowledge and vocabulary
  • Read simple stories and understand main messages
  • Use various strategies such as restating and rephrasing text, and use a simplified dictionary
• Writing
  • Make basic edits of grammar, capitalization, spelling, and punctuation
  • Use appropriate subject-verb agreement
  • Organize and write 4-5 sentence paragraphs with proper structure using various verb tenses