Page | 58 Appendix D: (Extracted) WIDA ELD Standards (Grades 6–8) Standard 1: Social and Instructional Language ELD-SI 4-12 Interpret and construct social and instructional narratives. • 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 oCer next steps ELD-SI 4-12 Interpret and construct social and instructional informational communication. • Define and classify facts and interpretations • 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-SI 4-12 Interpret and construct social and instructional explanations. • Generate and convey initial thinking • Follow and describe cycles and sequences of steps or procedures and their causes and eCects • Compare changing variables, factors, and circumstances • OCer 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-SI 4-12 Interpret and construct social and instructional arguments. • Generate questions about diCerent perspectives • Support or challenge an opinion, premise, or interpretation • Clarify and elaborate ideas based on feedback • Evaluate changes in thinking, identifying trade-oCs • Refine claims and reasoning based on new information or evidence
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