Grade 1

Other West Virginia English Learners sets

• Kindergarten
• Grade 2, Grade 3
• Grade 4, Grade 5
• Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
• Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12

Level 1: • listen to short conversations • respond to simple yes/no and some wh- questions about familiar topics.ELP.1.2.L1

Level 2: • participate in short conversations • take turns • respond to simple yes/no and wh- questions about familiar topics.ELP.1.2.L2

Level 3: • participate in short discussions, conversations, and short written exchanges • follow rules for discussion • ask and answer simple questions about familiar topics.ELP.1.2.L3

Level 4: • participate in discussions, conversations, and written exchanges • follow rules for discussion • ask and answer questions • respond to the comments of others • make comments of his or her own about a variety of topics and texts.ELP.1.2.L4

Level 5: • participate in extended discussions, conversations, and written exchanges • follow rules for discussion • ask and answer questions • build on the comments of others • contribute his or her own comments about a variety of topics and texts.ELP.1.2.L5

Level 1: • communicate simple information or feelings about familiar topics or experiences.ELP.1.3.L1

Level 2: • communicate simple messages about familiar topics, experiences, or events.ELP.1.3.L2

Level 3: • deliver short simple oral presentations • compose short written texts about familiar topics, stories, experiences, or events.ELP.1.3.L3

Level 4: using simple sentences and drawings or illustrations, • deliver short simple oral presentations • compose written texts about a variety of texts, topics, experiences, or events.ELP.1.3.L4

Level 5: including a few descriptive details, • deliver oral presentations • compose written texts about a variety of texts, topics, experiences, or events.ELP.1.3.L5

Level 1: • express a preference or opinion about familiar topics or experiences.ELP.1.4.L1

Level 2: • express an opinion about familiar topics, experiences, or events.ELP.1.4.L2

Level 3: • express an opinion • give a reason for the opinion about familiar stories, experiences, or events.ELP.1.4.L3

Level 4: • express opinions • give a reason for the opinion about a variety of texts topics, experiences, and events.ELP.1.4.L4

Level 5: • express opinions • introduce the topic • give a reason for the opinion • provide a sense of closure about a variety of texts, topics, experiences, or events.ELP.1.4.L5

Level 1: with prompting and support from adults, • participate in shared research projects • gather information • label information from provided sources showing limited control.ELP.1.5.L1

Level 2: with prompting and support from adults, • participate in shared research projects • gather information • summarize some key information from provided sources showing emerging control.ELP.1.5.L2

Level 3: with prompting and support from adults, • participate in shared research projects • gather information • summarize information from provided sources showing developing control.ELP.1.5.L3

Level 4: with prompting and support from adults, • participate in shared research projects • gather information • summarize information • answer a question from provided sources showing increasingly independent control.ELP.1.5.L4

Level 5: with prompting and support from adults, • participate in shared research projects • gather information • summarize information • answer a question from provided sources showing independent control.ELP.1.5.L5

Level 1: [Standard introduced at Level 2.]ELP.1.6.L1

Level 2: with prompting and support, • identify a reason an author or a speaker gives to support a point.ELP.1.6.L2

Level 3: • identify one or two reasons an author or a speaker gives to support the main point.ELP.1.6.L3

Level 4: • identify reasons an author or a speaker gives to support the main point.ELP.1.6.L4

Level 5: • identify appropriate reasons an author or a speaker gives to support the main point.ELP.1.6.L5

Level 1: [Standard introduced at Level 3.]ELP.1.7.L1

Level 2: [Standard introduced at Level 3.]ELP.1.7.L2

Level 3: • show a developing awareness of the difference between appropriate language for the playground and language for the classroom.ELP.1.7.L3

Level 4: • show awareness of differences between informal “playground speech” and language appropriate to the classroom • use some words learned through conversations, reading, and being read to.ELP.1.7.L4

Level 5: • shift appropriately between informal “playground speech” and language appropriate to the classroom most of the time • use words learned through conversations, reading, and being read to.ELP.1.7.L5

Level 1: with prompting and support (including context and visual aids), • recognize the meaning of a few frequently occurring words and phrases in simple oral presentations and read-alouds about familiar topics, experiences, or events.ELP.1.8.L1

Level 2: with prompting and support (including context and visual aids), • answer and sometimes ask simple questions to help determine the meaning of frequently occurring words and phrases in simple oral presentations and read-alouds about familiar topics, experiences, or events.ELP.1.8.L2

Level 3: using sentence-level context and visual aids, • answer and sometimes ask questions to help determine the meaning of some less frequently occurring words and phrases in oral presentations, read-alouds, and simple texts about familiar topics, experiences, or events.ELP.1.8.L3

Level 4: using sentence context, visual aids, and some knowledge of frequently occurring root words and their inflectional forms, • answer and ask questions to help determine the meaning of less common words, phrases, and simple idiomatic expressions in oral presentations and written texts about a variety of topics, experiences, or events.ELP.1.8.L4

Level 5: using context, some visual aids, and knowledge of morphology (e.g., simple inflectional endings such as -ed, -ing, and some common prefixes), • answer and ask questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words, phrases, and idiomatic expressions in oral presentations and written texts about a variety of topics, experiences, or events.ELP.1.8.L5

Level 1: [Standard introduced at Level 2.]ELP.1.9.L1

Level 2: with support (including visual aids and modeled sentences), • retell an event • present simple information with emerging control of some frequently occurring linking words.ELP.1.9.L2

Level 3: with support (including modeled sentences), • retell (in speech or writing) a simple sequence of events in the correct order • present simple information with developing control of some frequently occurring linking words (e.g., and, so) and temporal words (e.g., first, then).ELP.1.9.L3

Level 4: • recount two or three events in sequence • present simple information about a topic with increasingly independent control of some temporal words (e.g., next, after),and some frequently occurring linking words (and, so).ELP.1.9.L4

Level 5: • recount a more complex sequence of events in the correct order • introduce a topic • provide some facts about a topic using temporal words to signal event order and using frequently occurring conjunctions (linking words or phrases).ELP.1.9.L5

Level 1: with support (including context and visual aids), • understand and use a small number of frequently occurring nouns and verbs, • understand and use very simple sentences • respond to simple questions.ELP.1.10.L1

Level 2: with support (including visual aids and sentences) • recognize and use frequently occurring nouns, verbs, prepositions, and conjunctions (e.g., and, but, or) • produce simple sentences.ELP.1.10.L2

Level 3: with support (including modeled sentences), • use some singular and plural nouns • use verbs in the present and past tenses • use frequently occurring prepositions and conjunctions • produce and expand simple sentences in response to prompts.ELP.1.10.L3

Level 4: • use an increasing number of singular and plural nouns, and verbs • use present and past verb tenses with appropriate subject-verb agreement • use frequently occurring prepositions and conjunctions • produce and expand simple and some compound sentences in response to prompts.ELP.1.10.L4

Level 5: • use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs, • use past, present, and future verb tenses • use frequently occurring prepositions and conjunctions • produce and expand simple and compound sentences in response to prompts.ELP.1.10.L5