• Correlating ELA standards with what we CAN DO in our ESL classrooms

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.4
    Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.5
    Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.6
    Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
     
     
    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.7
    Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text.
    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.8
    (RL.4.8 not applicable to literature)
    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.9
    Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.
     
     

    NCES.5.L.1 Understand how structures and systems of organisms (to include the human body) perform functions necessary for life.