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ELD Course Entrance and Exit Benchmarks

Listening & Speaking

ELD 1 Beginning

  1. Responds to basic verbal and non-verbal commands.
  2. Says simple words, phrases, and questions to convey basic needs.

ELD 2 Early Intermediate

    1. Restates in simple sentences the main idea, and executes multi-step oral directions.
    2. Communicates basic needs by asking and answering in simple sentences in various social and academic settings.
    3. Delivers short oral presentations.
ELD 3 Intermediate
    1. Identifies main idea and important details in subject matter content.
    2. Participates in informal, academic conversations by asking and answering in complete sentences and restating what has been said.
    3. Prepares and delivers oral presentations on content-specific topics.
ELD 4 High Intermediate to mid Early Advanced
    1. Summarizes literary pieces in great detail (plot, characters, setting, theme).
    2. Delivers oral presentations that vary according to purpose, audience, and subject matter.
ELD 5 mid Early Advanced to Advanced
    1. Prepares and delivers presentations in various content areas (includes purpose, point of view, introduction, and conclusion).

Reading Fluency & Vocabulary Development

ELD 1 Beginning
    1. Use a dictionary to look up unknown words.
    2. Recognize and reads aloud simple words in literature and content-area texts.
    3. Read simple paragraphs independently.
ELD 2 Early Intermediate
    1. Recognize and self-corrects simple errors when reading and speaking aloud
    2. Recognize simple word relationships (synonyms, antonyms).
    3. Read short stories or passages independently.
ELD 3 Intermediate
    1. Use contextual clues to make inferences.
    2. Read chapter books independently.
    3. Recognize simple word relationships (affixes, prefixes)
    4. Smoothly read aloud a paragraph.
ELD 4 High Intermediate to mid Early Advanced
    1. Recognize figures of speech and common idioms.
    2. Develop academic vocabulary, paying attention to affixes and root words.
    3. Read aloud multiple paragraphs with some expression.
ELD 5 mid Early Advanced to Advanced
    1. Smoothly read aloud multiple paragraphs of mainstream text with basic expression.
    2. Interpret common idioms and figures of speech.
    3. Distinguish between the denotative and connotative meaning of words.

Reading Comprehension

ELD 1 Beginning
    1. Orally recognize main ideas and a few specific facts in text
    2. demonstrates comprehension of text by accurately responding to basic questions
ELD 2 Early Intermediate
    1. Distinguish the characteristics of different genres (play, poem, novel, fiction, non-fiction)
    2. Identify main ideas and supporting details in texts
    3. Recognize features of expository and informational texts (italics, bold, heading, title, bullets, captions, images).
ELD 3 Intermediate
    1. Apply knowledge of the main idea to make predictions about informational, literary, and content texts
    2. Read informational texts and use simple sentences to identify author’s purpose (inform, persuade, entertain, describe)
    3. Make inferences based on textual evidence
ELD 4 High Intermediate to mid Early Advanced
    1. Analyze the structure and format of workplace documents and the way in which authors use the features to achieve their purpose.
    2. Using textual evidence, articulate author’s purpose in a variety of literary texts
    3. Compare and contrast content from two or more sources.
ELD 5 mid Early Advanced to Advanced
    1. Synthesize the content from several sources on a single issue and demonstrate comprehension.
    2. Analyze how the author achieves his or her purpose.

Literary Response and Analysis

ELD 1 Beginning
    1. Identify orally the beginning, middle and end of literary texts
    2. Identify the sequence of events of simple literary texts
ELD 2 Early Intermediate
    1. Identify the plot, setting, and characters of a literary selection.
    2. Read a piece of literature and describe a character
    3. Identify the speaker or narrator and recognize the difference in points of view between first and third person
ELD 3 Intermediate
    1. Read literary texts and use detailed sentences to describe a character’s traits
    2. Explain the plot, setting, characters, imagery and figurative language (metaphor, simile, personification) used in literature.
    3. Recognize theme in short stories, fables, and poems.
ELD 4 High Intermediate to mid Early Advanced
    1. Analyze the use of literary elements (simile, metaphor, diction) in literature.
    2. Determine character’s traits through indirect characterization.
    3. Compare and contrast orally and in writing a similar theme or topic across several genres by using detailed sentences.
ELD 5 mid Early Advanced to Advanced
    1. Analyze the use of literary elements (mood, tone, irony) in literature.
    2. Analyze the interactions between main and subordinate characters in a literary text.
    3. Identify and describe the function of dialogue, monologues, soliloquies, asides, and character foils in dramatic literature.
    4. Analyze the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period.

Writing Strategies and Applications

ELD 1 Beginning
    1. Complete simple forms (name, address, phone number, contact numbers)
    2. Write simple compositions (expository) and stories (narratives) with main idea and supporting details
ELD 2 Early Intermediate
    1. Write complete paragraphs with introductory sentence, details, and concluding sentence
    2. Write paragraphs that demonstrate a connection to the text and relate to content area selections or literature
ELD 3 Intermediate
    1. Use simple and compound sentences to write narratives that include a sequence of events, characterization, and supporting details.
    2. Write responses to selected literature using detailed sentences and transitions.
    3. Use basic strategies of prewriting and summarizing on a variety of topics.
    4. Write body paragraphs with topic sentence, evidence, and analysis.
ELD 4 High Intermediate to low Early Advanced
    1. Write biographical or autobiographical narratives using the appropriate sequence of events and communicating their significance; include figurative language and sensory details and examples of indirect and direct characterization.
    2. Write responses to literature: state a clear position and include evidence from the texts and/or other works; include simple analysis of evidence
ELD 5 mid Early Advance to Advanced
    1. Write expository compositions that contain a simple thesis, body paragraphs with both evidence and analysis, and conclusion that remains on topic
    2. Write argumentative compositions that contain a controlling thesis, body paragraphs with appropriate evidence and developed analysis, and a conclusion that moves beyond simply restating the thesis
    3. Write responses to literature: state a clear position and include evidence from the texts and/or other works; include well developed analysis of evidence and integration of quotations with proper citation

Writing Conventions

: ELD 1 Beginning
    1. Revise and edit writing for capitalization, periods, and question marks.
    2. Know how to conjugate simple present and simple past verb tense
    3. Appropriately use present and past verb tense.
ELD 2 Early Intermediate
    1. Know how to conjugate future, present and past continuous verbs
    2. Write using varied sentences (simple, compound) with correct punctuation (commas)
ELD 3 Intermediate
    1. Revise paragraphs to use transitions (time) and varied sentence structure
    2. Know when to use the continuous tense in place of the simple tense for present and past verbs.
ELD 4 High Intermediate to mid Early Advanced
    1. Create coherent essays through time and sequence transitions.
    2. Use and punctuate introductory phrases and clauses
    3. Revise sentences for fragment and run-ons

ELD 5 Mid Early Advanced to Advanced

    1. Create coherent essays through transitions (thematic and topical)
    2. Use and punctuate embedded clauses and phrases
    3. Choose appropriate diction according to purpose