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8th Grade - CA ELD Standard
Part II: Learning About How English Works
Expanding & Enriching Ideas
Modifying to add details

Modifying to add details to provide more information and create precision.

| W.8.4 | W.8.5 | WHST.6-8.4 | WHST.6-8.5 | SL.8.6 | L.8.1 | L.8.3 | L.8.4 | L.8.5 | L.8.6 |
EMERGING
1

Expand sentences with simple adverbials (e.g., adverbs, adverb phrases, prepositional phrases) to provide details (e.g., time, manner, place, cause) about a familiar activity or process.

EXPANDING
2

Expand sentences with adverbials (e.g., adverbs, adverb phrases, prepositional phrases) to provide details (e.g., time, manner, place, cause) about a familiar or new activity or process.

BRIDGING
3

Expand sentences with increasingly complex adverbials (e.g., adverbs, adverb phrases and clauses, prepositional phrases) to provide details (e.g., time, manner, place, cause) about a variety of familiar and new activities and processes.