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Kindergarten - 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.K.5 | SL.K.4 | SL.K.6 | L.K.1 | L.K.6 |
EMERGING
1

Expand sentences with frequently used prepositional phrases (such as in the house, on the boat) to provide details (e.g., time, manner, place, cause) about a familiar activity or process in shared language activities guided by the teacher and sometimes independently.

EXPANDING
2

Expand sentences with prepositional phrases to provide details (e.g., time, manner, place, cause) about a familiar or new activity or process in shared language activities guided by the teacher and with increasing independence.

BRIDGING
3

Expand simple and compound sentences with prepositional phrases to provide details (e.g., time, manner, place, cause) in shared language activities guided by the teacher and independently.