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2nd Grade - CA ELD Standard
Part II: Learning About How English Works
Structuring Cohesive Texts
Understanding cohesion

Understanding cohesion and how language resources across a text contribute to the way a text unfolds and flows.

| RL.2.5 | RI.2.5 | W.2.1 | W.2.2 | W.2.3 | W.2.4 | SL.2.4 | L.2.1 | L.2.3 |
EMERGING
1

Apply basic understanding of how ideas, events, or reasons are linked throughout a text using more everyday connecting words or phrases (e.g., today, then) to comprehending and composing texts in shared language activities guided by the teacher, with peers, and sometimes independently.

EXPANDING
2

Understanding cohesion Apply understanding of how ideas, events, or reasons are linked throughout a text using a growing number of connecting words or phrases (e.g., after a long time, first/ next) to comprehending texts and writing texts with increasing independence.

BRIDGING
3

Apply understanding of how ideas, events, or reasons are linked throughout a text using a variety of connecting words or phrases (e.g., for example, after that, suddenly) to comprehending and writing texts independently.