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4th 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.4.5 | SL.4.4 | SL.4.5 | SL.4.6 | L.4.1 | L.4.3 | L.4.6 |
EMERGING
1

Expand sentences with familiar adverbials (e.g., basic prepositional phrases) to provide details (e.g., time, manner, place, cause, and so on) about a familiar activity or process (e.g., They walked to the soccer field).

EXPANDING
2

Expand sentences with a growing variety of adverbials (e.g., adverbs, prepositional phrases) to provide details (e.g., time, manner, place, cause, and so on) about a familiar or new activity or process (e.g., They worked quietly. They ran across the soccer field).

BRIDGING
3

Expand sentences with a variety of adverbials (e.g., adverbs, adverb phrases, prepositional phrases) to provide details (e.g., time, manner, place, cause, and so on) about a variety of familiar and new activities and processes (e.g., They worked quietly all night in their room).