HS ELA Guide

Language Expectations for Multilingual Learners

Multilingual Learners will construct language arts narratives that ● Develop story, advancing the plot and themes with complications and resolutions, rime and event sequences.

Source: WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition

Essential Vocabulary ● Iterative process ● Craft ● Theme

● Genre ● Style ● Elements of language ● Cliche ● Sensory details ● Syntax ● Narrative Tense

● Outlining ● Storyboarding ● Timelines ● Plotting ● Narration ● Description ● Dialogue

● Writing techniques ● Figurative Language

● Word choice ● Points of View

Resources

Goldberg, Natalie. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within . Shambhala Publications, 2016. Kittle, Penny. Micro Mentor Texts . Scholastic, 2022.

Last Updated August 13, 2024

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