HS ELA Guide

●​ UDCA Informative Rubric ●​ UDCA Impromptu Rubric ●​ UDCA Extemp Rubric

Language Expectations for Multilingual Learners

Multilingual Learners will construct informational texts in language arts that: ●​ Add precision, details, and clarity about complex attributes, qualities, characteristics, activities, and conceptual relationships through … ○​ Technical word choices to define and classify entity ( Jazz, characterized by polyrhythms and improvisation was… ) ●​ Develop coherence and cohesion throughout text through … ○​ Topic and/or entity, headings to serve as openers for sentences and paragraphs

Source: WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition

Essential Vocabulary ●​ Impromptu ●​ Extemporaneous ●​ Oratory ​ ●​ Loaded terms

●​ Current events ●​ Issues ●​ Credible sources ●​ Opening

●​ Critiquing ●​ Formal register ●​ False assumptions ●​ Closing

Resources ●​ Utah Debate Association Lesson Plans and Video ●​ National Speech and Debate Youtube Channel

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Last Updated

High School ELA, Page 130

Jun 2, 2025