Kindergarten Language Arts Rubrics for 1st Trimester

Updated Feb. 2016

LA.K.01 Students will demonstrate knowledge of the alphabet.
Phonics Component
4

Assessment Tools

K.01.01a Students will identify

uppercase letters.

XXXX

26

11 - 25

0-10

Letter Identification
district assessment

K.01.01b Students will identify

lowercase letters.

XXXX

26

11-25

0-10

Letter Identification
district assessment

K.01.02 Students will identify letter

sounds.

XXXX

26

11-25

0-10

Letter Identification
district assessment

K.01.04a Students will write first name.

XXXX

Student uses a
correct letter
case. No
reversals.

Student uses
inconsistent
letter case
May have some
reversals.

Omits or can not

form letters in
name.

Student work, portfolio

K.01.04b Students will write last name.

Components not included on report card:

K.01.03 Students will print all uppercase and lowercase letters
K.01.05 Student will write a letter for most consonant and short vowel sounds (using phonetic spelling)

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LA.K.02 Students will use beginning literacy skills (phonemic awareness, phonics)
4
3
2
1
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K.02.05 Students will blend sounds into
not assessed 1st
meaningful units
trimester
K.02.01 Students will recognize and
65
46-64
20-45
0 - 19
Phonemic Awareness
produce rhyming words.
Assessment
K.02.02 Students will count, pronounce,
blend and segment. syllables in spoken
words.
K.02.03 Students will demonstrate that
spoken words are represented in written
language by specific sequences of
letters.
K.02.04 Students will understand that
words are separated by spaces in print.
K.02.05 Students will blend and
segment single syllable spoken words.
K.02.06 Students will add or substitute
individual sounds in simple one- syllable
words to make new words.
K.02.07 Students will demonstrate
basic knowledge of one-to-one
letter-sound correspondences by
producing the letter sound.
K.02.08 Students will isolate and
pronounce initial, medial and final sounds
in cvc words.
K.04.01: Students will follow words
Students can
With prompting
Students are
Teacher anecdotal
from left to right, top to bottom and
track print
students can
unable to track
notes
page by page.
correctly and
track print
print correctly
K.04.02: Students will identify the
are able to
correctly and
and can not
front cover, back cover and title page of
identify parts
are able to
identify parts
a book.
of a book.
identify parts of of a book.
a book.
Components introduced but not assessed
K.02.09: At an introductory level, students will associate the long and short sounds with common spellings for the 5 major vowels.

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LA.K.03 Students will practice reading with accuracy and emerging fluency.
4
3
2
K.03.01 Students will identify district
42 sight words 9 (scoring only 4-8 (scoring only
sight words
introduced
introduced words
words + first
+ first name)
name)
Components not included on report card:
K.03.02 Students will read with fluency (echo, choral, repeated, and paired readings).

1
0-3(scoring only
introduced
words + first
name)

Assessment Tools
District Sight Word
Assessment

Components introduced but not assessed:

K.03.03: At an introductory level, students will read on level text with emerging fluency (accuracy, rate, expression, volume, phrasing).
K.03.04: At an introductory level, students will use self-correction strategies as needed (ask themselves: Does that make sense?).
K.03.05: At an introductory level, students will develop and expand reading vocabulary.
LA.K.04 Students will respond to a variety of text (fiction and non-fiction) (comprehension)
Comprehension Component
4
3
2
K.04.03 Students will read on level text Beyond
On level
Approaching
with purpose and understanding
Components not included on report card:
K.04.01 Students will follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.
K.04.02 Students will identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.

1
Non Reader

Assessment Tools
Teacher observation
through anecdotal
notes

Components introduced but not assessed:

K.04.04 At an introductory level, students will ask and answer key details and main ideas in text.
K.04.05 At an introductory level, students will retell stories.
K.04.06 At an introductory level, students will identify characters, setting and major events in a story.
K.04.07 At an introductory level, students will name the author and illustrator of a story and identify their roles.
K.04.08 At an introductory level, students will describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what
moment in a story an illustration depicts).
K.04.09 At an introductory level, students will compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
K.04.10 At an introductory level, students will ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
K.04.11 At an introductory level, students will identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
K.04.12 At an introductory level, students will identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in
illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).

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LA.K.05 Students will develop skills
Writing Component
LA.K.05.01 Students will use a
combination of drawing, dictating
and writing to compose writing
pieces (opinion, informative,
explanatory and narrative pieces in
which they are able to: give an
opinion, give information, and retell
events).

and strategies of the writing process

4
3
Transitional,
Pre-communicat
Conventional
ive, Semi-phonetic,
Advanced
Phonetic

2
Pictorial

1
Emerging

Assessment Tools
NOT ASSESSED FIRST
TRIMESTER
Independent Writing
Samples, Teacher
Observation, (Conventions
of Writing Developmental
Scale Kid Writing Wright
Group Publishing 1999)

Components introduced but not assessed:

K05.02 At an introductory level, students will demonstrate conventions of print (capitalizations, periods, spacing).
K05.03 At an introductory level, students will respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
K.05.04 At an introductory level, students will explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including collaboration with peers.
K.05.05 At an introductory level, students will participate in shared research and writing projects (explore a number of books by a favorite
author and express opinions about them).
K.05.06 At an introductory level, students will recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a
question.
LA.K.06 Students will use grammar and mechanics in written and oral language.
Language Component
4
3
2
1
Assessment Tools
K.06.01 Students will be able to
XXX
Uses standard
Inconsistently
Does not use
Teacher Observation
respond to texts by using words and
English
uses standard
standard
phrases acquired through
grammar
English grammar
English
conversations, reading and being read
grammar
to.
Components introduced but not assessed:
K.06.02 At an introductory level, students will use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.
K.06.03 At an introductory level, students will be able to use pronouns.
K.06.04 At an introductory level, students will form regular plural nouns orally (by adding/s/ or /es/).
K.06.05 At an introductory level, students will understand and use question words (who, what, where, when, why and how).
K.06.06 At an introductory level, students will use the most frequently occurring prepositions (to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with).
K.06.07 At an introductory level, students will determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and apply them accurately.
K.06.08 At an introductory level, students will use the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (ed, s, re, un, pre, ful, less) as a clue to
the meaning of an unknown word.
K.06.09 At an introductory level, students will explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings (sort common objects/words in categories
and understand antonyms and synonyms).

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LA.K.07 Students will demonstrate speaking and listening strategies for learning and communicating.
Listening and Speaking Component
4
3
2
1
K.07.01 Students will actively engage
XXX
Takes turns
Inconsistently
Does not take
in group reading activities with purpose
takes turns
turns
and understanding.
K.07.02 Students will follow agreed
upon rules for discussions
K.07.03 Students will confirm
understanding of a text by asking and
answering questions about key details
and requesting clarification if
something is not understood.
K.07.04 Students will describe familiar
people, places, things and events with
prompting and support and provide
additional detail.
K.07.05 Students use appropriate
voice level

XXX

Uses
appropriate
voice level

Inconsistently uses
appropriate voice
level

Components not included on report card:

K.07.06 Students will recite familiar stories, poems, songs, nursery rhymes, etc.
K.07.07 Students will produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.

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Does not use

appropriate
voice level

Assessment Tools
Teacher
Observation

Kindergarten Language Arts Rubrics for 2nd Trimester

LA.K.01 Students will demonstrate knowledge of the alphabet.
Phonics Component
4

Assessment Tools

K.01.01a Students will identify

uppercase letters.

XXX

26

19-25

0-18

Letter Identification
District Assessment

K.01.01b Students will identify

lowercase letters.

XXX

26

19-25

0-18

Letter Identification
District Assessment

K.01.02 Students will produce all letter

sounds.

XXX

26

19-25

0-18

Letter Identification
District Assessment

K.01.04a Students will write their first

name from memory.

XXX

Student Work/Portfolio

XXX

Student uses
some capital
letters when
printing
his/her name
Student uses
some capital
letters when
printing
his/her name

Students name is
not written in
standard form

K.01.04b Students will write their last

name from memory.

Student uses a
capital
beginning letter
with the rest
being lowercase
Student uses a
capital
beginning letter
with the rest
being lowercase

Students name is
not written in
standard form

Student Work/Portfoilo

Components not included on report card:

K.01.03 Students will print all uppercase and lowercase letters.
K.01.05 Students will write a letter for most consonant and short vowel sounds (using phonetic spelling)

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LA.K.02 Students will use beginning literacy skills (phonemic awareness, phonics).
4
3
2
K.02.05 Students will blend sounds into XXX
10
4-9
meaningful units.
7-8
3-6
K.02.01 Students will recognize and
produce rhyming words.
K.02.02 Students will count, pronounce,
blend and segment. syllables in spoken
words.
K.02.03 Students will demonstrate that
spoken words are represented in written
language by specific sequences of
letters.
K.02.04 Students will understand that
words are separated by spaces in print.
K.02.05 Students will blend and
segment single syllable spoken words.
K.02.06 Students will add or substitute
individual sounds in simple one- syllable
words to make new words.
K.02.07 Students will demonstrate
basic knowledge of one-to-one
letter-sound correspondences by
producing the letter sound.
K.02.08 Students will isolate and
pronounce initial, medial and final sounds
in cvc words.
K.04.01: Students will follow words
from left to right, top to bottom and
page by page.
K.04.02: Students will identify the
front cover, back cover and title page of
a book.

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0-3

0-2

60-65

45-59

0 - 44

Students can
track print
correctly and
are able to
identify parts
of a book.

With prompting
students can
track print
correctly and
are able to
identify parts of
a book.

Students are
unable to track
print correctly
and can not
identify parts
of a book.

Assessment Tools
Blending Assessment
Blending using 8
words. Unit 5 week 3
plus mop and rug
Phonemic Awareness
Assessment

Teacher anecdotal
notes


Components introduced but not assessed:
K.02.09: At an introductory level, students will associate the long and short sounds with common spellings for the 5 major vowels.

LA.K.03 Students will practice reading with accuracy and emerging fluency.
4
3
2
K.03.01 Students will identify district
42
22-41
10-21
sight words.

0-9

Assessment Tools
Sight Word
Assessment

Components not included on report card:

K.03.02: Students will read with fluency (echo, choral, repeated, and paired readings).
Components introduced but not assessed:
K.03.03: At an introductory level, students will read on level text with emerging fluency (accuracy, rate, expression, volume, phrasing).
K.03.04: At an introductory level, students will use self-correction strategies as needed (ask themselves: Does that make sense?).
K.03.05: At an introductory level, students will develop and expand reading vocabulary.
LA.K.04 Students will respond to a variety of text (fiction and non-fiction)
Comprehension Component
4
3
2
K.04.03 Students will read on level Independent
Instructional
Instructional
text with purpose and
Level F
on level B on
understanding.
Instructional
Independent
F
level A

1
Non-reader

Assessment Tools
Fountas and Pinnell
Assess

Components not included on report card:

K.04.01: Students will follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.
K.04.02: Students will identify the front cover, back cover and title page of a book.
Components introduced but not assessed:
K.04.04: At an introductory level, students will ask and answer key details and main ideas in text
K.04.05: At an introductory level, students will retell stories.
K.04.06: At an introductory level, students will characters, setting and major events in a story.
K.04.07: At an introductory level, students will name the author and illustrator of a story and define their roles.
K.04.08: At an introductory level, students will describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what
moment in a story an illustration depicts).
K.04.09: At an introductory level, students will compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
K.04.10: At an introductory level, students will ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

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K.04.11: At an introductory level, students will identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
K.04.12: At an introductory level, students will identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in
illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).

LA.K.05 Students will develop skills and strategies of the writing process.
Writing Component
4
3
2
LA.K.05.01 Students will use a
My writing
My writing
My writing
combination of drawing, dictating and exceeds
needed
required some
writing to compose writing pieces
expectations.
minimal
support.
(opinion, informative, explanatory and
support.
narrative pieces in which they are
able to: give and opinion, give
information, and retell events).
34-37
28-33

1
My writing
needed
substantial
support.
27 & Below

Assessment Tools
Writing Rubric

Hearing and Recording

Sounds (use for
supporting evidence)

Components introduced but not assessed:

K.05.02: At an introductory level, students will demonstrate conventions of print (capitalizations, periods, spacing).
K.05.03: At an introductory level, students will respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
K.05.04: At an introductory level, students will explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including collaboration with peers.
K.05.05: At an introductory level, students will participate in shared research and writing projects (explore a number of books by a favorite
author and express opinions about them).
K.05.06: At an introductory level, students will recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a
question.
LA.K.06 Students will use grammar and mechanics in written and oral language.
Language Component
4
3
2
1
Assessment Tools
K.06.01 Students will be able to
XXX
Uses standard
Inconsistently
Does not use
Teacher Observation
respond to text by using words and
English
uses standard
standard
phrases acquired through
grammar
English grammar
English
conversations, reading and being read
grammar
to.
Components introduced but not assessed:
K.06.02: At an introductory level, students will use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.
K.06.03: At an introductory level, students will use pronouns.
K.06.04: At an introductory level, students will form regular plural nouns orally (by adding/s/ or /es/).
K.06.05: At an introductory level, students will understand and use question words (who, what, where, when, why and how).
K.06.06: At an introductory level, students will use the most frequently occurring prepositions (to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with).
K.06.07: At an introductory level, students will determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and apply them

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accurately.
K.06.08: At an introductory level, students will use the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (ed, s, re, un, pre, ful, less) as a clue to
the meaning of an unknown word.
K.06.09: At an introductory level, students will explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings (sort common objects/words in
categories and understand antonyms synonyms).

LA.K.07 Students will demonstrate speaking and listening strategies for learning and communicating.
Listening and Speaking Component
4
3
2
1
K.07.01 Students will actively engage
XXX
Take turns
Inconsistently
Does not take
in group reading activities with purpose
takes turns
turns
and understanding.
K.07.02 Students will follow agreed
upon rules for discussions
K.07.03 Students will confirm
understanding of a text by asking and
answering questions about key details
and requesting clarification if
something is not understood.
K.07.04 Students will describe familiar
people, places, things and events with
prompting and support and provide
additional detail.

K.07.05 Students use appropriate

voice level.

XXX

Uses
appropriately
voice levels.

Inconsistently
uses appropriately
voice level.

Components not included on report card:

K.07.06: Students will recite familiar stories, poems, songs, nursery rhymes etc.
K.07.07: Students will produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.

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Does not use

appropriate
voice level.

Assessment Tools
Teacher Observation

Teacher Observation

Kindergarten Language Arts Rubrics for 3rd Trimester

LA.K.01 Students will demonstrate knowledge of the alphabet.
Phonics Component
4

Assessment Tools

K.1.01a Students will identify

uppercase letters

XXX

26

23-25

0-22

Letter Identification
District Assessment

K.1.01b Students will identify

lowercase letters.

XXX

26

23-25

0-22

Letter Identification
District Assessment

K.1.02 Students will identify letter

sounds

XXX

26

23-25

0-22

Letter Identification
District Assessment

K.1.04a Students will write first name

XXX

Student uses
some capital
letters when
printing name

Student name is
not written in
standard form

Sample work
Daily work

K.1.04b Students will write last name

XXX

Student uses a
capital
beginning letter
with the rest
being lowercase
Student uses a
capital
beginning letter
with the rest
being lowercase

Student uses
some capital
letters when
printing name

Student name is
not written in
standard form

Sample work
Daily work

Components not included on report card:

K.01.03: Students will print all lower and uppercase letters.
K.01.05: Students will write a letter for most consonant and short vowel sounds (using phonetic spelling).

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LA.K.02 Students will use beginning literacy skills (phonemic awareness, phonics).
4
3
2

K.02.05 Students will blend sounds into

meaningful units.

XXX

10

7-9

0-6

K.02.01 Students will recognize and

produce rhyming words.
K.02.02 Students will count, pronounce,
blend and segment. syllables in spoken
words.
K.02.03 Students will demonstrate that
spoken words are represented in written
language by specific sequences of
letters.
K.02.04 Students will understand that
words are separated by spaces in print.
K.02.05 Students will blend and
segment single syllable spoken words.
K.02.06 Students will add or substitute
individual sounds in simple one- syllable
words to make new words.
K.02.07 Students will demonstrate
basic knowledge of one-to-one
letter-sound correspondences by
producing the letter sound.
K.02.08 Students will isolate and
pronounce initial, medial and final sounds
in cvc words.

65 ( If scored
1st or 2nd tri.)

64-65 (If
scored 65 only
3rd tri

51 - 63

0 - 50

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Assessment Tools
Blending Assessment
*using 10 word list
(Do before intro. To
long vowels)
Phonemic Awareness
Assessment


K.04.01: Students will follow words
from left to right, top to bottom and
page by page.
K.04.02: Students will identify the
front cover, back cover and title page of
a book.

Students can
track print
correctly and
are able to
identify parts
of a book.

With prompting
students can
track print
correctly and
are able to
identify parts of
a book.

Students are
unable to
track print
correctly and
can not
identify parts
of a book.

Teacher anecdotal
notes

Components introduced but not assessed:

K.02.09: At an introductory level, students will associate the long and short sounds with common spellings for the 5 major vowels.

LA.K.03 Students will practice reading with accuracy and emerging fluency
4
3
2
3.01 Students will identify district
XXX
42
25-41
sight words

0-24

Assessment Tools
District sight word
list

Components not included on report card:

K.03.02: Students will read with fluency (echo, choral, repeated and paired readings).
Components introduced but not assessed:
K.03.03: At an introductory level, students will read on level text with emerging fluency (accuracy, rate, expression, volume, phrasing).
K.03.04: At an introductory level, students will use self-correction strategies as needed (ask themselves: Does that make sense?).
K.03.05: At an introductory level, students will develop and expand reading vocabulary.
LA.K.04 Students will respond to a variety of text (fiction and non-fiction texts) (Comprehension)
Comprehension Component
4 above
3 on
2 below
1
K.04.03 Students will read on level
Independent on Independent on Instructional B
Non Reader text with purpose and understanding
Level F or
level C - Instructional
Independent A
above
Instruction F
C
Components not included on report card:
K..04.01: Students will follow words from left to right, top to bottom and page by page.
K.04.02: Students will identify the front cover, back cover and title page of a book.
Components introduced but not assessed:
K.04.04: At an introductory level, students will ask and answer key details and main ideas in text.
K.04.05: At an introductory level, students will retell stories.

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Assessment Tools
Fountas and Pinnell
Assess All Students
3rd Trimester only

K.04.06: At an introductory level, students will identify characters, setting and major events in a story.
K.04.07: At an introductory level, students will name the author and illustrator of a story and define their roles.
K.04.08: At an introductory level, students will describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what
moment in a story an illustration depicts).
K.04.09: At an introductory level, students will compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
K.04.10: At an introductory level, students will ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
K.04.11: At an introductory level, students will identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
K.04.12: At an introductory level, students will identify basic similarities in and difference between two text on the same topic (e.g., in
illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).

LA.K.05 Students will develop skills and

Writing Component
LA.K.05.01 Students will use a
combination of drawing, dictating and
writing to compose writing pieces
(opinion, informative, explanatory and
narrative pieces in which they are able
to: give an opinion, give information, and
retell events).

strategies of the
4
My writing
exceeds
expectations.

writing process
3
My writing
needed minimal
support.

34-37

2
My writing
required some
support.

1
My writing
needed
substantial
support.
27 & Below

28-33

Assessment Tools
Writing Rubric

Hearing and
Recording Sounds
(use for supporting
evidence)

Components introduced but not assessed:

K.05.02: At an introductory level, students will demonstrate conventions of print (capitalizations, periods, spacing).
K.05.03: At an introductory level, students will respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
K.05.04: At an introductory level, students will explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including collaboration with peers.
K.05.05: At an introductory level, students will participate in shared research and writing projects (explore a number of books by a favorite
author and express opinions about them).
K.05.06: At an introductory level, students will recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a
question.
LA.K.06 Students will use grammar and mechanics and oral language
Language Component
4
3
K.06.01 Students will be able to
respond to texts by using words and
phrases acquired through
conversations, reading and being read

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XXX

Uses standard
English
grammar

2
Inconsistently
uses standard
English grammar

1
Does not use
standard
English
grammar

Assessment Tools
Teacher
Observation


to
Components introduced but not assessed:
K.06.02: At an introductory level, students will use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.
K.06.03: At an introductory level, students will use pronouns.
K.06.04: At an introductory level, students will form regular plural nouns orally (by adding / s/ or /es/).
K.06.05: At an introductory level, students will understand and use question words (who, what, where, when, why and how).
K.06.06: At an introductory level, students will use the most frequently occurring prepositions (to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with).
K.06.07: At an introductory level, students will determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and apply them
accurately.
K.06.08: At an introductory level, students will use the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (ed, s, re, un, pre, ful, less) as a clue to
the meaning of an unknown word.
K.06.09: At an introductory level, students will explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings (sort common objects/words in
categories and understand antonyms and synonyms).
LA.K.07 Students will demonstrate speaking and listening strategies for learning and communicating
Listening and Speaking Component
4
3
2
1
K.07.01 Students will actively engage
XXX
Takes turns
Inconsistently
Does not takes
in group reading activities with purpose
takes turns
turns
and understanding.
K.07.02 Students will follow agreed
upon rules for discussions
K.07.03 Students will confirm
understanding of a text by asking and
answering questions about key details
and requesting clarification if
something is not understood.
K.07.04 Students will describe familiar
people, places, things and events with
prompting and support and provide
additional detail.
K.07.05 Students use appropriate
voice level

XXX

Uses
appropriate
voice level

Inconsistently
uses appropriate
voice level

Components not included on report card:

K.07.06: Students will recite familiar stories, poems, songs, nursery rhymes etc.
K.07.07: Students will produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.

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Does not use

appropriate
voice level

Assessment Tools
Teacher Observation

Assessment Tools

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