Kindergarten

Social and Instructional Language

Language for Language Arts

Language for Mathematics

Language for Science

Language for Social Studies 

Narrate

Inform

Explain

Argue

Narrate

Inform

Inform

Inform

Explain

Inform

Interpret language arts narratives (with prompting and support) by

Construct language arts narratives (with prompting and support) that

Interpret informational texts in language arts (with prompting and support) by

Construct informational texts in language arts (with prompting and support) that

Interpret mathematical informational texts (with prompting and support) by

Construct mathematical informational texts (with prompting and support) that

Interpret scientific informational texts by

Construct scientific informational texts that

Interpret scientific explanations by

Construct scientific explanations that 

Interpret informational texts in social studies by

Construct informational texts in social studies that

Share ideas about one’s own and others’ lived experiences and previous learning

Connect stories with images and representations to add meaning

Ask questions about what others have shared

Recount and restate ideas 

Discuss how stories might end or next steps

Define and classify objects or concepts

Describe characteristics, patterns, or behavior

Describe parts and wholes

Sort, clarify, and summarize ideas

Summarize information from interaction with others and from learning experiences

Share initial thinking with others

Follow and describe cycles in diagrams, steps in procedures, or causes and effects 

Compare and contrast objects or concepts

Offer ideas and suggestions

Act on feedback to revise understandings of how or why something works

Ask questions about others’ opinions

Support own opinions with reasons

Clarify and elaborate ideas based on feedback

Defend change in one’s own thinking

Revise one’s own opinions based on new information

Identifying key details

Identifying characters, settings, and major events

Asking and answering questions about unknown words in a text

Orient audience to story

Describe story events

Identifying main topic and key details

Asking and answering questions about descriptions of familiar attributes and characteristics

Identifying word choices in relation to topic or content area

Introduce topic for audience

Describe details and facts 

Identifying concept or object  

Describing quantities and attributes

Define or classify concept or entity

Describe a concept or entity

Compare/contrast concepts or entities 

Determining what text is about  

Defining or classifying a concept or entity

Introduce others to a topic or entity

Provide details about an entity

Defining investigable questions or simple design problems based on observations and data about a phenomenon

Using information from observations to find patterns and to explain how or why a phenomenon occurs

Describe information from observations about a phenomenon

Relate how a series of events causes something to happen

Compare multiple solutions to a problem

Determining topic associated with a compelling or supporting question

Defining attributes and characteristics in relevant information

Introduce topic associated with a compelling or supporting question

Provide a detail about relevant information