Grades 9-12

Other Maryland WIDA English Language Development Standards sets

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• Grade 1
• Grades 2-3
• Grades 4-5
• Grades 6-8

Identifying themes or central ideas that develop over the course of a textELD-LA.9-12.Narrate.Interpretive

Analyzing how author choices about character attributes and actions relate to story elements (setting, event sequences, and context)ELD-LA.9-12.Narrate.Interpretive

Evaluating the impact of specific word choices on meaning, tone, and explicit vs. implicit points of viewELD-LA.9-12.Narrate.Interpretive

Orient audience to context and one or multiple point(s) of viewELD-LA.9-12.Narrate.Expressive

Develop and describe characters and their relationships over a progression of experiences or events ELD-LA.9-12.Narrate.Expressive

Develop story, advancing the plot and themes with complications and resolutions, time and event sequencesELD-LA.9-12.Narrate.Expressive

Engage and adjust for audience ELD-LA.9-12.Narrate.Expressive

Identifying and/or summarizing central ideasELD-LA.9-12.Inform.Interpretive

Analyzing descriptions and inferences in textual evidence for key attributes, qualities, characteristics, activities, and conceptual relationshipsELD-LA.9-12.Inform.Interpretive

Evaluating cumulative impact and refinement of author’s key word choices over the course of textELD-LA.9-12.Inform.Interpretive

Introduce and define topic and/or entity for audienceELD-LA.9-12.Inform.Expressive

Establish an objective or neutral stanceELD-LA.9-12.Inform.Expressive

Add precision, details, and clarity about complex attributes, qualities, characteristics, activities, and conceptual relationshipsELD-LA.9-12.Inform.Expressive

Develop coherence and cohesion throughout textELD-LA.9-12.Inform.Expressive

Identifying and summarizing central ideas of primary or secondary sourcesELD-LA.9-12.Argue.Interpretive

Analyzing use of rhetoric and details to advance point of view or purposeELD-LA.9-12.Argue.Interpretive

Evaluating and corroborating relevance and sufficiency of evidence as well as validity of reasoning to support claims  ELD-LA.9-12.Argue.Interpretive

Introduce and develop precise claims and address counterclaimsELD-LA.9-12.Argue.Expressive

Support claims and refute counterclaims with valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence ELD-LA.9-12.Argue.Expressive

Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone  ELD-LA.9-12.Argue.Expressive

Logically organize claims, counterclaims, reasons, and evidence; offer a conclusion with recommendationsELD-LA.9-12.Argue.Expressive

Identifying concept or entityELD-MA.9-12.Explain.Interpretive

Analyzing data and owning problem-solving approachesELD-MA.9-12.Explain.Interpretive

Evaluating rationales, models, and/or interpretations based on evidence and mathematical principlesELD-MA.9-12.Explain.Interpretive

Introduce mathematical concept or entityELD-MA.9-12.Explain.Expressive

Share solutions with othersELD-MA.9-12.Explain.Expressive

Describe data and/or approach used to solve a problemELD-MA.9-12.Explain.Expressive

State reasoning used to generate own or alternate solutionsELD-MA.9-12.Explain.Expressive

Comparing conjectures with previously established results and stated assumptionsELD-MA .9-12 .Argue .Interpretive

Distinguishing correct from flawed logicELD-MA .9-12 .Argue .Interpretive

Evaluating relationships among evidence and mathematical principles to create generalizationsELD-MA .9-12 .Argue .Interpretive

Create precise conjecture, using definitions, previously established results, and stated assumptions ELD-MA.9-12.Argue.Expressive

Generalize logical relationships across casesELD-MA.9-12.Argue.Expressive

Justify (and refute) conclusions with evidence and mathematical principlesELD-MA.9-12.Argue.Expressive

Evaluate and extend others’ argumentsELD-MA.9-12.Argue.Expressive

Defining investigable questions or problems based on observations, information, and/or data about a phenomenonELD-SC.9-12.Explain.Interpretive

Paraphrasing central ideas in complex evidence, concepts, processes, and information to help explain how or why a phenomenon occursELD-SC.9-12.Explain.Interpretive

Evaluating the extent to which reasoning, theory and/or models link evidence to claims and support conclusionsELD-SC.9-12.Explain.Interpretive

Describe reliable and valid evidence from multiple sources about a phenomenonELD-SC.9-12.Explain.Expressive

Establish neutral or objective stance in how results are communicatedELD-SC.9-12.Explain.Expressive

Develop reasoning to illustrate and/ or predict the relationships between variables in a system or between components of a systemELD-SC.9-12.Explain.Expressive

Summarize and refine solutions referencing scientific knowledge, evidence, criteria, and/or trade-offsELD-SC.9-12.Explain.Expressive

Identifying appropriate and sufficient evidence from data, models, and/or information from investigations of a phenomenon or design solutionsELD-SC.9-12.Argue.Interpretive

Comparing reasoning and claims based on evidence from competing arguments or design solutionsELD-SC.9-12.Argue.Interpretive

Evaluating currently accepted explanations, new evidence, limitations (trade-offs), constraints, and ethical issuesELD-SC.9-12.Argue.Interpretive

Introduce and contextualize topic/ phenomenon in current scientific or historical episodes in scienceELD-SC.9-12.Argue.Expressive

Defend or refute a claim based on data and evidenceELD-SC.9-12.Argue.Expressive

Establish and maintain an appropriate tone and stance (neutral/objective or biased/subjective)ELD-SC.9-12.Argue.Expressive

Signal logical relationships among reasoning, evidence, data, and/or models when making and defending a claim, counterclaim, and/or rebuttalELD-SC.9-12.Argue.Expressive

Determining multiple types of sources, points of view in sources, and potential uses of sources for answering compelling and supporting questions about phenomena or eventsELD-SS.9-12.Explain.Interpretive

Analyzing sources for logical relationships among contributing factors, causes, or related conceptsELD-SS.9-12.Explain.Interpretive

Evaluating experts’ points of agreement and disagreement based on their consistency with explanation given its purposeELD-SS.9-12.Explain.Interpretive

Introduce and contextualize multiple phenomena or events ELD-SS.9-12.Explain.Expressive

Establish perspective for communicating intended and unintended outcomes, consequences, or documentationELD-SS.9-12.Explain.Expressive

Develop sound reasoning, sequences with linear and nonlinear relationships, evidence, and details with significant and pertinent information, acknowledging strengths and weaknessesELD-SS.9-12.Explain.Expressive

Generalize experts’ points of agreement and disagreement about multiple, complex causes and effects of developments or eventsELD-SS.9-12.Explain.Expressive

Identifying topic and purpose (argue in favor or against a position, present a balanced interpretation, challenge perspective)ELD-SS.9-12.Argue.Interpretive

Analyzing relevant information to support and/or revise claims with reliable and valid evidence from multiple sourcesELD-SS.9-12.Argue.Interpretive

Evaluating credibility, accuracy, and relevancy of source based on expert perspectivesELD-SS.9-12.Argue.Interpretive

Introduce and contextualize topicELD-SS.9-12.Argue.Expressive

Select relevant information to support precise and knowledgeable claims with evidence from multiple sourcesELD-SS.9-12.Argue.Expressive

Establish perspectiveELD-SS.9-12.Argue.Expressive

Show relationships between claims and counterclaims, differences in perspectives, evidence, and reasoningELD-SS.9-12.Argue.Expressive