The ELD Framework

Grades 9-12
ELD Standards that work in tandem with ELA and
Literacy CCSS
Part I
 Collaborative
1. Exchanging 2. Interacting with 3. Offering and 4. Adapting language
information and ideas others in written justifying opinions, choices to various
with others through oral English in various negotiating with and contexts (based on task,
collaborative communicative forms persuading others in purpose, audience, and
discussions on a range (print, communicative communicative text type)
of social and academic technology and exchanges
topics multimedia)
 Interpretive
5. Listening actively to 6. Reading closely 7. Evaluating how well 8. Analyzing how
spoken English in a literary and writers and speakers writers and speakers use
range of social and informational texts and use language to vocabulary and other
academic contexts viewing multimedia to support ideas and language resources for
determine how arguments with details specific purposes (to
meaning is conveyed or evidence depending explain, persuade,
explicitly and implicitly on modality, text type, entertain, etc.)
through language purpose, audience, depending on modality,
topic, and content area text type, purpose,
audience, topic, and
content area
 Productive
9. Expressing 10. Writing literary and 11. Justifying own 12. Selecting and
information and ideas in informational texts to arguments and applying varied and
formal oral present, describe, and evaluating others’ precise vocabulary and
presentations on explain ideas and arguments in writing other language
academic topics information, using resources to effectively
appropriate technology convey ideas
Part II
 Structuring Cohesive Texts
1. Understanding text 2. Understanding
structure Cohesion
Expanding and Enriching Ideas
3. Using verbs and Verb 4. Using nouns and noun 5. Modifying to add
Phrases phrases details
Connecting and Condensing Ideas
6. Connecting Ideas 7. Condensing Ideas