ESL 071 - English as a Second Language (ESL) Level 1

• Apply active listening strategies to understand learned words and phrases in simple questions, statements, and high frequency commands as part of short conversations, explanations, narratives or instructions with limited linguistic complexity.
• Use a few simple formulas including non-verbal gestures to convey understanding and ask for repetition or clarification.
• Speak so others can understand by recalling and using simple learned phrases relating to personal information, basic objects or a limited number of activities and immediate needs related to familiar and predictable work or life-skills communication tasks.
• Apply simple strategies (gestures, eye contact, and simple requests) to monitor effectiveness of the communication and to meet the speaking purpose.
• Read with understanding by recognizing everyday words or word groups in short, simple text by decoding letter-sound correspondence, isolating and saying first and last sounds, naming pictures to isolate and say initial sounds, sounding out words by segmenting words into separate sounds and syllables, combining or blending sounds, recognizing simple rhyming word patterns, or recalling oral vocabulary and sight words.
• Demonstrate familiarity with concepts of print and letter shapes occurring in common vocabulary.
• Convey ideas in writing by following a highly structured plan (text model) to organize information about self and/or related to immediate needs in very simple structures such as lists or responses to prompts for everyday information.
• Write all letters of the alphabet and numbers and appropriately use simple everyday, highly familiar words (personal names, signatures, addresses), numbers (dates, phone #s, addresses, prices, etc.) and simple phrases to convey information, and make simple content changes and simple edits or handwriting, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization based on feedback from others.

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