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From this browse and search tool, you will find the New York State (NYS) Learning Standards statements for all seven standard areas across grades PreK - 12. The NYS Learning Standards provides the foundation for the NYS Assessments and the local core curriculum.

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Standard Area - ESL: English as a Second Language

Standard - ESL1: Language for Information and Understanding
Students will listen, speak, read, and write in English for information and understanding.

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Key Idea - ESL1.1: Language for Information and Understanding
Students learning English as a second language will use English to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information for content area learning and personal use. They will develop and use skills and strategies appropriate to their level of English proficiency to collect data, facts, and ideas; discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts.

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Academic Level - ESL1.I.1: Intermediate

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Grade Level - ESL1.I.1: Grades 5 - 8

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Performance Indicator - ESL1.I.1L:
Students convey information and ideas through spoken and written language, using conventions and features of American English appropriate to audience and purpose.

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May Include - ESL1.I.I.1.L:
Spoken language features such as appropriate grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, intonation, and a wide variety of sentence structures. Such written language features include appropriate grammar, vocabulary, correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization, paragraphing, and a wide variety of sentence structures.