Speaking: Learners have the ability to organize and produce spoken language in routine and familiar situations with some control of grammar and intonation.

Listening: Learners can monitor comprehension, clarify purpose for communication and can understand simple phrases and sentences in context when spoken slowly with some repetition.

Reading: Learners can determine the purpose for reading by using pre-reading strategies, read common sight words, and understand sentence level reading. Learners can comprehend simple sentence level discourse with familiar vocabulary and frequent re-reading.

Writing: Learners can determine a purpose for writing, can write a simple sentences using familiar words and phrases to describe familiar objects, events, and experiences; using simple punctuation, and can demonstrate some control of basic grammar and spelling.

Speaking: Learners can organize information and ask simple questions related to survival needs and simple social interchanges with some control of basic grammar, intonation and pace.

Listening: Learners can listen actively, monitor comprehension of simple conversations with support of repetitions and slow rate of speech and use appropriate listening strategies.

Reading: Learners can use reading strategies that include previewing, viewing, and predicting and can read material in familiar contexts when vocabulary is controlled.

Writing: Learners can produce simple written texts, motes, or messages that are organized and present information to serve the purpose, context, using complete sentences with basic grammar structures (present and past tense) and use correct punctuation.

Speaking: Learners can express basic needs and can engage in social conversations in an organized way to address the reason for communicating and use some strategies to monitor the conversation. Conversations can include limited descriptions, concrete terms, and more complex grammar structures (passive voice, conditional).

Listening: Learners can monitor comprehension, use listening strategies when participating in a conversation or completing a simple task and can understand learned and new phrases in familiar context.

Reading: Learners can use reading strategies and context clues to comprehend and analyze clearly organized texts and can reflect on the meaning of the text and combine new knowledge with prior knowledge.

Writing: Learners can organize, convey, and revise ideas in simple paragraphs in familiar contexts with control of basic grammar structures, spelling and punctuation.

Speaking: Learners can organize thoughts, provide information, and monitor communication in a conversation on a variety of day to-day subjects with firm control of basic grammar, and are able to express thoughts creatively.

Listening: Learners can comprehend conversations on day-to-day subjects that are supported by repeating, restating, and adjusting rate of speech and can incorporate information from listening with prior knowledge.

Reading: Learners can read narrative prose and descriptive essays if the topic or context is familiar and analyze the meaning or purpose. Learners can use appropriate reading strategies, context clues and inference skills with familiar materials.

Writing: Learners can produce and edit well-developed descriptive and narrative paragraphs using basic punctuation and basic and complex grammar structures.

Speaking: Learners can organize thoughts and converse clearly on a variety of subjects using basic grammar, appropriate word choice, register, and pace and are able to express thoughts clearly and creatively using appropriate monitoring strategies.

Listening: Learners can comprehend conversations on a variety of subjects using monitoring strategies and incorporating new knowledge with prior knowledge.

Reading: Learners can read, comprehend, and analyze narrative prose and descriptive essays applying appropriate reading strategies, comprehension strategies and prior knowledge.

Writing: Learners can produce well-developed descriptive and narrative essays that include the mastery of punctuation and grammar structures and can edit and revise to improve communication.