Level+5

Level 5- The Advanced Stage
Level 5 Stage: Advanced Duration: >3 years

**Student Behaviors:**
 * Paraphraeses/ synthesizes content material
 * Generates discussions
 * Socially comfortable
 * Understands and make plays on words
 * Reads/writes at grade level

A student at the advanced stage comprehends and discusses content area material with relative ease. A quick check for this stage is to ask student to read a short selection from a grade level text and write a brief synopsis. That ability to paraphrase and synthesize content area material distinguishes the advanced student. The students appear socially comfortable within a group of native speakers/peers. A good sign of comprehension is laughter at appropriate times. The assumption that the behaviors of a student at the advanced stage are essentially the same as those of a native speaker. An advanced student may still have gaps in specialized areas, for example, the advanced student might feel out of place in certain culturally embedded situations such as knowing  how to behave on an obscure holiday. This can easily be addressed with a brief word of explanation since the student  is fluent in English.

**Key Strategies:**
 * <span style="color: #ffec52; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Group projects
 * <span style="color: #ffec52; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Presentations
 * <span style="color: #ffec52; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Taking time to paraphrase textual materials
 * <span style="color: #ffec52; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Summarize thoughts
 * <span style="color: #ffec52; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Study figurative language and plays on words
 * <span style="color: #ffec52; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Advanced organizers for lectures and content reading to help clarify difficult concepts.


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ELD Behavioral Indicators across Reading/language Arts Domain **

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Listening:
 * Paraphrase content material
 * Understand and makes plays on words [[image:spring13ell/c2fb102d5987610545be59c7364e0c70.jpg align="right"]]
 * Poses higher-order questions

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">Speaking ** : **
 * Penerates discussions
 * Socially comfortable
 * Formulates wordplay

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading:
 * Reads at grade level

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Writing:
 * Writes at grade level