Language When writing and speaking, individuals ready to exit this level are able to correctly use regular and irregular nouns and verbs, comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and coordinating and subordinating conjunctions. When writing simple, compound and complex sentences, individuals use correct subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement. They also use correct capitalization, ending punctuation, commas, and apostrophes to form contractions and possessives. They also are able to spell words with conventional patterns and suffixes. They are able to use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word patterns, ending rules) in writing words. In response to prompts, they are able to produce, expand, and rearrange simple and compound sentences. Individuals are able to determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words in level- appropriate complex texts, including academic words, by applying their knowledge of roots and affixes, as well as sentence-level context. They are able to distinguish literal from non-literal meaning of words, and shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty (e.g., knew, believed, wondered, suspected). They are able to demonstrate understanding of and use general academic words that signal spatial and temporal relationships.
NRS Descriptor Segment
GSE Skill
GSE Learning Objective
GSE Level
CEFR Level
When writing and speaking, individuals ready to exit this level are able to correctly use regular and irregular nouns and verbs, comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and coordinating and subordinating conjunctions. When writing simple, compound and complex sentences, individuals use correct subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
Grammar
Can use regular nouns in the plural form.
24
A1 (22-29)
Can use common irregular nouns in the plural form.
25
A1 (22-29)
Can make comparisons with 'more' + longer adjectives.
36
A2+ (36-42)
Can make comparisons with regular shorter adjectives + '-er'.
38
A2+ (36-42)
Can form irregular superlatives of adjectives and adverbs such as 'best', 'worst'.
38
A2+ (36-42)
Can use all forms of comparatives and superlatives of adjectives.
40
A2+ (36-42)
Can use 'before/after' as conjunctions with complement clauses.
40
A2+ (36-42)
Alignment of the National Reporting System for Adult Education Standards to the Global Scale of English | 29
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