GRADE:4th

A Blank Template for Drafting Strands of MPIs

ELD STANDARD: ELD Standard 5:English language learners communicate

information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of
Social Studies
EXAMPLE TOPIC:

CONNECTION: a. Construct a timeline of events showing the relationship of events in Colorado history with events in U.S and world history (DOK-12)

EXAMPLE CONTEXT FOR LANGUAGE USE: Students gather information about events throughout history so they can place them in
chronological order and verbally explain why they placed them in the order that they did.

COGNITIVE FUNCTION: Students at all levels of English proficiency will ANALYZE events in history and
determining their importance.
 DOMAIN: Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5
__________ Entering Emerging Developing Expanding Bridging
Language
Arts & In groups of 3- In groups of In groups of In pairs, Students will use
Social 5, students will 3-5, students 2-3, students students will databases and
Studies place pre- will given will use use databases historical articles to
created photos descriptions databases and and articles to analyze 10 events
and detached of events articles to analyze and independently
descriptions and create analyze events in place them in
and place them pictures that events in Colorado chronological order,
in depict the Colorado history. They orally state their
chronological description. history and will select importance, and
order. They will place at least five events, explain how one
then place five of them place them in event had an impact
them in in chronological on the following
chronologica chronological order, orally event.
l order and order. They explain what
explain why will then be the event is,
they drew able to orally and how this
the pictures explain the event led into
they did. event and the next one.
why the
placed the
events in the
order they
did.

TOPIC-RELATED LANGUAGE: Chronological, timeline, events, history