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For elementary students, expectations may also be modified to represent knowledge and skills from a different grade level. In such cases, the grade level must be specified after the expectation.
Example
The expectations for a Grade 4 student whose modified expectations in mathematics and language represent knowledge and skills at a different grade level might be expressed as follows:
• “[The student] will solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of whole numbers to18, using a variety of mental strategies. (Grade 2 expectation) [the Grade 4 expectation requires students to use a variety of mental strategies to add and subtract ‘two-digit whole numbers’ rather than ‘whole numbers
to 18’]”
• “[The student] will improve her ability to read unfamiliar words using cues such as familiar words that build on her prior knowledge of language, and blending and segmenting of individual sounds
in words. (Grade 1 expectation) [the Grade 4 expectation requires students to use similar and more complex types of cues to ‘predict the meaning of and rapidly solve unfamiliar words’ rather than ‘improve [their] ability to read unfamiliar words’]”
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