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    This document outlines four key language uses or genres: narratives, reports, explanations, and arguments. Narratives represent experiences through stories and histories, either real or imagined. Reports convey factual information about concepts, phenomena, or topics. Explanations give accounts for how or why things work through different types like sequential, causal, or cyclical explanations. Arguments justify claims using evidence and reasoning, seen in genres like arguments, reviews, or science arguments.

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    This document outlines four key language uses or genres: narratives, reports, explanations, and arguments. Narratives represent experiences through stories and histories, either real or imagined. Reports convey factual information about concepts, phenomena, or topics. Explanations give accounts for how or why things work through different types like sequential, causal, or cyclical explanations. Arguments justify claims using evidence and reasoning, seen in genres like arguments, reviews, or science arguments.

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    WIDA Key Language Uses

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    Key Language Uses As Genre Families

    Narratives
    Represent experiences Stories: short stories, fictional narratives

    NARRATE through stories and histories


    real or imagined
    Histories: autobiographies, biographies,
    empathetic biographies (imagine you are...),
    historical recounts

    Reports:
    Convey factual information Descriptive (All about sharks)

    INFORM about a concept or a


    phenomenon or a topic
    Classifying (Different classes of fish)
    Comparative (How are sharks similar or
    different from other fish)

    Explanations
    Sequential: how honey is made.
    Give account for how or Causal: why does it rain?

    EXPLAIN why things work. Cyclical: life cycle of a tree


    Factorial: what factors contribute to a tornado?
    Consequential: what are the consequences of
    westward expansion.

    Arguments
    Justify one's claims using Book Reviews, Theme Interpretation
    ARGUE evidence and reasoning. One or two-sided arguments
    Science and math arguements

    WIDA 2020

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