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Family Connections Through Home Languages (Pashto)
This flyer provides educators with information on how home languages play an important role in maintaining communication and relationships with family.
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This Simplified Chinese-language flyer provides educators with information on how home languages play an important role in maintaining communication and relationships with family.
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This Spanish language flyer provides educators with information on how home languages play an important role in maintaining communication and relationships with family.
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This Ukrainian-language flyer provides educators with information on how home languages play an important role in maintaining communication and relationships with family.
Resource Details View Download NowGathering and Reflecting on Families’ Language and Cultural Goals
This WIDA Snapshot focuses on how you can gather information and reflect on the language and cultural goals families have for their children.
Resource DetailsGathering Information: Become an Ethnographer
Become an ethnographer to observe and learn more about how, where, and why multilingual children play. This is the second resource of five intended to support PreK-3 educators to advocate for and incorporate joyful learning with multilingual children in their setting.
Resource Details View Download NowGathering Information: Become an Interviewer
Talking with others about play for multilingual children in your local context will help you grow your knowledge and be culturally and linguistically responsive as you integrate play into your teaching practice. This is the third resource of five intended to support PreK-3 educators to advocate for an incorporate joyful learning with multilingual children in their setting.
Resource Details View Download NowGathering Information: Become an Observer
Language-focused play observations focus on how a child is using language to make meaning and interact with others during play. Educators can use the information gathered from their observations to inform their teaching practices. This is the fourth resource of five intended to support PreK-3 educators to advocate for an incorporate joyful learning with multilingual children in their setting.
Resource Details View Download NowIdentifying Multilingual Learners with Specific Learning Disabilities: Data, Advice and Resources for School Teams
This Focus Bulletin offers expert advice, data on 2020-21 identification rates, data templates, common scenarios and resources for school teams identifying K-12 multilingual learners for Specific Learning Disabilities.
Originally published May 2017/Updated November 2023
Author: Lynn Shafer Willner
Illustrated Guiding Principles of Language Development: Printable Posters
These posters bring each of the 10 WIDA Guiding Principles of Language Development to life and can be used by educators in classrooms and with parents, families and community members. Each illustrated guiding principle is set up for printing on a color laser printer. The finished printed size is 8.5x11 inches.
Resource Details View Download NowIntroducing WIDA
WIDA builds the foundations of success one classroom at a time. We know what multilingual students and their educators can do! We continually establish the industry’s best practices, support student advocacy and offer second to none professional development opportunities for teachers. Watch how we work!
Resource DetailsLanguage-Focused Family Engagement
This WIDA Focus Bulletin introduces readers to the four pillars of Language-Focused Family Engagement and provides tools to help educators examine their local family engagement practices.
Published September 2018
Author: Delis Cuéllar, Alissa Blair, Lorena Mancilla
Language-Focused Planning Tool
How can PreK educators get started planning equitable learning opportunities for multilingual children? Use this language-focused planning tool to embed a language-focused approach to your planning.
Resource Details View Download NowLanguage-Focused Planning Tool: Annotated Guide
What should PreK educators consider as they adopt a language-focused approach to planning equitable learning opportunities for multilingual children? Use this Annotated Guide to explore guiding questions designed to help you use the Language-Focused Planning Tool.
Resource Details View Download NowLearning Language Every Day: Activities for Families (Arabic)
Activities to start conversations with children about their family, what they like to play, how they feel, what sounds they hear in their home or community, and the weather.
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Activities to start conversations with children about their family, what they like to play, how they feel, what sounds they hear in their home or community, and the weather.
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Activities to start conversations with children about their family, what they like to play, how they feel, what sounds they hear in their home or community, and the weather.
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Activities to start conversations with children about their family, what they like to play, how they feel, what sounds they hear in their home or community, and the weather.
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Activities to start conversations with children about their family, what they like to play, how they feel, what sounds they hear in their home or community, and the weather.
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Activities to start conversations with children about their family, what they like to play, how they feel, what sounds they hear in their home or community, and the weather.
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