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A Case Study in Literacy Engagement with MLs
This video features Carmen, an elementary teacher in Minnesota. Even though she is required to teach from a prescribed curriculum, she still engages students in building personal connections to the text by connecting to students’ home literacy experiences and their emotions. Watch Carmen work with her small group of 2nd graders prior to reading a text on the lunar landing.
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Action Research: A catalyst for comprehensive teaching and learning in multilingual contexts
This WIDA Snapshot introduces classroom action research – when researchers and educators work together to address classroom challenges – by encouraging teachers to use their researcher voices to make meaningful contributions to the field, whether through collaborative or independent approaches.
Resource DetailsBuilding on Students’ Cultural and Linguistic Assets
Many literacy programs were not designed to effectively use multilingual students’ knowledge, skills, and strengths. This Snapshot is the first in a five-part series that provides insights from relevant research and suggests ways to engage the significant strengths that multilingual learners bring to their literacy development.
Resource DetailsDeveloping Oral Language Comprehension
Many literacy programs were not designed to effectively use multilingual students’ knowledge, skills, and strengths. This Snapshot is the second in a five-part series that provides insights from relevant research and suggests ways to engage the significant strengths that multilingual learners bring to their literacy development.
Resource DetailsDeveloping Reading Comprehension and Academic Literacies
Many literacy programs were not designed to effectively use multilingual students’ knowledge, skills, and strengths. This Snapshot is the fourth in a five-part series that provides insights from relevant research and suggests ways to engage the significant strengths that multilingual learners bring to their literacy development.
Resource DetailsEngaging with Families of Young Multilingual Children
This WIDA Snapshot is grounded in WIDA’s ABCs of Family Engagement and can be used to initiate reflection and conversation on local efforts to engage with families of multilingual children.
Resource DetailsExpanding and Strengthening Vocabulary and Word Knowledge
Many literacy programs were not designed to effectively use multilingual students’ knowledge, skills, and strengths. This Snapshot is the third in a five-part series that provides insights from relevant research and suggests ways to engage the significant strengths that multilingual learners bring to their literacy development.
Resource DetailsExpanding Reading Instruction with Multilingual Learners
Across the country, educators are working to improve students' reading, but many of the programs and approaches in use were not designed to take into account the unique needs and assets of multilingual learners. This Focus Bulletin shares classroom-ready resources, as well as examples and video from classrooms where educators are working to expand reading instruction to make it more inclusive and more effective for multilingual students.
Resource Details View Download NowFostering Equitable Literacy Learning
Many literacy programs were not designed to effectively use multilingual students’ knowledge, skills, and strengths. This Snapshot is the fifth in a five-part series that provides insights from relevant research and suggests ways to engage the significant strengths that multilingual learners bring to their literacy development.
Resource DetailsGathering 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 DetailsGuideposts for Reading Instruction with Multilingual Learners
This WIDA Webinar explores five critical, research-based aspects or “guideposts” of reading instruction for multilingual learners. An overview of the current research, strategies and tips for how it translates to classroom instruction are included for each guidepost.
Resource DetailsMultilingual Children and Their Families
This WIDA Snapshot provides an overview of who multilingual children are, the benefits of promoting home language(s), and initial ideas for developing reciprocal partnerships with multilingual families.
Resource DetailsPlanning for Languaging and Learning
In early care and education (ECE) settings, planning for multilingual children includes fostering the many ways we use language to make meaning of our environments, experiences, and learning. This WIDA Snapshot includes ideas for gathering information from families, community members, and classroom observations to use while planning.
Resource DetailsResearch-Based Guideposts for Equitable Literacy Instruction
This document offers a brief synthesis of research to shed light on and help make sense of the reading research and how it applies to multilingual learners. It focuses on five essential components, or guideposts, to guide equitable literacy instruction for multilingual learners.
Resource Details View Download NowUnderstanding the Proficiency Level Descriptors of Marco DALE
Los descriptores del desempeño lingüístico in Marco DALE provide guidance on how bi/multilingual students can develop language that they can interpret, interact and express in each of the communication modes (interpretative, interactive and expressive).
Resource DetailsWIDA Proficiency Level Descriptors: Informing Expectations and Scaffolding
This Snapshot will give K-12 educators ideas on how to apply the Proficiency Level Descriptors as they consider scaffolding practices that support multilingual students in meeting grade level content learning goals.
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