Resources/Recursos
Featured Resources
WIDA Webinar Recording: How to Use WIDA MODEL Test Scores to Inform Instructional Planning
WIDA Snapshot Series: Reading With Multilingual Learners
WIDA Focus Bulletin: Keeping the Conversation Going: The Role of Interaction in Language Development
All resources/Todos los recursos
Filter resources by:
Resources/Recursos
Designing Assessment Tasks for Kindergarten Multilingual Learners
This Focus Bulletin describes how WIDA approaches the design and development of language proficiency tests for kindergarten multilingual learners. We describe some of the design principles that underlie WIDA kindergarten tests, including the use of task models, scaffolds, and stopping rules. The aim of these design principles is to provide young multilingual learners the opportunity to show what they can do with their rapidly developing language skills in an assessment context.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased February 2026
What is WIDA Screener? (multiple languages)
Use this handout in intake centers or at parent-teacher conferences to help explain what WIDA Screener is and the process of screening students and identifying them as English learners. This family handout, available in multiple languages, includes a section for families to take notes and ask questions about English language services.
Note: This handout replaces the Explaining ELL Status and What Is Language Testing? flyers, which were retired July 1, 2025.
Resource DetailsReleased June 2025
WIDA Screener Interpretive Guide for Score Reports
The aim of this interpretive guide is to help educators and families better understand the scores reported for WIDA Screener Online, WIDA Screener Paper, WIDA Screener for Kindergarten and WIDA Alternate Screener.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased April 2025
Accessibility and Accommodations Manual
This accessibility manual was developed to guide the selection and administration of Test Administration Considerations, Universal Tools, and Accommodations for individual English Language Learners (ELLs) in order to produce valid assessment results.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased April 2025
WIDA Writing Rubric Kindergarten
Use this rubric to score writing responses on WIDA Screener for Kindergarten and WIDA MODEL for Kindergarten only.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased April 2025
WIDA Speaking Rubric Kindergarten
Use this rubric to score speaking responses on WIDA Screener for Kindergarten and WIDA MODEL for Kindergarten only.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased April 2025
Introducing WIDA Screener for Kindergarten
This WIDA Screener for Kindergarten eSummit session recording provides an in depth look at the test.
Resource DetailsReleased October 2024
English Learner Identification of Kindergarten Learners
This study examines decision makers, criteria and procedures of kindergarten English learner identification within a U.S. state, in view of WIDA Screener for Kindergarten.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased December 2023
WIDA All Year Long
Learn how WIDA is more than a test! Mr. Vega is a 6th grade EAL (English as an Additional Language) teacher at an international school who works with colleagues and families to support multilingual learners. Follow Mr. Vega all year long, as he focuses on what his students can do, using WIDA resources to collaborate and plan effective learning activities throughout the school year.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased September 2023
WIDA Screener for Kindergarten Accommodations Checklist
A checklist for tracking the accommodations a student receives on WIDA Screener for Kindergarten.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased June 2023
WIDA Screener for Kindergarten Proficiency Level Descriptors
This guide illustrates a continuum of language development for multilingual Kindergarten learners and describes what they can do across six levels of English language proficiency.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased February 2021