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WIDA Kindergarten Scoring Rubric for Speaking

Review this rubric before administering WIDA ACCESS for Kindergarten to understand the expectations for each speaking task.

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Released September 2025

WIDA Kindergarten Scoring Rubric for Writing

Use this rubric to assign a score to writing responses on WIDA ACCESS for Kindergarten.

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Released September 2025

WIDA Speaking Scoring Rubric Grades 1-12

Use this rubric to score speaking responses for WIDA ACCESS tests only.

Note: To score WIDA Screener and the WIDA ACCESS Braille Speaking test, refer to the WIDA Speaking Scoring Scale: Grades 1-12.

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Released August 2025

WIDA Writing Scoring Rubric Grades 1-12

Use this rubric to score writing responses for WIDA ACCESS tests only.

Note: To score WIDA Screener, refer to the WIDA Writing Scoring Scale: Grades 1-12.

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Released August 2025

ABCs of Family and Community Engagement

This guide includes an infographic that provides a visual representation of all six ABCs of Family and Community Engagement as well as look-fors to identify evidence of the ABCs in your context and ideas for future action.

For more context around this resource, please visit the Engaging Families and Communities page.

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Released August 2025

ABCs of Family and Community Engagement: Key Considerations for Centering Multilingual Voices

This guide offers a brief synthesis of literature and reflection questions for each of the six ABCs of Family and Community Engagement.

For more context around this resource, please visit the Engaging Families and Communities page.

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Released August 2025

WIDA Alternate Screener Participation Decision Tree

This guide helps IEP teams determine if a student should take the WIDA Alternate Screener assessment, or the WIDA Screener (Kindergarten, Online or Paper) assessment with accommodations.

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Released June 2025

WIDA Speaking Scoring Scale Grades 1-12

Use this scoring scale to score speaking responses for WIDA Screener tests and the WIDA ACCESS Braille Speaking test only.

Note: To score WIDA ACCESS tests, refer to the WIDA Speaking Scoring Rubric Grades 1–12.

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Released May 2025

WIDA Writing Scoring Scale Grades 1-12

Use this scoring scale to score writing responses for WIDA Screener tests only.

Note: To score writing responses for WIDA ACCESS tests, refer to the WIDA Writing Scoring Rubric Grades 1–12.

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Released May 2025

WIDA Speaking Rubric Kindergarten

Use this rubric to score speaking responses on WIDA Screener for Kindergarten and WIDA MODEL for Kindergarten only.

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Released May 2025

WIDA Writing Rubric Kindergarten

Use this rubric to score writing responses on WIDA Screener for Kindergarten and WIDA MODEL for Kindergarten only.

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Released May 2025

WIDA MODEL Speaking Rubric Grades 1-12

Rubrics are analytic scales that describe various aspects of spoken and written language to help educators recognize what speaking and writing sound and look like at various levels of English language proficiency. Use the WIDA MODEL Speaking Rubric to understand the scores students earn on the assessment, analyze student performance in the classroom, and plan ways to scaffold language learning. WIDA MODEL test administrators use the WIDA MODEL Speaking Rubric to score the Speaking domain test for WIDA MODEL Online and WIDA MODEL Paper.

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Released April 2025

WIDA Alternate ACCESS Interpretive Guide for Score Reports

This guide provides a comprehensive explanation of the types of scores reported by Alternate ACCESS for students in grades K-12.

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Released March 2025

WIDA MODEL Writing Rubric Grades 1-12

Rubrics are analytic scales that describe various aspects of spoken and written language to help educators recognize what speaking and writing sound and look like at various levels of English language proficiency. Use the WIDA MODEL Writing Rubric to understand the scores students earn on the assessment, analyze student performance in the classroom, and plan ways to scaffold language learning. WIDA MODEL test administrators use the WIDA MODEL Writing Rubric to assign a Writing Final score for WIDA MODEL Paper and WIDA MODEL Online.

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Released February 2025

Alternate Can Do Descriptors

The Alternate Can Do Descriptors (Alt Can Dos) are the first-ever Can Do Descriptors for multilingual learners with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The Alt Can Dos exemplify what students can do with communication and language at various stages of English language development.

The Alt Can Dos are arranged into the same grade-level clusters (K–2, 3–5, 6–8 and 9–12) as WIDA Alternate ACCESS. Within each grade-level cluster, the Alt Can Dos are organized by interpretive (listening and reading) and expressive (speaking and writing) communication modes for each WIDA ELD Standard and the five levels of English language development.

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Released October 2024

Marco DALE Digital Explorer

This website serves as a digital database of the Marco de los estándares del desarrollo auténtico del lenguaje español de WIDA (Marco DALE). It categorizes Language Expectations in two ways: by the Marco DALE standard statement and grade-level clusters, and by the Key Language Use and communication mode. Proficiency Level Descriptors (PLDs) can be explored by grade level (K-1 and 2-12) and communication mode.

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Released September 2024

Research-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.

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Released August 2024

Administrator Resource for the Implementation of the Marco DALE

The Administrator Resource for the Implementation of the Marco DALE is an all-English publication that provides key information that education administrators need to make decisions on use and implementation of this standards framework. In this resource, you will find the main framework and components of the Marco DALE along with policy and programming implications for bilingual programs. The Marco DALE is WIDA’s latest Spanish language development standards framework, and the full-length publication is presented in Spanish with English summaries at the end of each section.

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Released July 2024

Can Do Philosophy

This document articulates the WIDA Can Do Philosophy, which expresses the foundational belief that every learner brings valuable contributions to everything they do.

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Released May 2024

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.

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Released April 2024