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WIDA 2019 Annual Conference
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Boletín de enfoque: la participación familiar
Family Engagement
Standards and Instructional Practices
Professional Learning
Research
Early Years
El objetivo de este boletín es generar consciencia sobre la necesidad de contar con prácticas de participación familiar que tengan en cuenta tanto el logro académico como el desarrollo lingüístico del alumno. Es por ello que decidimos dirigir este boletín a dos diferentes audiencias: padres de familias y educadores. Le recomendamos a los equipos de padres de familia y educadores que utilicen este recurso como herramienta para apoyar las prácticas locales de participación familiar.
Focus On Early Years: Assets-Based, Language-Focused Family Engagement for Dual Language Learners
Standards and Instructional Practices
Research
Professional Learning
Early Years
Family Engagement
This WIDA Focus Bulletin explores multiple ways to effectively engage families of DLLs in their children’s linguistic and cultural development.
Focus On Early Years: Observing Language Use to Promote Dual-Language Development
Standards and Instructional Practices
Research
Professional Learning
Early Years
In this WIDA Focus Bulletin, we explore some ways that ECE practitioners in high-quality programs observe and document DLLs’ receptive and expressive language development and use.
Focus On Early Years: Planning for Dual-Language Development and Learning
Standards and Instructional Practices
Research
Professional Learning
Early Years
In this WIDA Focus Bulletin, we explore ways that early care and education (ECE) practitioners use what they know about DLLs and their families to make intentional decisions about development and learning.
Focus On Early Years: Supporting Dual-Language Learners
Research
Standards and Instructional Practices
Professional Learning
Early Years
Our goal in this WIDA Focus Bulletin is to provide suggestions for effective practices in supporting and instructing young DLLs.
Focus On Early Years: Supporting Early Literacy Development
Standards and Instructional Practices
Research
Professional Learning
Early Years
This WIDA Focus Bulletin explores different ways for “growing” oral language while supporting early literacy development of DLLs.
The Early Years: Dual-Language Learners
Standards and Instructional Practices
Research
Professional Learning
Early Years
Our goal in this WIDA Focus Bulletin is to celebrate the cultural and linguistic diversity of our youngest language learners, their families, and the programs that serve them.