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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.

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Building 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. 

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Developing 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. 

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Developing 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. 

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Engaging 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.

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Enlazándose con las familias de niños multilingües

Este resumen informativo está basado en el ABC (por sus siglas en inglés) de la participación familiar de WIDA y puede usarlo para iniciar la reflexión y la conversación sobre los esfuerzos locales para el enlace con las familias de niños multilingües.

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Expanding 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. 

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Fostering 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. 

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Gathering 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.

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Investigación-acción: Un catalizador para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje integral en contextos multilingües

Este resumen informativo de WIDA presenta la Investigación-acción — un concepto que resalta el trabajo mutuo entre investigadores y educadores para abordar los desafíos en el salón de clases — lo que alienta a los maestros a utilizar sus voces para hacer contribuciones significativas al campo, ya sea a través de esfuerzos colaborativos o independientes.

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La pracademia: La intersección entre el multilingüismo, el translenguaje el transculturalismo

Este resumen de investigación aborda la intersección entre la pracademia, el multilingüismo, el translingüismo y el transculturalismo. Destaca cómo la experiencia dual única de los pracadémicos les prepara para enfrentar los desafíos reales de diversos contextos educativos y examinar los matices de las identidades lingüísticas y culturales superpuestas. Además, presenta diversas voces del campo, destacando sus pensamientos sobre el tema y el impacto que la pracademia tiene en sus contextos, vidas profesionales y experiencias.

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Los niños multilingües y sus familias

Este resumen informativo proporciona un resumen de quiénes son los niños multilingües, los beneficios de promover las lenguas del hogar e ideas iniciales para desarrollar asociaciones recíprocas con familias multilingües.

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Multilingual 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.

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Planning 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.

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Al abordar la intersección de la práctica y la academia, se alienta a los docentes a involucrarse más en la implementación de enfoques basados en evidencia y a familiarizarse más con la investigación que informa directamente sus prácticas en el salón de clase. Participar en la pracademia permite a los docentes resaltar sus experiencias de enseñanza y promueve la inclusión de su voz como pracademico dentro del contexto educativo.

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Recaudando y reflexionando sobre los objetivos lingüísticos y culturales de las familias

Este resumen informativo se enfoca en cómo puede recaudar información y reflexionar sobre los objetivos lingüísticos y culturales que las familias tienen para sus hijos/as.

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WIDA 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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