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ACCESS for ELLs: Understanding Your Child's Scores (multiple languages)
Send this flyer home with students along with the ACCESS for ELLs Individual Student Report. This flyer explains each piece of score information included in the report. Use this guide, available in several languages, to help parents understand what scores mean and how they are used.
Resource DetailsAlternate ACCESS for ELLs: Understanding Your Child's Scores (multiple languages)
Send this flyer home with students along with the Alternate ACCESS Individual Student Report. This flyer explains each piece of score information included in the report. Use this guide, available in multiple languages, to help parents understand what scores mean and how they are used.
Resource DetailsCurricular Considerations: Introduction to Collaborating Around the 2020 Edition
The WIDA ELD Standards Framework, 2020 Edition brings new practical ways for all educators working with multilingual learners to conceptualize the development of content and language together through asset-based, equitable, and rigorous approaches in curricular design. This session will encourage participants to think about what collaboration looks like in these contexts.
Resource DetailsDesarrollando el español: Authentic Spanish language development with Marco DALE
This webinar showcases the components of Marco de los estándares del desarrollo auténtico del lenguaje español de WIDA (Marco DALE).
Resource DetailsExploring the Long-term English Learner Population Across 15 WIDA States
This research report summarizes findings from a recent WIDA study exploring the potential long-term English learner (LTEL) population across 15 geographically-representative WIDA member states during the period 2009-10 through 2014-15. The findings highlight a continuing need for research that rejects an overly simplistic understanding of the LTEL designation. Additionally, future research should more carefully examine how educational systems, practices, and policies structure the experiences and diverse trajectories of students identified as LTELs.
Published October 2018
Authors: Narek Sarakyan and Sarah Ryan
Introducing WIDA Screener for Kindergarten
This WIDA Screener for Kindergarten eSummit session recording provides an in depth look at the test.
Resource DetailsIntroduction to the 2020 Edition
Members of the WIDA standards development team share a high-level overview of what’s new and exciting in the WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition. Intended for SEA representatives, district leaders, and EL and content teachers.
Resource DetailsIntroduction to the Updated Key Language Uses
One of the components of the WIDA ELD Standards Framework is the Key Language Uses (KLUs). The KLUs summarize the most prominent language uses across disciplines, helping educators organize and prioritize curriculum and instruction. Learn about the updated KLUs – Inform, Narrate, Explain and Argue.
Resource DetailsLong-term English Learners across 15 WIDA States
This research brief presents findings and policy implications from a recent research study exploring the so-called long-term English learner (LTEL) population across WIDA states. The findings highlight a continuing need for research that rejects an overly simplistic understanding of the LTEL designation. The next phase of this research will use student- and school-level data from three states to examine how individual and school factors can affect the diverse trajectories of ELs’ language development over time.
Published January 2019
Resource Details View Download NowPutting It All Together: Next Steps for Using the 2020 Edition
In this webinar, the WIDA standards development team discusses and models the tools, provided in the 2020 Edition, for initiating critical conversations with school leaders and colleagues.
Resource DetailsUnderstanding Language Proficiency to Develop Language Goals, Grades 6-12
These lesson plans (with accompanying worksheets) guide students in understanding language proficiency, determining their own strengths, and setting goals for language development. Designed for students 6-12.
Resource Details View Download NowUnderstanding Language Proficiency to Develop Language Goals, Grades K-5
These lesson plans (with accompanying worksheets) guide students in understanding language proficiency, determining their own strengths, and setting goals for language development. Designed for K-5 students.
Resource Details View Download NowUnderstanding WIDA MODEL Online Scale Scores in Terms of CEFR Levels
WIDA research findings show that WIDA MODEL Online scale scores can be interpreted in terms of Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) levels. Use the tables in this document to look up students' MODEL scale scores and see the corresponding CEFR levels for each domain.
Resource Details View Download NowWIDA MODEL and the CEFR
WIDA conducted a research study that linked WIDA MODEL Online scale scores to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). This video discusses the research study, the findings, and the Understanding WIDA MODEL Online Scale Scores in Terms of CEFR Levels tool.
Resource DetailsWIDA MODEL Interpretive Guide for Score Reports
This guide is meant to assist stakeholders in understanding the scores reported for WIDA MODEL test takers in Kindergarten through Grade 12.
Resource Details View Download NowWIDA Spanish Language Development Standards, 2013 Edition
The WIDA Spanish Language Development (SLD) Standards, Kindergarten – Grade 12, 2013 Edition is a resource for planning and implementing language instruction and assessment for emergent bilinguals who are learning academic content in Spanish. This publication will also offer information on where the WIDA SLD Standards fit within the larger WIDA system for instruction and assessment and how to use the SLD standards to have a broader understanding of the linguistic profile of students.
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