The Alternate ACCESS for ELLs Field Test is coming in 2023: Get your questions answered!
The 2020 Digital Explorer is a searchable database of the framework components.
A team of experts discuss their work examining research on multilingual students.
If you are looking for ACCESS checklists or Identification and Placement Guidance documents, please visit your member page from the Members/States dropdown.
This WIDA Snapshot focuses on how you can gather information and reflect on the language and cultural goals families have for their children.
Resource Details View Resource Download NowThis technical report aids WIDA Consortium members and stakeholders in producing imputed overall composite scale scores and proficiency levels for students who are missing scores in one or two domains due to a disability.
Published September 2020
Author: Narek Sahakyan
General advice to teachers who want to help prepare their students to take ACCESS for ELLs Paper.
Resource Details View Resource Download NowThese guiding principles of language development and learning exemplify WIDA’s overarching foundational beliefs and ever-present Can Do Philosophy. The guide includes research citations and defines WIDA's use of the term multilingual learner.
This guide, available in multiple languages, can be used as a resource for educators to share with parents and families.
Resource DetailsComplete list of references cited in the WIDA Guiding Principles of Language Development.
Resource Details View Resource Download NowThis report describes key components of high quality professional development for educators of English language learners.
Published May 2014
Author: Daniella Molle
This WIDA Focus Bulletin offers advise, facts, and resources for school teams when identifying English Language Learners with specific learning disabilities.
Published May 2017
Authors: Lynn Shafer Willner, Mira Monroe, Cynthia Lundgren, Julia Cortada
This illustrated booklet, available in multiple languages, brings each of the 10 WIDA Guiding Principles of Language Development to life and can be used by educators with parents, families and community members.
Resource DetailsThese posters bring each of the 10 WIDA Guiding Principles of Language Development to life and can be used by educators in classrooms and with parents, families and community members. Each illustrated guiding principle is set up for printing on a color laser printer. The finished printed size is 8.5x11 inches.
Resource Details View Resource Download NowThis paper finds that many educators see the WIDA English language proficiency standards as a tool that can guide them in differentiating instruction and supporting language development among English language learners.
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