Family Engagement
Resources to strengthen connections with families
Families play a key role in their children’s language development and possess a wealth of knowledge about their children’s language use in home and community environments. At WIDA, we recognize families as experts in their children’s language learning and development. Engaging with families to learn from them about their children’s language use and development is at the core of language-focused family engagement.
The resources listed below, in English and Spanish, provide professional learning for PreK-12 educators, as well as resources and ACCESS assessment materials that educators can share with families.
Grow Your Knowledge and Understanding
Explore resources to support your professional learning on topics related to language-focused family engagement. Read these resources independently or collaboratively with your peers.
- ABCs of Family Engagement
- Focus Bulletins
- Young Multilingual Children in... (parent research summaries for educators)
- WIDA Snapshots on family engagement
Explain EL Status and Language Testing
Find resources to help explain to families of multilingual learners key concepts, terms, and processes related to EL identification and language testing. Resources include parent-friendly guides, flyers and videos.
- Explaining ELL Status (flyer in several languages)
- What Is Language Testing? (flyer in several languages)
- What Is ACCESS for ELLs? (handout in several languages)
- What Is WIDA Alternate ACCESS (handout in several languages)
- ACCESS for ELLs: Understanding Your Child's Scores (guide in several languages)
- WIDA Alternate ACCESS: Understanding Your Child's Scores (guide in several languages)
Promote and Support Family Engagement
Find useful information and activities for families of multilingual learners that promote family engagement at home by highlighting various ways families support children’s language development.
- Learning Language Every Day: Activities for Families (packet in several languages)
- Family Connections Through Home Languages (flyer in several languages)
- Introducing WIDA (video)
Desarrolle su conocimiento y comprensión
Explore recursos para apoyar su capacitación profesional sobre temas relacionados con la participación familiar enfocada en el lenguaje. Lea estos recursos de forma independiente o en colaboración con sus colegas.
- WIDA Snapshots
- Los niños multilingües y sus familias
- Enlazándose con las familias de niños multilingües
- Recaudando y reflexionando sobre los objetivos lingüísticos y culturales de la familia
- Boletín de enfoque: Justicia social a través de políticas educativas
- Guía: Representación ilustrada de los Principios orientadores de WIDA para el desarrollo del lenguaje
Explique la clasificación de aprendiz del lenguaje inglés y las pruebas del lenguaje
Encuentre recursos que le ayudarán a explicarle a las familias de estudiantes multilingües los conceptos clave, términos y procesos relacionados con la identificación EL (“aprendiz del inglés,” por sus siglas en ese idioma) y las pruebas de lenguaje. Estos recursos incluyen guías, volantes y videos dirigidos a los padres.
Promueva y apoye la participación familiar
Encuentre información útil y actividades que promueven la participación en el hogar por familias de estudiantes multilingües, destacando varios modos en los que ellas apoyan el desarrollo del lenguaje de sus niños.