WIDA Screener for Kindergarten

WIDA Screener for Kindergarten

EL Eligibility Criteria: Students in Kindergarten -1st Semester Grade 1 Beginning in the 2021- 2022 school year, only the new WIDA Screener for Kindergarten will be used to screen potential ELs enrolling in Kindergarten and 1st Semester Grade 1. Test administrators must enter the student’s score results into the WIDA Score Calculator to generate a WIDA ELP Screener Score Report of the English language proficiency level indicated by the student’s responses.

For students enrolling in 1st Semester Kindergarten:

• Administer only the Listening and Speaking sections of the new WIDA Screener for Kindergarten.

• If the student’s Oral Language Proficiency (Listening + Speaking) Proficiency Level is < 5.0, the student qualifies and is identified as an English Learner.

• If the student’s Oral Language Proficiency (Listening + Speaking) Proficiency Level is ≥ 5.0, the student Does Not Qualify (DNQ) as an English Learner. In the EL Tab in Infinite Campus, the Program Status will need to be Not EL.

For students enrolling in 2nd semester Kindergarten to 1st semester Grade 1:

• Administer all four components of WIDA Screener for Kindergarten: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing.

• If the student’s Overall Composite Proficiency Level score is < 5.0, the student qualifies and is identified as an English Learner in Infinite Campus.

• If the student’s Overall Composite Proficiency Level score is ≥ 5.0, the student Does Not Qualify (DNQ) as an English Learner. In the EL Tab in Infinite Campus, the Program Status is coded as “Not EL.”

Additional guidance can be found in the WIDA Screener for Kindergarten Checklist.

Note: Although WIDA recommends that Kindergarten Screener proficiency level scores be considered as one of multiple data sources to inform EL identification, Georgia state procedures only use WIDA Screener scores for EL identification purposes. Since 2018, local school systems may not use other evidence sources.

The K-WAPT and K MODEL have been discontinued per GaDOE.