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WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition
WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition
This educator's practice guide offers recommendations for teaching English learners in elementary and middle school classrooms. These evidence based practices are intended to guild English language proficiency while also building literacy and numeracy skills and content knowledge in all areas.
This IES guide is designed to help building and district administrators identify the learning needs of elementary school teachers in implementing research-based practices for English learner students. The guide includes a teacher self-reflection tool and a classroom observation tool. This ten step process can help leaders determine the professional learning needed for classroom teachers.
The WIDA Can Do Descriptors provide examples of what language learners can do at various stages of English language development in listening, speaking, reading and writing.
The WIDA Family Engagement page provides resources for professional learning around language focused family engagement, identification and assessment information for families and ways to promote engagement at home.
Book Recommendations
Book Recommendations
The 99 ideas and activities included in this book have been shown to be particularly effective with English Learners. When paired with SIOP training, this book is a great resource for every classroom teacher.
No More Low Expectations for English Learners describes best practices for supporting English Learners academic achievement as well as multiple strategies for both language acquisition and content-area learning.
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