WIDA

WIDA site-- This site has TONS of information. Some is included here.

WIDA Webinar ~ 2 hours long, but gives lots of useful information and guided practice

Language Functions and Forms needed for proficiency:

Expressing needs and likes Indirect/ direct object, subject/ verb agreement, pronouns Describing people, places, and things Nouns, pronouns, adjectives

Describing spatial and temporal relations Prepositional phrases

Describing actions Present progressive tense, adverbs

Retelling/relating past events Past tense verbs, perfect aspect (present and past)

Making predictions Verbs: future tense, conditional mode

Asking Informational Questions Verbs and verb phrases in questions

Asking Clarifying Questions Questions with increasing specificity

Expressing and Supporting Opinions Sentence structure, modals (will, can, may, shall) Comparing Adjectives and conjunctions, comparatives, superlatives, adverbs

Contrasting Comparative adjectives

Summarizing Increasingly complex sentences with increasingly specific vocabulary

Persuading Verb forms Literary

Analysis Sentence structure, specific vocabulary

Cause and Effect Verb forms

Drawing Conclusions Comparative adjective

Defining Nouns, abstract nouns, pronouns, and adjectives

Explaining Verb forms, indicative verb, declarative sentences, complex sentences, adverbs of manner

Generalizing Common, collective and abstract nouns, verb forms, nominalizations

Evaluating Complex sentences; increasing specificity of nouns, verbs, and adjectives; correlative conjunctions Interpreting Language of propaganda, complex sentences, nominalizations