WIDA English Language Proficiency Standards for ELLs WIDA

WIDA English Language Proficiency Standards for ELLs ®

WIDA English Language Development (ELD) Standards Standard 1: English language learners communicate for SOCIAL AND INSTRUCTIONAL purposes within the school setting (SIL) Standard 2: English language learners communicate information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of LANGUAGE ARTS (Lo. LA) Standard 3: English language learners communicate information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of MATHEMATICS (Lo. MA) Standard 4: English language learners communicate information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of SCIENCE (Lo. S) Standard 5: English language learners communicate information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of SOCIAL STUDIES (Lo. SS)

THE FOUR LANGUAGE DOMAINS Listening Speaking Reading Writing

THE WIDA ELP LEVELS 6 5 4 3 2 1 ENTERING BEGINNING DEVELOPING EXPANDING BRIDGING R E A C H I N G

CRITERIA FOR PERFORMANCE DEFINITIONS 1 2 ENTERING BEGINNING 3 DEVELOPING 4 5 EXPANDING BRIDGING Linguistic Complexity: The amount and quality of speech or writing for a given situation Vocabulary Usage: The specificity of words or phrases for a given context Language Control: The comprehensibility of the communication based on the amount and type of errors 6 R E A C H I N G

MODEL PERFORMANCE INDICATORS COMPONENTS (SCIENCE)

Key Vocabulary WIDA (World-class Instructional Design and Assessment) ELP (English Language Proficiency) TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of other Languages) MPIs (Model Performance Indicators) ACCESS (Assessing Comprehension and Communication in English State-to-State / Large-Scale annual ELP assessment) Language Function (Compare, Predict, Explain. . ) Transformation (a method to change Model Performance indicators) Domains (Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing) Strand (a series of indicators from Levels 1 -5 in one domain with the same topic.

RESOURCES World Class Instructional Design and Assessment: www. wida. us Center for Applied Linguistics: www. cal. org NCDPI https: //sites. google. com/dpi. nc. gov/ncels/home PSRC WIDA Workshop I Train the Trainer 2011