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WIDA Can Do Name Charts (9-12)

This chart allows educators to track students by their level of English language proficiency.

WIDA Standards Digital Explorer

This tool explores the WIDA English Language Development (ELD) Standards Framework. Explore by ELD Standards Statement and grade-level cluster or by...

WIDA Can Do Descriptors for Early Years

When programs are creating locally created English proficiency assessments, they can use these Can Do Descriptors for Early Year's proficiency levels...

WIDA's "Teaching in Pre-K" Webpage

WIDA's Teaching in Pre-K webpage has more resources for eductors. 

WIDA Guiding Principles of Early Language Development

These Guiding Principles of Early Language Development exemplify WIDA’s overarching and ever-present Can Do Philosophy. 

WIDA Standards Rollout Levels I & II Recap PD Session

IDOE hosts this session guiding participants through Levels I and II of the WIDA Standards Rollout Outline. This session is intended for any educator...

WIDA Standards Spotlight: Setting Language Expectations

Join the IDOE team for Part 3 of 3 sessions to provide additional resources and cheat sheets for content area teachers to support English Learners in...

Understanding and Planning with WIDA ACCESS Scores

Take a guided tour with Erica Sponberg through a WIDA ACCESS score report to understand its components. Then, the session will focus on actionable...

WIDA's Adopting a Language-Focused Approach to Transitions Across PreK-3 Settings

WIDA's resource is an overview of language-focused approaches to multilingual children’s transitions across programs, districts, schools and grade...

IDOE WIDA Standards 2020 Edition-Rollout Outline

This outline is intended to serve as a roadmap for Indiana schools as they incorporate the 2020 Edition of the WIDA Standards within daily...

WIDA Focus On Bulletin: Group Work for Content Learning

"This Focus Bulletin from WIDA provides answers to the following questions about English learner students: (1) Do students have opportunities to...

WIDA Focus On Bulletin: STEM Discourse: Strengthening Reasoning, Strengthening Language

Doing and Talking Mathematics and Science is a reasoning-centered, discourse-rich style of instruction based on a theory of language learning...

WIDA Doing and Talking Mathematics: A Teacher's Guide to Meaning-Making with English Learners

Doing and Talking Mathematics is a reasoning-centered, discourse-rich style of instruction based on a theory of language learning described as...

Leveraging WIDA Standards and IAS Connections to Support English Learners

This session illustrates how WIDA aligns with the 2023 IAS and discusses the hidden benefits of utilizing WIDA ELD standards within universal or core...

WIDA Standards Spotlight: Amplifying Academic Language

Part 1 of 3 sessions to provide additional resources and cheat sheets for content area teachers to support English Learners in the general education...

WIDA Standards Spotlight: Assessing Academic Language Growth

Part 2 of 3 sessions to provide additional resources and cheat sheets for content area teachers to support English Learners in the general education...

WIDA On-Demand Webinar on Key Language Uses

One of the components of the WIDA ELD Standards Framework is the Key Language Uses (KLUs). The KLUs summarize the most prominent language uses across...

WIDA Key Language Uses (KLUs)

WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition - Key Language Uses

WIDA Proficiency Level Descriptors (PLDs)

WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition - Proficiency Level Descriptors

WIDA Can Do Name Charts (6-8)

This chart allows educators to track students by their level of English language proficiency.