History
What is WIDA?
English Language Development, Early English Language Development, Spanish Language Development are
What is standards created by WIDA?
Represent WIDAs core beliefs about language development.
What are the Guiding Principles?
refers to the different ways in which language is used and how it varies in relation to the groups of users. For example, it refers to how students vary language when talking to their teacher versus when talking to each other.
What is register?
Academic language spans across these core academic areas
What are social and instructional, language arts, mathematics, science, and social science?
Created in response to the _____ requirements for ELs.
What is No Child Left Behind?
These Early English Language Development Standards were specifically developed to support the language development of students in this age group
What is 2.5-5.5?
represent the social, instructional, and academic language that students need to engage in peers, educators, and the curriculum?
refers to the theme of study and it will also have an impact on the language use. Climate change or multiplication of fractions are examples of this
What is Topic?
vocabulary usage, language forms and conventions, and linguistic complexity are examples of
What are the features of academic language?
WIDA was officially adopted by ISBE in
What is 2004?
These standards are developed to support EL in grades K-12.
What are English Language Development Standards?
Is the belief that all students bring cultural and linguistically diverse experiences to their learning.
What is Can Do Philosophy?
refer to the specific and particular types of text or discourse, which are typically socially accepted for particular purposes. For example, argumentation and explanation are considered examples of this
What is genre/text?
These to language domains are examples of receptive language and these are examples of productive language?
What are listening and reading for receptive language, and what are speaking and writing for productive language?
was first administered for identification and placement of ELs
What is W-APT?
What are Spanish Language Development Standards?
Is seen as a vehicle for communicating and learning within social cultural contexts - across different people, different learning environments - that influence how language is used.
What is academic language?
refers to the specific activity in which students are engaged and which elicits the processing or production of language. Examples could include anything from a conversation with a teacher between classes to a request for clarification in a literary circle with peers.
What is Task?
this arrangement helps students and teachers envision how language may look as a progression from one level of language proficiency to the next.
What are Model Performance Indicators or MPIs?
In 2007 this was created for EL students with significant disabilities.
What is Alternative Access?
Standards are organized in this matter...
What is Framework, ELD Standards, Grade Level Cluster, Language Domain, EL Proficiency, and MPIs?
Performance definitions represent
What are the various levels of language proficiency?
refer to the social, individual, and shared ___________ that students negotiate in different contexts. These may shift or overlap to maximize the knowledge, practices, and language from home and the various communities to which they belong
What is Identities?
inform teachers about the language students are able to understand and produce in the classroom.
What are can-do descriptors?