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What are the WIDA Standards?
The WIDA standards are the basis for the assessment and instruction of academic language proficiency for ELLs in Vermont and 18 other states.
The WIDA standards guide language instruction, differentiation, and assessment within the context of all academic content.
The WIDA Standards are also used to differentiate content for ELLs at different proficiency levels.
What are the WIDA 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 (LoLA)
Standard 3: English language learners communicate information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of MATHEMATICS (LoMA)
Standard 4: English language learners communicate information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of SCIENCE (LoS)
Standard 5: English language learners communicate information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of SOCIAL STUDIES (LoSS)
What are the WIDA Standards?The WIDA standards are expressed in Model Performance
Indicators (MPIs).MPIs are samples of language performance that can be
assessed in…1. Each standard or content area2. Each language domain (Listening, Speaking, Reading,
Writing)3. Each grade level cluster (Pre-K-K, 1-2,
3-5, 6-8, 9-12)
What are the WIDA Standards?
MPIMPI
What are the WIDA Standards?MPIs consist of 3 elements:
The Language Function
The Content Stem or Sample Topic
The Support or StrategyMatch vocabulary associated with
perimeter and area from graphics, symbols, or figures.
What are the WIDA Standards?MPI Element #1= Language FunctionMatch vocabulary
ListenPointMatchLocateSelectSortRespondIdentifyDraw/illustrateCircleName
RecallRetellDefineExplainSummarizeRole-playCompare/contrastDiscussExpressRepeatCopyTraceDefine
AnalyzeInterpretJustify/DefendElaborateCritiqueExplainNarrateConcludeConvinceReflectResolveInferCompose SynthesizeHypothesize
What are the WIDA Standards?MPI element #2= Content or TOPIC Stem
“Perimeter and Area”
For LA, MA, SS, and SCI these topics come from grade level topics from state standards.
There are ideas for different content in the WIDA Resource Guide
What are the WIDA Standards?Element#3 of the MPI= SUPPORT OR STRATEGY“from graphics, symbols, or figures.”
STRAND
What are the WIDA Standards?
TRANSFORMING THE MPIs
The MPIs in the WIDA Standards are a limited sample of indicators.
TRANSFORMATION is the method to create new indicators for classroom, district, and possibly even state wide use.
Match Vocabulary
Associated with perimeter and area
From Graphics, Symbols, or figures
Copy VocabularyDraw Vocabulary
Around line segmentsAssociated with the skeletal system
With a partnerIn a small groupFrom Graphics, Symbols, or figures in a small group
Addressing language within WIDALanguage features (vocabulary, grammar, text structure,
etc.) are not EXPLICIT in the WIDA MPIsLanguage elements come from Performance Definitions
and CAN-DO Descriptors, but these are general guides.Language can be interpreted from the MPIs based on the
language function and the task.Describe tables and graphs summarizing the weather. “What language (discourse, vocabulary, grammar,) do
students need to do this?”
Addressing the language within WIDALanguage can be interpreted from the MPIs
based on the language function and the task.
Explain information from tables and graphs about the last month’s weather. (Level 3 GRADE 3-5 SPEAKING)
“What language (vocabulary, grammar,discourse) do students need to do this?”
Addressing language within WIDALanguage can be put into the
TRANSFORMED MPI and addressed in more detail.
How much language you address will vary depending on role, training, time, etc.
Justify reasons for selections using comparative sentences with a partner and sentence frames