English Language Proficiency Standards and Resource Guide: Prekindergarten Through Grade 12, 2007 Edition

The WIDA Consortium's English Language Proficiency Standards are a curriculum and instruction planning tool and also serve as the basis for formative and large-scale assessment. WIDA's standards outline the progression of English language development and exemplify how to teach academic language within the context of content area instruction. WIDA's standards are used by PreKindergarten-Grade 12 educators throughout the world. They encompass: - Social and instructional language - the language of Language Arts - the language of Mathematics - the language of Science - the language of Social Studies The Resource Guide is included in this book. It serves as an introduction to using the Standards. The Resource Guide contains several tools WIDA has developed for use in the classroom. These include: - The Performance Definitions for WIDA's levels of language proficiency - The Speaking and Writing Rubrics for classroom assessment The PreK-Grade 12 CAN DO Descriptors