WIDA

English Language Development Standards

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WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework Grade K

WIDA ELD Standard 1: Social and Instructional Language

ELD-SI.K-3.Narrate

Multilingual learners will...

  • Share ideas about one’s own and others’ lived experiences and previous learning
  • Connect stories with images and representations to add meaning
  • Ask questions about what others have shared
  • Recount and restate ideas
  • Discuss how stories might end or next steps
  • Online Lessons In most online Course activities, learners have the opportunity to use language and functions to meet this standard.
  • Teacher's Guide In many Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Workbook In some Workbook and K-2 Workbook activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Supplemental Reading In some Supplemental Reading activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.

ELD-SI.K-3.Inform

Multilingual learners will...

  • Define and classify objects or concepts
  • Describe characteristics, patterns, or behavior
  • Describe parts and wholes
  • Sort, clarify, and summarize ideas
  • Summarize information from interaction with others and from learning experiences
  • Online Lessons In most online Course activities, learners have the opportunity to use language and functions to meet this standard.
  • Teacher's Guide In many Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Workbook In some Workbook activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Supplemental Reading In some Supplemental Reading activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.

ELD-SI.K-3.Explain

Multilingual learners will...

  • Share initial thinking with others
  • Follow and describe cycles in diagrams, steps in procedures, or causes and effects
  • Compare and contrast objects or concepts
  • Offer ideas and suggestions
  • Act on feedback to revise understandings of how or why something works
  • Online Lessons In most online Course activities, learners have the opportunity to use language and functions to meet this standard.
  • Teacher's Guide In many Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Workbook In some Workbook activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Supplemental Reading In some Supplemental Reading activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.

ELD-SI.K-3.Argue

Multilingual learners will...

  • Ask questions about others’ opinions
  • Support own opinions with reasons
  • Clarify and elaborate ideas based on feedback
  • Defend change in one’s own thinking
  • Revise one’s own opinions based on new information
  • Online Lessons In most online Course activities, learners have the opportunity to use language and functions to meet this standard.
  • Teacher's Guide In many Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Supplemental Reading In some Supplemental Reading activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.

WIDA ELD Standard 2: Language for Language Arts

ELD-LA.K.Narrate.Interpretive

Multilingual learners will interpret language arts narratives (with prompting and support) by...

  • Identifying key details
  • Identifying characters, settings, and major events
  • Asking and answering questions about unknown words in a text
  • Teacher's Guide In many Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Supplemental Reading In some Supplemental Reading activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.

ELD-LA.K.Narrate.Expressive

Multilingual learners will construct language arts narratives (with prompting and support) that...

  • Orient audience to story
  • Describe story events
  • Teacher's Guide In many Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Supplemental Reading In some Supplemental Reading activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.

ELD-LA.K.Inform.Interpretive

Multilingual learners will interpret informational texts in language arts (with prompting and support) by...

  • Identifying main topic and key details
  • Asking and answering questions about descriptions of familiar attributes and characteristics
  • Identifying word choices in relation to topic or content area
  • Teacher's Guide In many Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners use language functions to meet this standard.

ELD-LA.K.Inform.Expressive

Multilingual learners will construct informational texts in language arts (with prompting and support) that...

  • Introduce topic for audience
  • Describe details and facts
  • Teacher's Guide In some Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners use language functions to meet this standard.

WIDA ELD Standard 3: Language for Mathematics

ELD-MA.K.Inform.Interpretive

Multilingual learners will interpret mathematical informational texts (with prompting and support) by...

  • Identifying concept or object
  • Describing quantities and attributes
  • Online Lessons In some online Course activities, learners have the opportunity to use language and functions to meet this standard.
  • Teacher's Guide In many Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.

ELD-MA.K.Inform.Expressive

Multilingual learners will construct mathematical informational texts (with prompting and support) that...

  • Define or classify concept or entity
  • Describe a concept or entity
  • Compare/contrast concepts or entities
  • Online Lessons In some online Course activities, learners have the opportunity to use language and functions to meet this standard.
  • Teacher's Guide In many Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.

WIDA ELD Standard 5: Language for Social Studies

ELD-SS.K.Inform.Interpretive

Multilingual learners will interpret informational texts in social studies by...

  • Determining topic associated with a compelling or supporting question
  • Defining attributes and characteristics in relevant information
  • Online Lessons In most online Course activities, learners have the opportunity to use language and functions to meet this standard.
  • Teacher's Guide In many Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Workbook In some Workbook activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.

ELD-SS.K.Inform.Expressive

Multilingual learners will construct informational texts in social studies that...

  • Introduce topic associated with a compelling or supporting question
  • Provide a detail about relevant information
  • Online Lessons In most online Course activities, learners have the opportunity to use language and functions to meet this standard.
  • Teacher's Guide In many Teacher's Guide and K-2 Teacher's Guide activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.
  • Workbook In some Workbook activities, learners have the opportunity to meet this standard.

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