WIDA Quiz :)

What grades do the WIDA standards span?

• 9-12

• k-12

• k-8

• 6-12

All standards pertain to the ______________ of each content area.

• language

• knowledge

• content

• learning

the WIDA Can Do Philosphy is...

• new this year

• a philosophy which centers around the physical abilities of students

• based on the belief that all students bring to their learning cultural, experiential, and linguistic practices, skills, and ways of knowing from their homes and communities

• the conceptualization of language learning in addition to the nature of academic language and its relation to language development.

The Features of Academic Language in Sociocultural Contexts highlight academic language features across what three dimensions?

• discourse, sentence and word/phrase, and six levels of language proficiency

• discourse, native language vocabulary, and six levels of language proficiency

The Can Do Descriptors...

• illustrate what learners can do at each level of language proficiency across the five language development standards.

• can help an educator gauge a students abilities when using a Multiple Indicator Protocol (MIP)

• are intended to be easy to use and understand

There are ___ standards.

• 4

• 24

• 5

• 10

The Standards Matrices and the Performance Definitions can be used together to...

• describe possible student trajectories for academic language development

• describe possible student interventions regarding use of home language

• assess both formative and summative student work

When using WIDA standards no other standards should be used, even content area standards.

• True

• False

WIDA standards are only for EL teachers and should not be shared with content area teachers.

• True

• False

The WIDA standards matrix is an explicit __________ to challenging state academic standards.

• Disregard

• Connection

• Coherence

• Change