WIDA 2020 Common Misconceptions

Which of the following is not a phase in the teaching and learning cycle?

• Build Knowledge

• Joint Deconstruction

• Joint Reconstruction

• Reduce Scaffold toward Independence

True or False: All phases of the teaching and learning cycle must occur in a single lesson.

• True

• False

True or False: When you jointly deconstruct a text, you analyze the text through the 3 dimensions of language (discourse, sentence, word/phrase).

• True

• False

True/False: The mentor text used in text deconstruction is always provided in the teacher’s lesson/unit resources.

• True

• False

Which of the following is not a part of the WIDA ELD Standards Framework, 2020 Edition?

• WIDA ELD Standards Statements

• Key Language Uses

• Language Expectations

• Can Do Descriptors

True/False: You need a different Language Goal for each lesson that you teach.

• True

• False

True/False: A Language Goal can only have one Language Feature.

• True

• False