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This graphic breaks down the differences between phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, and phonics.

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This link will take you to the WIDA Can Do descriptors page. The Can Do descriptors provide an overview of the skills students should be able to do as they progress along the continuum of becoming proficient English speakers.

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A tool to help you meet students where they are in their language development

The Can Do Descriptors highlight what language learners can do at various stages of language development as they engage in the following contexts:

Bilingual and English-immersion early care and education programs

Bilingual, Spanish-immersion and English-immersion K-12 language programs

Bilingual, Spanish-immersion and English-immersion K-12 content-area classrooms

Similar to the WIDA English Language Development Standards Statements, the Can Do Descriptors describe what learners can do with language across different content areas. Although the Can Do Descriptors relate to the ELD Standards Statements, they don't replace them but are used to supplement the standards statements during instruction.

Educators and early childhood practitioners can use the Can Do Descriptors to

Better understand what students at different levels of language proficiency can do with language

Expand their understanding of what the process of language development can look like

Collaborate around scaffolding that students need to engage in content-area learning and develop language at the same time

Differentiate instruction and classroom assessment for language

Interpret ACCESS for ELLs test scores

The Can Do Descriptors have not yet been updated to reflect the 2020 Edition; however, they remain available as a valuable tool for communicating with stakeholders about what students can do at each language proficiency level. WIDA is monitoring educator use to help inform the timing for updating the materials.

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A tool to help you meet students where they are in their language developmentThe Can Do Descriptors highlight what language learners can do at various stages of language development as they engage in the following contexts:

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Wiley Blevins Phonemic Awareness Assessment

This assessment has a section for isolating sounds, substituting sounds, blending sounds, and segmenting words. It also includes a section on identifying words that begin with the same beginning sounds. This assessment has sections on identifying rhyming words and creating rhyming words.

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This brochure provides an overview on the importance of phonics and phonics instruction.

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This is a fantastic video on what is happening inside of the brain when we are learning how to read!

Strom, C. (2022) Cortex in the Classroom Webinar: Advancing Science of Reading in the Early Years. Amplify CKLA.

Watch from 10:00 min to 40:00 min.

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Advancing Science of Reading in the Early Years - K–5 Literacy Program & Curriculum | Amplify CKLA

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This blog post about Oral Language does a great job of explaining the components of oral language and the importance of each.

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What Is Oral Language? Developing oral language means developing the skills and knowledge that go into listening and speaking-all of which have a strong relationship to reading comprehension and to writing.

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This article shares the importance of using turn-and-talks in the classroom. It also provides strategies to ensure you are using turn-and-talks to develop students oral language skills.

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Using Turn and Talk to Develop Language: Observations in Early Classrooms

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Splash learn is an online educational tool for students in Pre-K through 5th grade. It features math and reading activities.

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This link will take you to the WIDA ACCESS page. This page talks about the parts of the assessment as well as what you can do to help students prepare.

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A suite of secure, large-scale, summative English language proficiency assessmentsACCESS for ELLs (ACCESS) is the collective name for WIDA's suite of summative English language proficiency assessments. ACCESS is taken annually by English learners in kindergarten through grade 12 in WIDA Consortium member states.

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Diagnostic Test of Phonological and Phonemic Awareness (DAPPA). This assessment has six sections to gain a better understanding of students phonological and phonemic awareness.