Emerging Bilingual Readers

WIDA: world class instructional design and assessment. annual test to monitor progress in learning academic language

4 Domains of WIDA: reading, writing, speaking and listening

3 Composite Scores of WIDA: oral language, literacy, overall

6 Proficiency Levels of WIDA: entering, emerging, developing, expanding, bridging, and reaching

Emerging: understands and speaks conversational and academic English with difficulty. understands simple directions and parts of lessons. significantly below grade level.

Cognate: words in two languages that share a similar meaning, spelling, and pronunciation.

Strategies for cognates: read aloud, word sorts, exaggerate intonation