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Student Friendly Can-Do Descriptors
Student Friendly Can-Do Descriptors
Student Friendly Can-Do Descriptors
• Say the same thing as • Tell about pictures, from rhymes and • Sing songs and say
the teacher things, and people patterned stories chants by myself • Tell what I think
• Answer yes or no to • Answer questions • Tell what will • Tell what is the • Tell what I like/
questions about with one or two happen next same and what is dislike and why I
myself words different in things like/dislike it
• Answer questions
• Name things in the • Finish the rhyme about stories I hear • Tell where things
classroom, house, (song or chant) are
and outside
• Match symbols to • Match kinds of • Use pictures to • Find sight words in • Find things that go
pictures writing figure out words a story with "school"
• Find my name • Tell which types of • Sorting things • Put pictures in • Tell the different
writing are the using words and order to tell a story between a letter, a
• Find words and
Reading
pictures, symbols, the page in a story pictures and words use words to tell a • Make a book with
and numbers story pictures and words
• Copy signs I see or • Make connections
• Trace pictures and the teacher tells between speech • Label people and • Write things by
letters me about and writing things myself
• Make letters with • Draw things and • Write words from • Write words that • Write about my life
clay (pipe cleaners, write what they labeled pictures tell things I see
straws…) are often
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The tools developed at http://mplsesl.wikispaces.com represent teacher efforts to better understand, explain and use the WIDA English Language Proficiency
Standards, our state-mandated standards for ESL instruction. These materials are neither produced nor authorized by the WIDA test-publishing company.
“Student-Friendly” WIDA CAN DO Descriptors: Grade Level Cluster 1-2
For the given level of English language proficiency and with visual, graphic, or interactive support through Level 4, English
language learners can process or produce the language needed to:
• Repeat words and • Use my home • Ask questions • Ask questions to • Use academic
phrases language to help about people find about people vocabulary in
me speak English and school class
• Answer questions • Tell how I feel discussions
about things I see • Repeat facts or • Talk in whole class
statements • Retell stories discussions • Tell and support
Speaking
related
• Write things with • Finish sentences • Write in journal • Write in my journal sentences
pictures that the teacher about my life
starts • Tell about • Write stories
• Label things and something using • Use dictionaries
pictures • Write about pictures and word walls to • Explain how to
people, places, write sentences do something
and things from
pictures
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The tools developed at http://mplsesl.wikispaces.com represent teacher efforts to better understand, explain and use the WIDA English Language Proficiency
Standards, our state-mandated standards for ESL instruction. These materials are neither produced nor authorized by the WIDA test-publishing company.
“Student-Friendly” WIDA CAN DO Descriptors: Grade Level Cluster 3-5
For the given level of English language proficiency and with visual, graphic, or interactive support through Level 4, English
language learners can process or produce the language needed to:
• Listen and find • Follow two-step • Match descriptions to explanation and • [Using a model],
things or people directions. illustrations. point out details on listen to a problem
• Listen to the • Listen and draw • Listen to a story and an illustration. and use models to
teacher and do the pictures. sort pictures. [Listen to figure it out.
• Listen to [a story, an
classroom routines. an explanation and …] explanation] • Listen and explain
• Listen to choices and
express an opinion. figurative language.
• Listen about authors
[scientists, etc.] and • Listen to [stories,
act out what you explanations] and
hear. give opinions.
• Tell what you need. • Ask everyday • Answer [simple] • Give reasons for an • Use evidence to
| Tell how you feel. questions. questions about opinion. defend opinions.
• Say the names of • Restate facts about [school subjects] • Discuss stories, • Give oral
things. school topics. • Re-tell stories. [Re-tell issues and concepts. presentations using
events.] technical
Speaking
• Write the words • Make lists from labels • Write stories or • Use graphic • Write responses to
that tell about or with other reports organizer to take texts near my
things students notes grade level
• Write sentences that
• Tell what I think • Finish or write go together • Summarize • Write about [new
Writing
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The tools developed at http://mplsesl.wikispaces.com represent teacher efforts to better understand, explain and use the WIDA English Language Proficiency
Standards, our state-mandated standards for ESL instruction. These materials are neither produced nor authorized by the WIDA test-publishing company.
“Student-Friendly” WIDA CAN DO Descriptors: Grade Level Cluster 6-8
For the given level of English language proficiency and with visual, graphic, or interactive support through Level 4, English
language learners can process or produce the language needed to:
Level 1: Level 2: Level 3: Level 4: Expanding Level 5:
Entering Emerging Developing Bridging
• Follow one-step • Follow directions with • Listen and sort things the • Listen and tell main ideas • Listen and use
directions more than one step teacher says and details of information to
• Match everyday • Listen and sort pictures • Listen and match main ideas conversations finish work
language to • Listen and put pictures in of texts to pictures • Finish work based on • Evaluate
Listening
pictures order • Listen and use strategies what the teacher tells unspoken reasons
• Point to things that • Listen and find • Listen to ideas from you for what
my teacher says information on charts ____________ and find • Use strategies in new someone says
• Match school and tables examples situations and respond
language to • Match words and phrases to • Act out scenes from a • Make inferences
pictures past, present, or future story from texts read
aloud
• Tell the difference
between genres
• Answer yes/no and • Use everyday language • Talk about time using • Summarize ideas • Defend a point of
choice questions to talk about school multiple tenses. • Defend a point of view view and give
• Use words that are subjects • Retell ideas you heard • Tell how things end reasons.
common • Tell main ideas from • Give short presentations • Explain and compare • Use and explain
Speaking
signs and words • Follow along while • Make predictions based on • Read and interpret probably state
• Find author and listening pictures from a story [adapted classics or the strategy to be
illustrator modified text] used.]
• Sort words and phrases • Explain how prefixes and
• Find one-word suffixes change meaning • Match cause to effect • Make inferences
• Use words I know to about meanings
answers to who, finish sentences • Tell fact from opinion • Match specific language
what, when, and in text
• Use my home language • Answer questions about to genres or texts that
where questions in use it • Critique material
to help learn English. what I read and support
a story • Use many strategies to
• Use bilingual dictionaries • Use English dictionaries and argument
• Use picture and glossaries. glossaries understand what I read
dictionaries • Sort grade-level
text by genre
• Draw pictures • Finish pattern sentences • Write paragraphs with main • Write essay with several • Write
about • Finish sentences with my idea and details paragraphs explanations of
___________ own ideas • Write compound sentences • Prove that ideas are graphs or charts
• Use common • Put sentences together • Tell steps for solving a good • Write reports
Writing
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The tools developed at http://mplsesl.wikispaces.com represent teacher efforts to better understand, explain and use the WIDA English Language Proficiency
Standards, our state-mandated standards for ESL instruction. These materials are neither produced nor authorized by the WIDA test-publishing company.
“Student-Friendly” WIDA CAN DO Descriptors: Grade Level Cluster 9-12
For the given level of English language proficiency and with visual, graphic, or interactive support through Level 4, English
language learners can process or produce the language needed to:
Level 1: Level 2: Level 3: Level 4: Level 5:
Entering |Emerging Developing Expanding Bridging
• Listen and point to • Listen and match • Listen and tell what I • Listen and tell what a • Figure out cause and
parts of things what I hear to think word means effect
• Listen and match pictures • Listen and tell main • Listen and figure out • Listen and make
ideas with pictures • Listen and tell if it is ideas and details what I need to do inferences based on
Listening
• Listen and group in the past, present • Listen and use • Categorize genres read satire, sarcasm, or
things or future strategies aloud humor
• Listen and tell what • Listen and put • Listen and sort • Listen and compare • Listen and find
something is pictures in order examples traits differences in speech
(e.g., hyperbole, satire,
comedy)
• Listen and figure out
what is intended and
act accordingly
• Answer yes or no • Tell about people, • Tell ways to solve • Choose a side and use • Give multimedia oral
questions places, things, and problems evidence to defend it presentations on
• Tell information things that happen • Compare and • Tell about issues and grade-level material
about myself • Ask who, what, contrast how people ideas • Participate in debates
Speaking
• Name everyday when, where, why are • Compare and contrast on issues using specific
objects and pre- questions to help me • Put processes, cycles, how people see things language
taught vocabulary understand procedures, and • Explain metacognitive
• Make choices and tell
• Repeat words and • Tell about school- evens in order pros and cons of them strategies for solving
sentences related things • Interview people to problems (e.g., “Tell
• Use and explain slang me how you know it.”)
• Talk about things in get information and idioms
pictures • Make predictions • Figure out meaning in
• Use speaking discussions
based on ideas strategies
• Match pictures or • Match • Understand words • Compare and contrast • Tell the meaning of
things to words ideas/things/informa with multiple _________________ grade-level literature
• Read things I see in tion to where they meanings • Understand • Draw conclusions after
school everyday came from • Find topic sentence, information reading different
• Answer who, what, • Sort information main ideas, and • Infer meaning sources on a topic
when, where, and from graphs details • Infer importance of
• Match cause to effect
Reading
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The tools developed at http://mplsesl.wikispaces.com represent teacher efforts to better understand, explain and use the WIDA English Language Proficiency
Standards, our state-mandated standards for ESL instruction. These materials are neither produced nor authorized by the WIDA test-publishing company.