Category: WIDA
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Listening Progress Monitoring
For months, I have been quietly creating Listening Progress Monitoring/Practice for grades 6-8. I noticed there were very few options available at an affordable price for schools and teachers, so I created my own. However, it has taken me a long time, as I wanted to be sure I was delivering quality and quantity. Each…
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Favorite Speaking Games
Why speaking games? Have you ever wished your multilingual learners would speak more? My students, especially in high school, did not want to speak to me, each other, and certainly not into a microphone for a standardized test like the WIDA ACCESS. I needed IDEAS, and fast. So, I explored the web and by doing…
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SASHES Strategy for Academic Speaking
You may not have heard of SASHES Strategy for Academic Speaking yet, but that’s because I’m the one who created it and I’m not famous. However, I think you’ll love this strategy. Teaching English Learners (ELs) how to speak in an academic discourse is much more difficult than English Language Development (ELD) teachers think will…
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Writing Advice for the WIDA ACCESS test
I had a new-to-ELD teacher email me recently asking for advice about the Writing portion of the WIDA ACCESS test for grades 9-12. This is what I told her: If you do not have that much time to actually prepare for writing, then you will need to model good test taking skills for the writing…