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What do my ESL students already know?

Here you’ll find resources to help you understand your ESL students’ WIDA Access scores. I’ll explain the Can-Do descriptors, and what they mean for your students.

ELL Placement and Identification

Check out this video from Colorín Colorado about ELL placements. It’s important to note that CDL student cannot be placed in grade levels solely based on their English proficiency. Any programs they are placed into must be age appropriate.

Interventions and EL Students

Intervention programs such as RTI or MTSS are used in most schools to identify and help students who may not be making progress in the general classroom. However, we cannot assume that our usual interventions will always be effective for our English learners. This video and article from Colorin Colorado explains more about how we…

Special Ed and EL Students

All too often teachers with little to no experience in working with EL students may jump to the conclusion that EL students might have a learning disability, simply because they are struggling academically. However, we have to be careful to determine whether the student actually has a learning disability, or if their limited English proficiency…

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