Using WIDA Can Do Descriptors To Help Guide Instruction

Getting to know your students is the first step in helping them become successful.  Here is a way to get to know your students as language learners! 

By using the WIDA Can Do Descriptors, you can see where your students currently are within the Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing domains.  You can then look ahead to see what is in the next level to start bridging and modeling those skills within instruction so they eventually CAN DO them independently. 













*Sneak Peek Next Week- extending the descriptors to the NEW Key Uses 


~Michelle K & Christine P