MPLS/ESL WIDA Tools: Student-Friendly Can-Do Descriptors | Pre-K and Kindergarten
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“Student-Friendly” WIDA CAN DO Descriptors: Grade Level Cluster PreK-K: 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:
Listening
Level 1: Entering
Level 2: Emerging
Level 3: Developing
Level 4: Expanding
Level 5: Bridging
• Listen and match words to things
• Listen to directions and sort things
• Listen and point to pictures
• Listen to descriptions and match things
• Listen and follow two-step directions, one step at a time
• Listen to descriptions and find matching pictures
• Listen and put pictures in the right order
• Listen and draw pictures
• Listen to directions and use a picture to check that I understand
• Listen and do things • Listen to names and find people and places
• Listen to one-step directions and do things • Listen and find patterns
Writing
Reading
Speaking
• Listen to stories and make gestures
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• Listen and show "Yes" or "No" • Listen and act out songs/stories with gestures
• Listen to stories and tell what comes first and what comes next
• Listen and arrange pictures • Listen and find the pictures or things that match what the teacher says • Listen and make a pattern that the teacher explains
• Listen to stories and act out a part
• Say the names of pictures of people or things in stories
• Tell some things that happened in a story
• Say the same thing as the teacher
• Tell about pictures, things, and people
• Answer yes or no to questions about myself
• Answer questions with one or two words
• Name things in the classroom, house, and outside
• Finish the rhyme (song or chant)
• Match symbols to pictures
• Match kinds of writing
• Use pictures to figure out words
• Find sight words in a story
• Find things that go with "school"
• Find my name
• Tell which types of writing are the same and which are different
• Sorting things using words and pictures
• Put pictures in order to tell a story
• Tell the different between a letter, a word, and a sentence
• Find words and pictures that match • Find things in my classroom
• Show how to read a book
• Retell short stories with pictures • Repeat sentences from rhymes and patterned stories • Tell what will happen next • Answer questions about stories I hear
• Tell who the author and illustrator are
• Retell stories with pictures with details
• Make up stories and tell them
• Sing songs and say chants by myself
• Tell what I think
• Tell what is the same and what is different in things
• Tell how I feel • Tell what I like/ dislike and why I like/dislike it
• Tell where things are
• Match pictures and words • Sort a picture into two groups
• Match picture cards to pictures in book
• Sort pictures
• Draw pictures and scribble
• Find the word the teacher says
• Write to tell something
• Write about a picture
• Circle or underline pictures, symbols, and numbers
• Copy words from the page in a story
• Write notes with pictures and words
• Trace pictures and letters
• Copy signs I see or the teacher tells me about
• Make connections between speech and writing
• Draw pictures and use words to tell a story
• Make letters with clay (pipe cleaners, straws…)
• Draw things and write what they are
• Write words from labeled pictures
• Put words together to make short sentences • Find parts of words and sentences that are the same • Tell about something using pictures and words • Make a book with pictures and words
• Label people and things
• Write things by myself
• Write words that tell things I see often
• Write about my life
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.