Appendix: Implementing District Standards
English Language Development (ELD) standards in Oklahoma are founded upon the WIDA (World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment) framework. WIDA constitutes a consortium of states committed to supporting multilingual learners. This unit will use the WIDA standards to Narrate, Inform, Explain, and Argue using four language domains: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing.
Within the Listening domain, students will engage in practicing and processing spoken language across diverse contexts and for varied intentions. This unit aims to assist students in honing these ensuing crucial skills: comprehending main concepts and supporting details in spoken texts, following multi-step directions and instructions, identifying key vocabulary and language structures in spoken discourse, and demonstrating active listening by asking clarifying questions.
In the Speaking domain, students will enhance their conversational aptitude, proficiency in presenting information, and the coherent articulation of ideas. Specifically, they will be enhancing skills needed to become more proficient in this domain, like engaging in conversations using appropriate social language and turn-taking, expressing ideas and opinions clearly and coherently, giving presentations or oral reports on their narrative work, and in-group discussions and collaborative activities. Students will share ideas about their own and others’ lived experiences, connect stories with images, identify and raise questions about what might be unexplained, restate ideas, and create closure.
Within the domain of Reading, students will partake in comprehending and interpreting written text in different genres and formats. Students will be able to enhance the following skills: understanding the main idea and specific details in written texts, making predictions based on contextual clues and identifying and interpreting vocabulary words in context, recognizing different text structures (e.g., compare and contrast, cause and effect), and inferring the author's purpose and perspective. Students will develop the skills in the standard to argue like: generating questions about different perspectives, challenging opinions, evaluating their changes in thinking and refining their reasoning based on evidence.
Students will practice skills within the Writing domain by producing written text in narrative form using the following: composing coherent and well-structured paragraphs and essays, using appropriate grammar and syntax to convey meaning, employing descriptive language, organizing ideas logically, and editing written work for clarity and correctness. Students will also be informed and be able to define vocabulary, report on explicit and inferred characteristics and patterns, clarify and summarize relationships.
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