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ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM - For Parents

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WASL accommodations

Typically, all ELL students must participate in all WASLs scheduled for their grade, except those who are in their first year of enrollment in U.S. schools. These students need to take only the math exam.

There are accommodations available for ELL students. Contact your school’s test coordinator or ELD staff for more information.

In addition to participating in the WASL, ELL students must take the Washington Language Proficiency Test II (WLPT II) annually in reading, writing, speaking and listening.

Graduation requirements and WASL information for parents in english and other languages

Glossary of education terms in spanish/Diccionario del lenguaje educativo


Accessing translation/interpretation services

The ELD program employs about 20 bilingual specialists who speak more than 10 different languages represented by students in the school district. These bilingual specialists provide instructional support in English when working with ELLs, and also use their bilingual skills to communicate between the school and the home in the primary language of ELL families as needed.

The ELD program also provides a variety of translated district documents to communicate with ELL families.

The ELD program subscribes to TransACT, which is a translation database of state and district documents in up to 20 different languages, and to Language Line, which is an interpreter service via telephone, providing access to interpretation services in 170 different languages, as needed.


ELD standards and proficiency levels from the OSPI web site

ELL students enter our schools at various degrees of written and oral language ability. The WLPT (Washington Language Proficiency Test) is administered to students when they enter the district in order to determine their language proficiency levels so that we can better serve their specific language needs. Language proficiency levels are assigned by grade level (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12) and each student is determined to have a "beginning, advanced beginning, intermediate, advanced, or transitional level." These levels are described more specifically at the OSPI Migrant and Bilingual Web Page. Students who qualify for the program are served by ELD support. However, students who "test or opt" out of ELD services can still receive support if needed and/or desired.

ELD "EALR" Benchmarks are also described by grade level and language domains "listening, speaking, reading, writing" at the same OSPI Migrant and Bilingual Web Page.

Finally, please be in contact with the ELD staff member (teacher, tutor and/or bi-lingual specialist) who serves your school if you have more questions. You may also contact the program coordinator with any questions you have about how to better serve and partner with the ELD program to best serve students.

Thank you.

   

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