Spanish Academic Language Standards & Assessment (SALSA)
Normas de desarrollo lingüístico del español |
Spanish Language Development Standards |
Norma
(Standard)
1 |
Los estudiantes de español se comunican con propósitos sociales y de instrucción dentro del contexto escolar |
Spanish language learners communicate for Social and Instructional purposes within the school setting |
Norma
(Standard)
2 |
Los estudiantes de español comunican información, ideas y conceptos que son necesarios para el éxito académico en el área de contenido de las Artes del Lenguaje |
Spanish language learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Language Arts
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Norma
(Standard)
3 |
Los estudiantes de español comunican información, ideas y conceptos que son necesarios para el éxito académico en el área de contenido de las Matemáticas
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Spanish language learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Mathematics
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Norma
(Standard)
4 |
Los estudiantes de español comunican información, ideas y conceptos que son necesarios para el éxito académico en el área de contenido de las Ciencias Naturales |
Spanish language learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Science
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Norma
(Standard)
5 |
Los estudiantes de español comunican información, ideas y conceptos que son necesarios para el éxito académico en el área de contenido de las Ciencias Sociales |
Spanish language learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Social Studies
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New! WIDA is pleased to release a draft of the Spanish Language Development Standards. After reviewing the file below, please send any feedback to Lorena Mancilla (lmancilla@wisc.edu). WIDA appreciates your ideas and support in completing this publication! The final publication is scheduled for release in early 2013.
December 2012 DRAFT WIDA SLD Standards 
On behalf of the WIDA Consortium, the Illinois State Board of Education applied for and was awarded an enhanced assessment grant in October 2010:
- to develop and implement academic Spanish language development (SLD) standards for students in PreKindergarten through 12th grade, addressing Social & Instructional Language, the Language of Language Arts, Language of Mathematics, Language of Science, and Language of Social Studies
- to develop a technology mediated, reliable, and valid Spanish language proficiency assessment for Kindergarten and Grades 1-2* based on those standards
- to develop a screener test for obtaining baseline measurements of students' Spanish language proficiency for Grades K-2*
* WIDA is currently seeking additional funding to extend SLD assessment to grades 3-12.
Through use of these standards and assessments, educators will gain knowledge about academic Spanish language development and their students' progress, and will be able to shape instruction and develop curriculum to enable students to achieve high academic standards in Spanish. The standards and assessment will be applicable to any student receiving content area instruction in Spanish regardless of their native language.
The 5 SLD Standards are listed at right. A brief tutorial offers an overview of the format of the standards framework, which parallels that of WIDA's ELD Standards. Watch the tutorial (en español)
The PODER (Prueba Óptima del Desarrollo del Español Realizado) assessment will be developed by the Center for Applied Linguistics on behalf of WIDA. Initial piloting and field testing of PODER will occur in multiple sites, including Illinois, Colorado, New Mexico, and Puerto Rico.
Contact information
To learn more about the SALSA grant project or offer to participate, please contact Lorena Mancilla at lmancilla@wisc.edu.