STANDARD COURSE OF STUDY
STANDARD COURSE OF STUDYThe NC English Language Proficiency Standard Course of Study is the World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) English Language Proficiency Standards [approved by the State Board of Education June 5, 2008]. These standards are K-12.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY STANDARDS
Standard 1: English language learners communicate for Social and Instructional purposes within the school setting.
Standard 2: English language learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Language Arts.
Standard 3: English language learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Mathematics.
Standard 4: English language learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Science.
Standard 5: English language learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Social Studies.
The Performance Definitions for North Carolina's levels of English language proficiency follow WIDA's Performance Definitions. These can be downloaded.
http://www.wida.us/standards/RG_Performance Definitions.pdf
The ELP Standards and the Model Performance Indicators (MPIs) which are grouped in formative and summative frameworks are available as two separate documents to reduce the size of the download.
Grade level clusters K-5
http://www.wida.us/standards/PreK-5 Standards web.pdf
Grade level clusters 6-12
http://www.wida.us/standards/6-12 Standards web.pdf