Title III

What is Title III?
Title III is a federal entitlement through Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) that focuses on supplemental services for English Learners (EL) and recently arrived Immigrant Children and Youth. Title III funding provides scholar support for language acquisition and achievement.
 
The purpose of Title III is to help ensure that English learners, including immigrant children and youth, attain English proficiency and develop high levels of academic achievement and assist teachers (including preschool teachers), administrators, and other school leaders in developing and enhancing their capacity to provide effective instructional programs.
For more information, contact Robin SCHubert, our Director of special services at 864-248-0646 ext 4131.

What is WIDA and it's standards?

The WIDA English Language Development (ELD) Standards Framework is designed to support multilingual learners from kindergarten through grade 12. It focuses on fairness and recognizes the strengths, contributions, and potential of scholars who speak multiple languages. This framework helps educators plan lessons and assessments that support both language learning and academic success based on the SC State Standards.

Each year, multilingual scholars are required to take the ACCESS for ELLs test. This assessment measures their proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing English, providing valuable information to guide instruction and support their language development. 

ACCESS Scores are reported in terms of "Levels of Proficiency."

Your child’s ACCESS test results help the school and government understand how well scholars are learning English. Teachers use the results to decide how best to support your child, and they also show how much progress your child is making.

ACCESS scores show how well a student understands and uses English. Each scholar is placed into one of six levels, based on WIDA’s English language development scale. These levels help teachers understand how much English support a scholar needs.

English Proficiency Level WIDA English Language Development Level
Level 1

Entering
Level 2 Emerging
Level 3 Developing
Level 4 Expanding
Level 5  Bridging
Level 6 Reaching

 

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