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Reviewed PRIME v1 and v2 Correlations and PRIME 2020 alignments

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WIDA is pleased to list instructional materials that have gone through the PRIME process and received a PRIME seal.

We will be adding materials that have gone through the WIDA PRIME 2020 alignment process, as well as materials for WIDA PRIME V2 for Spanish Language Development Correlations as they become available.

You may filter for correlations that were previously correlated with PRIME V1 and PRIME V2, or aligned with PRIME 2020:


PRIME V1 includes materials that were correlated with the retired WIDA English Language Proficiency Standards, 2007 Edition

PRIME V2 includes materials that were correlated with the retired 2012 Amplification of the WIDA English Language Development Standards

PRIME V2 Español includes materials that were correlated with the WIDA Spanish Language Development Standards, 2013 Edition

PRIME 2020 includes materials that are aligned to the current WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition

Please note that WIDA does not endorse any set of instructional materials. WIDA PRIME is not an evaluative tool that judges the effectiveness of published materials. EL teachers work with a wide range of needs and in a wide range of environments. For this reason, teachers should consider the information contained in the WIDA PRIME documents to determine how particular materials fit in their program.


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Grade 1, Pre K, K

Hoopoe Early Literacy Curriculum-Teaching-Stories: Learning that Lasts (Hoopoe Books)

A language-based approach to cognitive and social-emotional development through Teaching-Stories and companion activities.

PRIME V1
Grade 1

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Into Reading Grade 1

Content Area: Language Arts (Reading)

Grade 1 was aligned as part of the PRIME 2020 pilot. Additional grades will be reviewed in the near future.

PRIME 2020
Grade 2

McGraw Hill, Wonders Grade 2 Reading

Content Area: Language Arts (Reading)

Grade 2 was aligned as part of the PRIME 2020 pilot. Additional grades will be reviewed in the near future.

PRIME 2020
Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12

ACCESS Newcomers
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

ACCESS presents standards-based subject specific language and content to English language learners

PRIME V1
Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12

ACCESS American History

ACCESS presents standards-based subject specific language and content to English language learners

PRIME V1
Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12

ACCESS Science

ACCESS presents standards-based subject specific language and content to English language learners

PRIME V1
Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12

ACCESS Math

ACCESS presents standards-based subject specific language and content to English language learners

PRIME V1
Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12

ACCESS English

ACCESS presents standards-based subject specific language and content to English language learners

PRIME V1
Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12

ACCESS World History

ACCESS presents standards-based subject specific language and content to English language learners

PRIME V1
Grade 6, Grade 2, Grade 5, Grade 4, Grade 3

Benchmark Advance ALL ©2017 by Benchmark Education Company, LLC

Benchmark Advance ALL accelerates learning for English Learners in Grades 2 through 6. The program is comprised of 170 leveled readers that encourage striving readers to achieve reading success at higher levels. The Advance ALL student books and support materials can be integrated into instruction of any core reading program or used as a supplementary asset. Advance ALL helps students build literacy skills, topical knowledge, and reading strategies. The program is appropriate for students and ELs of all ages who are preliterate or proficient at an Emergent to Early/Fluent level. Advance ALL is also an appropriate tool for SLIFE students, long-term ELs, Special Education students, and adult English Learners.

PRIME V2
K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Benchmark Advancing Language Learning by Benchmark Education

Benchmark Advancing Language Learning accelerates learning while giving teachers scaffolds to meet the needs of students at varied levels of proficiency. The program meets WIDA, ELPA21, TESOL, and state English Language standards to provide time and activities devoted specifically to EL instruction. The program employs a system of building language skills, applying to grade text, and transferring learning to additional tasks and assessment. Instruction is integrated to accelerate learning and application in context, while Mini Lessons incorporate differentiation and formative assessments monitor individual language development. 

PRIME V2
Pre K, K

Big English Levels 1-6 and Big Fun Levels 1-3 by Pearson

Big English is a six-level primary program best suited to classes with anywhere between 4 and 8 hours of English each week, Big English is perfect for teachers looking for a well-balanced approach that includes ready-made Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) lessons and a focus on 21st Century skills development. Big Fun is a program that teaches young children ages 3-5 English - by listening, imitating and repeating - in the same way that they learn their native language.

PRIME V2
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 5, Grade 4, Grade 3, K

Carousel of IDEAS, 4th Edition - Ballard & Tighe

Carousel of IDEAS is a program designed to prepare K-5 English language learners for transition into mainstream academic classes. The program integrates listening, speaking, reading, and writing into the major content areas. It can be used in a pull-out or an immersion program. The program allows teachers to customize the lessons based on the student abilities. The variety of activities and teaching materials enables teachers to provide differentiated instruction and address a wide range of learning styles and student abilities. The program builds on prior learning and language is recycled from chapter to chapter to build upon concepts presented. Integrated literature helps students build and refine literacy and critical thinking skills. Students engage in active learning and group settings to experience authentic and meaningful communication.

PRIME V2
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12

Champion of IDEAS by Ballard & Tighe

Champions of IDEAS is a rigorous, research-based language development program designed for middle and high school learners at all levels of language proficiency. The program integrates listening, speaking, reading, and writing with major content areas to prepare students for success in mainstream academic classes taught in English.

PRIME V2
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, K

Despegando hacia la lectura™
by Okapi Educational Publishing
SPANISH

Despegando hacia la lectura™ is a comprehensive, Spanish-language, early literacy resource that can be fully implemented as a stand-alone early literacy program. Combine it with its English-language counterpart—the award-winning Flying Start to Literacy—for rigorous dual-literacy instruction.

PRIME V2 ESPAÑOL
Grade 1, Pre K, K

Despegando hacia la lectura: Un enfoque de lectura compartida by Okapi Educational Publishing

Despegando hacia la lectura: Un enfoque de lectura compartida - Using a Shared Reading Approach will support young students as they develop the attitudes, understandings, skills, and strategies they need to become successful readers.


PRIME V2 ESPAÑOL
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, K

Discussions4Learning by Davis Publications, Inc.

Discussions4Learning  introduces a wealth of rich, academic, oral vocabulary through fast-paced, twenty-minute lessons designed to engage all students. Each lesson focuses on a brilliant fine art image; each week includes two fine art images and two real-world photos. By focusing on oral language, rather than connecting vocabulary instruction to phonics and spelling instruction, all students, regardless of their decoding proficiency, can participate in learning and using new vocabulary. Discussions4Learning is designed to be a phonics-free time of the school day when students engage in listening to and using sophisticated, high-level vocabulary as they discuss and explore fine art images and real-world photos.

PRIME V2
K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Exact Path, Edmentum

Exact Path is a K-8 online program that utilizes adaptive assessments and targeted learning paths to individualize instruction. Each lesson is standard aligned, paced at students’ needs, and structured to give students control over their own educational journeys. Exact Path can be used in classrooms as part of a station rotation model, in technology lab settings, for individual student work times, for small group sessions with specialists or paraprofessionals, in a flipped classroom model, and even as a resource for explanations during whole class instruction. Because it individualizes instruction, Exact Path can be used for every student in your class, whether that learner is struggling and needs support or intervention, whether they are on track and ready for new challenges, or whether they are accelerated and ready to move ahead at their own pace. In addition to the rich instruction, it includes regular assessments through the two or three diagnostic tests given during the year or the regular progress checks that confirm student mastery after every three or four lessons.

PRIME V2
K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Explore Our World, Second Edition by National Geographic Learning

Explore Our World  is a seven-level young learners series from National Geographic Learning for the communicative classroom that challenges students to do and achieve more, with a listening, speaking, and pronunciation focus and cross-curricular exposure.

PRIME V2
K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12

Fast ForWord by Scientific Learning, a division of Carnegie Learning Corporation

Fast ForWord is designed to build the listening, speaking and reading skills for beginning to advanced language learners. The program provides the English phonics training, intensive grammar and vocabulary practice, and oral speaking and reading reinforcement necessary to build both basic and academic English proficiency.

PRIME V2