1. Choose the activity for your students’ grade level
Open the activity that matches your students:
Grades 2–3
Open the Grades 2–3 WIDA Snapshot
Grades 4–5
Open the Grades 4–5 WIDA Snapshot
Grades 6–8
Open the Grades 6–8 WIDA Snapshot
Grades 9–12
Open the Grades 9–12 WIDA Snapshot
The link will open a preview of the activity.
If you’re already signed in to Speakable, click Assign Activity at the top of the page.
If you’re not signed in, click Login. If you don’t have a Speakable account yet, click Create Account. Once you’re signed in, return to the activity and click Assign Activity.
You do not need to save or edit the activity before assigning it.
2. Choose how to assign it
If your plan includes Assessment Mode, we recommend using it for the snapshot. This lets students complete the activity before seeing their results.
If you only have Practice Mode, that works too. You do not need to change any of the grading or feedback settings included with the activity.
Select the class you want to use and finish assigning the activity.
3. Have students complete both responses independently
Each snapshot includes:
One spoken response
One written response
Ask students to use their own words and respond as fully as they can.
For the most useful starting snapshot, students should complete the responses independently without rehearsing answers, using model responses, or getting help rewriting what they want to say.
4. Review the results
After students submit, open the assignment in Speakable to view the results.
Review each student’s:
Spoken response
Written response
WIDA proficiency estimate for each response
Actual language they produced
The spoken and written estimates may be different. That’s useful information. A student may currently communicate more effectively in one mode than the other.
5. Don’t use the percentage grade as the WIDA result
These activities use Standards-Based Grading with WIDA Level 1 as the target.
That is intentional.
As long as a student submits a scorable response, they should receive full points. So a score of 100% means the response met the minimum target for the activity. It does not mean the student is at the highest WIDA proficiency level.
For this snapshot, focus on the WIDA proficiency estimate and the language the student actually produced.
6. Decide where to focus first
You’re not trying to assign each student one definitive WIDA level from two responses.
Instead, use the snapshot to quickly identify things like:
Who may need more support at the beginning of the year?
Who can already produce connected, detailed language?
Who appears stronger in speaking than writing, or vice versa?
Which students would you like to observe or assess more closely?
The goal is to give you a useful starting point for the first few weeks of instruction.
A quick note
These activities are classroom snapshots. They are not official WIDA assessments and do not replace ACCESS.