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Colorado Department of Education Office of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse EducationThis site includes mostly resources for schools and educators, but also includes links to our state standards for ELD, information on state assessments, and the legal requirements that schools and districts must follow.
Colorin ColoradoThis is an excellent resource for parents and educators. It includes many articles that support English Language Learners, including things that families can do at home to help their children.
WIDAWIDA is the organization that writes the Colorado English Language Learner standards and writes the ACCESS test that we give to our ELL students. A very good resource they have are the "Can Do Descriptors" that differentiates what students at differing language abilities on average can do in different contexts that require language.