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Delaware WIDA ACCESS for ELLs Practice Test

Build Delaware WIDA ACCESS for ELLs readiness with five focused 10-question practice sets covering listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, academic language, and evidence.

Delaware WIDA ACCESS for ELLs practice sets

This Delaware WIDA ACCESS for ELLs Practice Test page provides five short practice sets with 10 original multiple-choice questions each. The sets use classroom, school, science, and community contexts to review language meaning and academic communication.

Language skills covered

  • Listening and everyday language: directions, schedules, requests, sequences, main topics, context clues, observations, and cause and effect
  • Reading and vocabulary: main ideas, details, notices, charts, inferences, academic words, comparisons, and conjunctions
  • Grammar and sentence meaning: agreement, tense, prepositions, sentence clarity, comparative adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and questions
  • Academic language and evidence: vocabulary, claims, comparisons, transitions, evidence, graphs, research questions, register, and conclusions
  • Integrated review: reading, grammar, notices, data, sequence, sentence combining, reasons, evidence, graphs, and language conclusions

How to use this page

Read each prompt carefully and imagine the listening context when one is described. Identify the key language clue, choose the best-supported answer, and review the explanation after each response.

This is supplemental State Test Practice, State Assessment Practice, and Standardized Test Practice. It does not replace current WIDA, Delaware Department of Education, official ACCESS for ELLs materials, accommodations, or testing policies.

For the Delaware assessment hub, visit Delaware State Assessments.

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Delaware WIDA ACCESS for ELLs Practice Questions

A 10-question Delaware WIDA ACCESS for ELLs practice set on grammar and sentence meaning, with answers and explanations.

Read each language task carefully, imagine the listening context when provided, choose one answer, and review the explanation after responding.

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1. QuestionMultiple choice

Which sentence is correct?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is The students are ready..

  1. Read or listen for meaning: Identify the speaker purpose, main idea, key detail, word meaning, sentence relationship, or academic clue.
  2. Use the language clue: The plural subject students takes are.
  3. Check the response: Choose the answer best supported by this Delaware WIDA ACCESS for ELLs practice task.

The plural subject students takes are.

2. QuestionMultiple choice

Which word completes the sentence? “Yesterday, I ___ a new book.”

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is read.

  1. Read or listen for meaning: Identify the speaker purpose, main idea, key detail, word meaning, sentence relationship, or academic clue.
  2. Use the language clue: Yesterday signals a completed past action, so read is correct.
  3. Check the response: Choose the answer best supported by this Delaware WIDA ACCESS for ELLs practice task.

Yesterday signals a completed past action, so read is correct.

3. QuestionMultiple choice

Which sentence uses a preposition correctly?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is The pencil is under the desk..

  1. Read or listen for meaning: Identify the speaker purpose, main idea, key detail, word meaning, sentence relationship, or academic clue.
  2. Use the language clue: Under shows the relationship between the pencil and the desk.
  3. Check the response: Choose the answer best supported by this Delaware WIDA ACCESS for ELLs practice task.

Under shows the relationship between the pencil and the desk.

4. QuestionMultiple choice

Which word completes the sentence? “Maria walked ___ the classroom and sat down.”

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is into.

  1. Read or listen for meaning: Identify the speaker purpose, main idea, key detail, word meaning, sentence relationship, or academic clue.
  2. Use the language clue: Into shows movement from outside to inside the classroom.
  3. Check the response: Choose the answer best supported by this Delaware WIDA ACCESS for ELLs practice task.

Into shows movement from outside to inside the classroom.

5. QuestionMultiple choice

Which sentence has the clearest meaning?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is The teacher gave the student a blue folder..

  1. Read or listen for meaning: Identify the speaker purpose, main idea, key detail, word meaning, sentence relationship, or academic clue.
  2. Use the language clue: The first sentence clearly identifies the recipient and the folder.
  3. Check the response: Choose the answer best supported by this Delaware WIDA ACCESS for ELLs practice task.

The first sentence clearly identifies the recipient and the folder.

6. QuestionMultiple choice

Which word best completes the sentence? “The two teams ___ practicing on the field.”

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is are.

  1. Read or listen for meaning: Identify the speaker purpose, main idea, key detail, word meaning, sentence relationship, or academic clue.
  2. Use the language clue: The plural subject teams takes are.
  3. Check the response: Choose the answer best supported by this Delaware WIDA ACCESS for ELLs practice task.

The plural subject teams takes are.

7. QuestionMultiple choice

Which sentence uses a comparative adjective correctly?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is This path is shorter than the other path..

  1. Read or listen for meaning: Identify the speaker purpose, main idea, key detail, word meaning, sentence relationship, or academic clue.
  2. Use the language clue: Shorter compares two paths correctly.
  3. Check the response: Choose the answer best supported by this Delaware WIDA ACCESS for ELLs practice task.

Shorter compares two paths correctly.

8. QuestionMultiple choice

Which word best completes the sentence? “The students listened ___ to the directions.”

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is carefully.

  1. Read or listen for meaning: Identify the speaker purpose, main idea, key detail, word meaning, sentence relationship, or academic clue.
  2. Use the language clue: Carefully describes how the students listened.
  3. Check the response: Choose the answer best supported by this Delaware WIDA ACCESS for ELLs practice task.

Carefully describes how the students listened.

9. QuestionMultiple choice

Which sentence uses a conjunction to show a reason?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is We stayed inside because it was raining..

  1. Read or listen for meaning: Identify the speaker purpose, main idea, key detail, word meaning, sentence relationship, or academic clue.
  2. Use the language clue: Because connects staying inside with the reason of rain.
  3. Check the response: Choose the answer best supported by this Delaware WIDA ACCESS for ELLs practice task.

Because connects staying inside with the reason of rain.

10. QuestionMultiple choice

Which sentence is written as a question?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is Where is the science room?.

  1. Read or listen for meaning: Identify the speaker purpose, main idea, key detail, word meaning, sentence relationship, or academic clue.
  2. Use the language clue: Where is the science room asks for information and ends with a question mark.
  3. Check the response: Choose the answer best supported by this Delaware WIDA ACCESS for ELLs practice task.

Where is the science room asks for information and ends with a question mark.

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Frequently asked questions about Delaware WIDA ACCESS for ELLs Practice

Which grades are covered?

This page provides supplemental language practice across the WIDA ACCESS for ELLs grade range listed for Grades K–12.

How many questions are included?

There are five practice sets with 10 questions each, for 50 questions in total. Each set can be completed separately.

Are these official WIDA ACCESS questions?

No. These are original supplemental practice questions. Check the latest WIDA and Delaware Department of Education information for current materials, accommodations, and policies.