ELA: Resources, Research and Curriculum

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Reading Instruction: Our Rights, Our Freedoms (full lesson) Brooke Machado teaches a remote high school level Social Studies/ELA class on the rights...

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The Just Write! Guide is a downloadable PDF resource guide for ABE teachers, intended to increase familiarity with evidence-based writing instruction...

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The English Language Arts Proficiency Guide for Teachers of Adult Basic Education, often referred to as the ELA Proficiency Guide, is based on the ABE...

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Research has identified four essential components to the process of reading and, thus, to reading instruction: alphabetics, fluency, vocabulary, and...

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ELA Lens: Culturally Responsive Teaching Culturally responsive teaching is a framework that guides ELA teachers in connecting with who their learners...

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The SABES ELA PD Center has developed three ELA What-to-Look-For guides (a.k.a., "Look-For" guides) in collaboration with ACLS to support teacher...

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Texts that adult learners read for instruction should be at an appropriately complex level and relate to the unit topic. Care should also be taken to...

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This page is intended to help ABE practitioners embed ELA skill instruction in knowledge-building lessons and units related to social studies, science...

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This page shares templates and resources for developing English Language Arts curriculum for ABE in Massachusetts. ELA Templates & Guides ELA Scope &...

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Click on the resource below to view a list of the English Language Arts professional development events from October 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026...

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