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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 are and where they come from in order to support students’ academic learning, cultural competence, and understanding of how their communities operate…
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Priority Lenses
The Priority Lenses below are drawn from ACLS priorities stated in the Massachusetts ABE Professional Standards, the ACLS webpages for Curriculum & Instruction, and the MA Indicators of Program Quality. Teachers and programs can use these lenses to…
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Selecting texts for adult learners involves:
Analyzing text to ensure it is at the appropriate complexity level (based on diagnostic assessments of learners' reading levels)
Ensuring that texts are appropriate for adults in topic and presentation
Organizing texts in a unit or text set so that they…
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Are you wondering about resources for teaching ELA remotely, or incorporating online elements into your face-to-face classes?
Highlights of the ELA distance learning resources:
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Conducting a Writing Workshop online
Create Videos and Google Forms for Vocabulary…
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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, careers, and other topics of interest to adult learners. The links below lead to websites that can be helpful for finding background…
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These free texts from CommonLit include primary source documents, poems, informational texts, and more. All include the grade and Lexile level of the text, along with a read-aloud function, translation capabilities, an annotation tool, and implementation resources such as discussion questions and…
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Described as "fast, accurate U.S. history," these free videos introduce well-known (and less well-known) topics in Black history. Topics range from Barack Obama's 2008 election, to school integration, to the first Black patent holders in the U.S.
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Go beyond trauma and struggle to examine the liberation, civic engagement, creativity, and intersecting identities of Black people during Black History Month.
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The College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education (CCRSAE) are about WHAT to teach, not HOW. Teachers must bring them to life in the classroom.
A Teacher’s Guide to the CCRSAE for Level A and Level B Adult Learners, by John Strucker, EdD, will help teachers of adult learners at GLE 0-3…
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The Change Agent is a biannual magazine for adult learners and educators that uses socially relevant material, with lesson plans and extensions. Recent issues contain charts showing how the magazine content and lesson plans are aligned with the CCRSAE (College and Career Readiness Standards for…
