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This series of three packets was designed for ESOL teachers who want to incorporate math into their language classes. Each packet includes ready-to-use lesson plans and student materials. Suggestions for making activities more accessible or more challenging are included.
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This tool lays out a step-by-step, task-by-task process for designing robust ELA unit plans. The document walks you through 7 design tasks related to completing the SABES ELA Unit Plan Template. Links to helpful supports are provided within the document.
Download the tool and follow the directions…
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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 & Sequence: Template and Review Guide
Design Tasks & Resources: ELA Scope & Sequence
General Guidance
ELA Unit Plan:…
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The SABES English Language Arts team has created a video series called Creating Robust ELA Unit Plans Using the SABES Template. The video series features Lauren Twardy, an ABE teacher with Middlesex Community College, and her experiences using the SABES ELA Unit Plan template to…
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Watch a 15-minute narrated introduction to the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education (CCRSAE) for ELA. This is an update of the similar video created in 2015.
The resources referenced in this video, and additional resources and PD, are available at https://www…
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ELA Lens: CCRSAE & Standards-Based Teaching
Standards-based teaching refers to an approach to curriculum and instruction that is centered on learning standards. The learning standards used for ABE in Massachusetts are the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education (…
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Research and Evidence-Based Practices provide background information, a rationale, and evidence to support decisions around ELA teaching, curriculum, and program design.
The role of inferencing in struggling adult readers' comprehension of different texts: A mediation analysis (2023): This study…
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Welcome to the ELA Curriculum Hub
Curriculum Basics
Overview of ELA Curriculum
ACLS' Policy for Curriculum & Instruction
Introduction to the Understanding by Design Framework (foundation for the curriculum design process)
Building and Enhancing ELA Curriculum in ABE - self-paced course.…
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ELA Lens: Assessment
Effective ELA instructors include three broad types of assessment in their curriculum and instruction: diagnostic assessments, formative assessments, and summative assessments.
Diagnostic assessments are the tools and processes used, often at the beginning of a…
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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…
