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CCRS Standards in Action: Literacy: Determining author's position, via Pros and Cons: Technology in Our Daily Lives: Advanced Unit Part III
This lesson is focused on the pro/con format and on how to use the claim of and supporting evidence in a text to determine the author’s position on a topic. The texts selected for the lesson focus on building students’ knowledge of current advances in technology. (U.S. Dept of Ed. OCTAE)
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MA ABE Professional Standards
The Massachusetts Professional Standards for Teachers of Adult Basic Education (often referred to as the ABE Professional Standards) outlines what is important for effective adult basic education (ABE) teachers of mathematics and/or English language arts (ELA) to know and be able to do. At-a-…
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ELA Vignettes
  SABES has created ELA-based vignettes that illustrate one or more of the indicators included in the ABE Professional Standards (DESE 2021). The vignettes draw from the Supporting Explanations, Indicators, and Sample ELA Applications in the ELA Proficiency Guide (DESE 2022). The…
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Integrating AI Literacy Into ELA Instruction
At the beginning of 2024, the SABES English Language Arts (ELA) PD Center partnered with colleagues at World Education to host our first iteration of CampGPT for ELA. This professional development series allowed participants to explore how generative artificial intelligence, or GenAI-enabled tools…
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ELA What-to-Look-For Guides
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 effectiveness in ABE. These guides are part of the Classroom Visit Toolkit–A Holistic Approach to Classroom Observations.  Organized by level, the…
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A ProLiteracy Research Brief: Contextualizing Adult Education
In September 2020, ProLiteracy released a research brief focused on the importance of contextualizing adult education. Read more to learn about what research has to say and strategies to contextualize instruction with adult learners. 
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ELA Lens: Assessment
 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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Inside the Letterbox: How Literacy Transforms the Human Brain
This Dana Foundation article describes how brain-scanning technology and cognitive tests on a variety of subjects by one of the world’s foremost cognitive neuroscientists have led to a better understanding of how a region of the brain responds to visual stimuli. The results could profoundly…
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ELA Unit: Various Variables: Using Scientific Thinking to Solve Real-Life Problems (GLE 4-8)
Various Variables: Using Scientific Thinking to Solve Real-Life Problems is a contextualized science unit developed for a science/English language arts class at the intermediate level (GLE 4–8). It should follow a unit on the basics of the scientific method as this Various Variables unit…
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ELA Unit: Innovations & Society (FOCUS: Second Industrial Revolution) (GLE 4-8)
Innovations & Society (FOCUS: Second Industrial Revolution) explores the events and changes within the United States related to the inventions, technologies, and advances that transformed the growing United States from an agriculturally based economy to the industrial giant it became. The…
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