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This lesson is focused on how to find the claim of and supporting evidence in a text. Later lessons will focus on evaluating evidence and claims to figure out reliability, validity, and bias in a text. (U.S. Dept of Ed. OCTAE)
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Watch this 15-minute narrated introduction to the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education (CCRSAE) for ELA.
The resources referenced in this video, and additional resources and PD, are available at https://www.sabes.org/pd-center/ela.
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Two instructors and the director of Abisi Adult Education Center in Lowell, MA introduce you to STAR (Student Achievement in Reading) and its impact on adult learners in their school. (SABES)
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In its eight pages, "Teaching and Assessing Understanding of Text Structures Across Grades" summarizes research findings on the relationship between understanding text structure and comprehending what one reads. The author describes types of text structures and paragraphs, "typical text pattern…
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Learning to Write, Writing to Learn contains the following freely available articles.
Learning to Write, Writing to Learn is the April 2018 issue of ASCD's Educational Leadership magazine. Article descriptions are from the ASCD website. As usual, the articles are written for K-12 teachers but can…
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Join NASA education specialists to learn about activities, lesson plans, educator guides and resources that bring NASA into your classroom, through free 60-minute webinars presented by the NASA STEM Educator Professional Development Collaborative at Texas State University.
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Video and transcript on the PD Center for ELA blog the Reflective Practitioner - Water those Seeds of Learning
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This one-minute, 12-second video supplements the Reflective Practitioner blog "Why I Teach," by Joan Schottenfeld, STAR teacher and career/educational advisor at the Perkins Adult Literacy site of the Boston Centers for Youth and Families.
The blog and video refer to the program STAR: Student…
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Given the complexity of teaching reading to adult learners—who have limited time available, can be at any level in their reading development, and are likely dealing with with multiple factors beyond academics—it's useful to have a summary of methods for helping adult learners make substantial gains…
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At the time of its publication in 2002, Research-Based Principles for Adult Basic Education Reading Instruction, by John R. Kruidenier, represented "the best information available about how adults learn to read" (p. vii). It was designed to serve educators, policymakers, and researchers in the…
