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The STAR Vocabulary Lesson video demonstrates on how to teach vocabulary to a STAR class using explicit instruction.
Joan Schottenfeld is the teacher and also is a certified STAR trainer. She is joined in this video by her students from the Boston Centers for Youth and Families/Perkins Adult…
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SETTING DIRECTIONS
This CCR Standards-aligned unit with three accompanying lessons was created for ABE students at GLE 0–3.9. You may use and adapt these materials to fit the students and circumstances in your program.
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Our Planet, Our Choices
Thank you to Brooke Machado at the Boston Public Schools Adult Learning Center for this curriculum example. This CCR Standards-aligned unit and its three accompanying lessons were created for ABE students at GLE 6–8. Additional lessons will be added as they are created.
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Thank you to Joan Schottenfeld at BCYF Perkins for this curriculum example. This resource includes the following:
ELA Scope and Sequence for ABE students GLE 4–8 and 9–12
Unit from that Scope and Sequence titled "Human Dignity: WWII and the Holocaust," for both GLE 4–8 and 9–12
Four accompanying…
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This is a CCR Standards-aligned unit with four accompanying lessons and handouts, created for ABE students GLE 6–8. You may use and adapt these materials to fit the students and circumstances in your program.
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An excerpt of the full College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education (CCRSAE)—just the ELA standards and related material.
Charts of the leveled ELA CCR standards, formatted for 11x17 paper:
ELA Level A and Reading Foundations
ELA Level B
ELA Level C
ELA Level D
ELA Level D…
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Use the questions to guide lesson planning and classroom observation for a standards-aligned classroom that reflects the three instructional shifts of the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education (CCRSAE) for ELA.
This one-page guide, adapted from Standards-in-Action, is useful…
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For an example of one way to write a complete Unit Plan for ELA using the ACLS template, see this model from Ware for a mixed-level class, centering on CCR Level C, GLE 5-6.9. Thank you to Dani Scherer at the Ware Literacy Project for sharing her work.
In addition to the Unit Plan, this document…
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Doing Science: The Process of Scientific Inquiry—developed with the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)—is a creative, inquiry-based instruction program designed to promote active learning and stimulate student interest in medical topics. This curriculum supplement aims to help…
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For an example of one way to write an ELA Scope & Sequence, see this excerpt from Brockton for their HiSET level, GLE 9-12. Thank you to Brockton Adult Learning Center for sharing their work.
