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From COABE, the Commission on Adult Basic Education: a free resource for all adult educators to find lesson plans, videos, apps, conference presentations and professional development resources.
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The Understanding by Design framework, created by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, helps the user to design a standards-based curriculum that leads to student understanding and achievement. This online article is a good introduction.
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This website provides standards-based lesson plans centered on readings which can be sorted by GLE. While created for K-12, many are usable and adaptable for ABE students. It also includes links on Close Reading.
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This website, written for K-12 and adaptable for ABE, is designed to provide resources to help educators understand and implement the Common Core and other college and career ready standards. It includes practical tools designed to help students and teachers see their hard work deliver…
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LINCS.ed.gov has many useful resources and discussion groups. Be sure to check this site.
Noted here: College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education:
Explore the standards directly; particularly read the Introduction, pages 1-11, with special attention to page 8 (http://lincs.ed.gov/…
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EngageNY.org is developed and maintained by the New York State Education Department (NYSED) to support the implementation of key aspects of the New York State Board of Regents Reform Agenda. EngageNY.org is dedicated to providing educators across New York State with real-time, professional learning…
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This site may be especially helpful for the ASE level. It was developed for K-12 teachers but provides interesting text sets around literary- and information-based themes.
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This site provides leveled passages, mostly home-grown, written on a breadth of adult-oriented topics. Best for Levels A-D.
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This site assesses the readability of websites - just copy and paste the URL. It also gives interesting information on various readability formulas.
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This site allows you to use the Lexile Framework to find the level for a whole book. Type the name of a book into the upper right-hand corner of the site where "Quick Book Search" is indicated, and the Lexile level for the book will pop up on the screen. Compare that with the table in CCRS Reading…
