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Are you wondering about resources for teaching ELA remotely, or incorporating online elements into your face-to-face classes? Highlights of the ELA distance learning resources: Alphabetics Slides for Teaching Conducting a Writing Workshop online Create Videos and Google Forms for Vocabulary…
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This page is intended to help ELA teachers make connections to content-area subjects. Embed ELA skills within contexts! ABE ELA instructors sometimes teach social studies or science within ELA, and sometimes teach separate, dedicated classes for ELA, science, social studies, civics, study skills,…
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These free texts from CommonLit include primary source documents, poems, informational texts, and more. All include the grade and Lexile level of the text, along with a read-aloud function, translation capabilities, an annotation tool, and implementation resources such as discussion questions and…
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Described as "fast, accurate U.S. history," these free videos introduce well-known (and less well-known) topics in Black history. Topics range from Barack Obama's 2008 election, to school integration, to the first Black patent holders in the U.S.
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Go beyond trauma and struggle to examine the liberation, civic engagement, creativity, and intersecting identities of Black people during Black History Month.
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The College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education (CCRSAE) are about WHAT to teach, not HOW. Teachers must bring them to life in the classroom. A Teacher’s Guide to the CCRSAE for Level A and Level B Adult Learners, by John Strucker, EdD, will help teachers of adult learners at GLE 0-3…
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The Change Agent is a biannual magazine for adult learners and educators that uses socially relevant material, with lesson plans and extensions. Recent issues contain charts showing how the magazine content and lesson plans are aligned with the CCRSAE (College and Career Readiness Standards for…
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What are these professional standards about? What is the proficiency guide for? Find out in this concise one-page summary. (Find related documents.)
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In these two videos, Massachusetts adult education teacher Joan Schottenfeld describes how she creates vocabulary videos with accompanying Google forms and how she posts them in her Google Classroom. She highlights what she does to encourage and enhance learner engagement, especially important…
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Research has identified that four components—alphabetics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension—are essential in reading development and essential in the reading process. To understand the underlying strengths and weaknesses that are affecting reading comprehension, ABE ELA teachers diagnostically…