Instruction - Specific Populations

ABE Low Level Learners

Curriculum – Possible lessons for your systematic teaching approach for low-level learners.
• Making Sense of Decoding and Spelling: An Adult Reading Course of Study
• Teachers and Administrators Guide
• Lesson Plans
• Learner Activity Book
• Beginning Alphabetics Tests and Tools (BATT)
• GCF Teachers Guide Everyday Life - A variety of everyday life skills, ranging from money management to job skills to cooking and more.
• Integrating Career Awareness into the ABE & ESOL Classroom
• Phonics Scope and Sequence
• Teaching Analogy Phonics

Diagnostic Testing – Suggestions of diagnostic tools to help teachers find skill gaps in their low-level learners.
• Beginning Alphabetics Tests and Tools (BATT)
• Diagnostic Assessment Procedure Schematic
• Quick and Easy Fluency Assessments
• Sylvia Greene's Informal Word Analysis Inventory
• Word Meaning Test (WMT)

Instructional Approaches – Consider these teaching practices for your low-level learners.
• An Explanation of Structured Literacy and a Comparison to Balanced Literacy
• Contextual Learning
• Explicit Instruction
• Language Experience Approach
• Strategies for Reading Instruction

Leveled Text – Selection of free text available for teaching skills in context to your low-level learners.
• Marshall Leveled Reading Program
• Southwest Adult Basic Education: Reading Skills for Healthcare Workers
• Newsela
• Reading Skills for Today's Adults
• Read Naturally
• Eureka Trade Books
• Beginnings
• PDN Library
• Six-Way Paragraphs
• Reading Fluency Readers
• Teaching Phonics & Word Study in the Intermediate Grades
• Jamestown Timed Readings by Edward Spargo

Literacy Research to Practice Articles – Find research-based information that pertains to low-level learners.
• Techniques for Teaching Beginning-Level Reading to Adults
• Teaching Adults to Read
• Teaching Adult to Read (2005)
• Applying Research in Reading Instruction for Adults First Steps For Teachers
• Tutor Ready Reading Videos
• Writing Next
• Tutor Ready Writing https://www.literacyworks.org/tutor-ready-writing or https://www.youtube.com/user/CSLmultimedia/search
• Improving Adult Literacy Instruction: Developing Reading and Writing (2012)
• Supporting Learning and Motivation (2012)
• What Is Evidence-Based Reading Instruction and How Do You Know It When You See It?

Additional Resources – Collection of websites to explore more about low-level learners.

• Literacy Minnesota ESL and Adult Basic Education
• Tutor Flipbook
• ProLiteracy Education Network Courses and Resources - Membership needed.
• LDA Adult Literacy Reading Programs
• Orton-Gillingham Method
• Project Read
• Wilson Reading System

Corrections

• Building the Technology Ecosystem for Correctional Education: Brief and Discussion Guide - This resource explores the technical, instructional, and other components necessary for expanding the use of technology in correctional education programs.
• Integrated Education and Training in Corrections - provides resources and technical assistance for adult educators interested in developing and delivering IET programs in correctional facilities. This project develops tools and resources that supplement the Reentry Education Tool Kit.
• Reentry Education Tool Kit - guidelines, tools, and resources to help education providers implement the Reentry Education Framework, which has five critical components—program infrastructure, strategic partnerships, education services, transition processes, and sustainability.
• LINCS Correctional and Reentry Education Resource Collection - Review materials about working with adults in prisons, jails, community, and juvenile settings; program planning and career counseling for adults in re-entry programs; and designing instruction and program services for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated adults.

High School Equivalence (HSE)

• GCF GED® Core Skills – GED® prep using the top online resources.
• GED® Testing Service - the official site contains information and resources to help students prepare for the test.
• HiSET® - the official site contains information and resources to help students prepare for the test.
• Tuesdays for Teachers - A free professional development webinar series designed for GED® educators. This webinar series takes a deeper dive into classroom strategies and techniques for the GED® test.