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GED Number Line – Evaluation
The resource evaluated here for math CCRS alignment is Edmentum's GED Number Line. Read More
Achieving TABE Success in Math Level D – Evaluation
The resource evaluated here for math CCRS alignment is Contemporary's Achieving TABE Success in Math Level D. Read More
Intro to Algebra, an Applied Approach – Evaluation
The resource evaluated here for math CCRS alignment is Intro to Algebra, an Applied Approach. Read More
Writing Workshops & Seminars
Do you need to brush up your own writing skills before teaching your students how to write more effectively? This website provides hundreds of free writing resources, columns, and exercises for writers and teachers of writers. Examples include apostrophes, capitalization, commas, editing, hyphens, letter writing, persuasive writing, punctuation, and verbs. Read More
Tiered Sentence Combining (TSC, 2014)
Explicit sentence combining instruction can help them write sentences that are longer, more complex or interesting, and varied in structure. This evidence-based resource provides a starting point that may ultimately improve ABE students' sentence composition, complexity, and comprehension. Read More
Vocabulary 2 – Academic Word Lists
Academic word lists 1-10, presented in order from most frequent to least frequent usage across content areas. Read More
Vocabulary 1 – Fry’s Instant Words, Phrases & Sentences
Fry's first 300 words presented in order of frequency and in simple phrases and sentences. Read More
Teaching Analogy Phonics (TAP, 2015)
Provides reading teachers and tutors with convincing background information and testimonials, a lesson plan model and template, other reinforcement ideas, and over 100 common or sequential phonogram and word family lists for immediate analogy phonics instruction. Read More
Quick and Easy Adult Reading Assessments
Quick and Easy Adult Reading Assessments test oral fluency, or the ability to read text accurately and smoothly, with grade-leveled passages. Quick and Easy Adult Reading Assessments… Read More
Morpheme Matrices (2018)
This resource is for helping students who are ready to move beyond phonics and simple words. It focuses on morphological awareness: how morphemes such as prefixes, Latin roots, Greek forms, and suffixes combine or assemble to form multi-syllable words and sometimes change meaning, part of speech, or usage. Read More