MN ABE Connect Archive
Recent Newsletter Articles
How to Eat an Elephant: Increasing Your Students’ Success on the GED Extended Response
Do your students struggle with writing? This article gives tips and insights that the author gained by attending a session that focused on the GED extended response at this year's COABE conference. It includes links to resources that GED writing teachers will find helpful. Read More
Formative Assessment: Helping to See If Students “Get it”
What IS formative assessment? Read on for an introduction, and then register for an exciting ABE webinar opportunity on May 1! Read More
Street Law Resources for Navigating Systems
The lessons and activities in the Street Law Resource Library are very much worth checking out. They provide excellent opportunities to engage in meaningful dialogue and sharpen critical thinking skills, and they will help our learners avoid pitfalls when navigating a wide variety of systems. Read More
MN ABE/ESL Teachers Find Success with Teaching Analogy Phonics
Teaching Analogy Phonics (TAP) provides ABE/ESL teachers with resources for teaching phonograms and word families. Read on to find out how two Beginning ESL teachers recently used TAP with great success! Read More
ELA + Math = ? (Part 2 of 3)
“Teacher, I can do the math, but I haaaaate word problems!” I teach math and GED preparation for the Minnesota Literacy Council. I often hear complaints such as: “I never know what they are saying or what the problem is asking.” So what can we do about it? Read More
ELA + Math = ? (Part 1 of 3)
The more time we spend with the College & Career Readiness Standards, the more overlap we discover among the ELA strands and the math domains and practices. Drawing on this overlap can create powerful teaching and learning! Read on for the first of three articles on crossfitting ELA and Math. Read More
New Resource for Teaching the “Top 10” 21st Century Skills
Have you been searching for a soft skills curriculum that contains ready to use lessons? How about tools for assessment? The "21st Century Skills Resources" from New World of Work might be just what you need. And did I mention that it's all free? Read on to learn more. Read More
Important GED Accommodation Updates
GED Testing Service provides reasonable and appropriate accommodations to individuals with documented disabilities who demonstrate a need for accommodations. Read on to learn about new important updates to accommodation scheduling and testing options for GED students. Read More
More about Morpheme Matrices: Lessons for Longer Word Assembly
Teaching morphemes makes a difference! Knowing more of the common or high-frequency morphemes used in English can improve accurate word reading, word spelling, and word recognition. In turn, these word skills can benefit the text skills of reading fluency and reading comprehension. Read More
CASAS GOALS: What Do We Know?
The new CASAS Reading GOALS test series has received a full 7-year approval from the U.S. Dept. of Education for use in the federal National Reporting System (NRS) at all levels of Adult Basic Education and Adult Secondary Education. What does this mean for ABE programs in Minnesota? Read More