CCR Standards Resources

This standards-aligned lesson plan template is designed to be used to incorporate the 3 CCRS ELA shifts into unit/lesson plans. This template also provides opportunities to reflect on all the major content standards used in Minnesota’s ABE system and other important components of adult literacy instruction.

This beginning ESL ELA Lesson/Unit Plan and accompanying evaluation tools covers a lesson on housing.

This CCRS Level C ELA Lesson/Unit Plan focuses on helping students to discover how birth order affects personality and behavior. This plan was originally completed by a participant in the 2017/18 CCRS Implementation Cohort.

This CCRS Level B ELA Lesson/Unit Plan focuses on students reading key health and medical language on over-the-counter medication with the goal of identifying appropriate treatments for everyday ailments. This plan was originally completed by a participant in the 2017/18 CCRS Implementation Cohort.

This CCRS Level B ELA Lesson/Unit Plan focuses on students learning about different jobs in the US, along with the skills, requirements and benefits that come with them. This plan was originally completed by a participant in the 2017/18 CCRS Implementation Cohort.

This pre-GED ELA Lesson/Unit Plan and accompanying evaluation tools cover an analysis of a Newsela article.

This GED ELA Lesson/Unit Plan and accompanying evaluation tools cover factors that led to the Revolutionary War.

This CCRS Level B/C ELA Lesson/Unit Plan focuses on students building listening comprehension, discussion, and writing skills on the academic topic of success. This plan was originally completed by a participant in the 2017/18 CCRS Implementation Cohort.

This CCRS Level B ELA Lesson/Unit Plan focuses on students exploring the concept of “history,”determining what constitutes history, and examining what might be excluded from traditional methods of determining history.

This ESL 3/ABE 2 ELA Lesson/Unit Plan and accompanying evaluation tools covers writing an email message.