Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This publication outlines the components, structure, and process involved with creating an adult citizenship education curriculum.

Beginning Alphabetics Tests and Tools (BATT) strives to provide a ‘principled’ system for ABE/ESL teachers who want and/or need to develop their students’ knowledge of Roman alphabet letters, English letter-sound patterns, sight or high frequency words, and transfer of those lettersound-word skills to text fluency and comprehension.

This resource looks particularly at different activities and strategies to enhance classroom cohesion. 

The resource explores students' mindsets and how it affects how they learn math. It also identifies core teaching principles and provides teaching materials to support those principles. 

This resource looks at suggested professional development activities for social studies, science, mathematics, and other content areas. 

This framework aims to help students learn basic science content knowledge while developing their reading, writing, and analytical skills.

The Social Studies: Integrating Reading & Writing Curriculum Framework incorporates U.S. history, basic economics and civics concepts, and geography, using the U.S. timeline as an organizing principle, or “backbone.”

This curriculum provides activities and materials for integrating ESL education and community-based tasks. 

This is an English learner's guide to health care and healthy living. 

The Clean Energy Ambassadors Curriculum Resource Guide is a collection of materials, lessons and activities that adult educators can use to integrate clean energy concepts into their curricula.

This document presents the 2013 Life Science Strand of the Massachusetts ABE Science Framework.

This framework identifies the key scientific ideas and practices adults should have to engage in public discussions on science-related issues, be careful consumers of scientific and technical information, and enter the careers of their choice.

This resource includes “mini-lessons” for teaching intermediate alphabetics skills: compounds, syllable types and rules, common suffixes, prefixes, and roots.

This paper released in May 2010 by the Workforce Strategy Center summarizes findings from their staff investigating the skills needed for low-income, low- skilled people to obtain green energy jobs. 

 This guide is a compilation of practices developed and implemented by community colleges involved in the Breaking Through initiative from 2005 through 2008.

Integrating Career Awareness into the ABE & ESOL Classroom is a ready-to-use, flexible curriculum that adult educators can use to incorporate career awareness and planning into their instructional and counseling activities.

This seven-unit curriculum for teaching customer service skills to English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) includes an instructor guide and student workbook.

This is a comprehensive 12-lesson curricula designed for intermediate to advanced ABE and ESOL classes, although it can be adapted for lower or higher levels as well.

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