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READY FOR THE REAL THING: New ESOL book for beginning/high beginning level students, with accompanying activity set.

NYSED/CUNY Fast Track GRASP Math Packets: Study materials in high-priority topic areas on the math HSE exam, along with initial assessments and practice test questions. The latest packets are: Three-Dimensional Geometry and Proportional Reasoning

Slow Reveal Graphs Collection: These graphs and sense-making questions are focused on specific GED Social Studies and Science skills. Ready for use in your classroom. (Try matching with texts from the NYSED/CUNY Life Science Text Collection and the NYSED/CUNY Civics Text Set.)

Independent Study Materials and Practice Test Questions: Sources of test questions in math, social studies, science, and ELA which can be used with students.

Using the Change Agent in Math Class

The Change Agent is an adult education magazine for social justice, written by and for adult education students and adult education teachers. Each issue is centered around a theme – recent themes have included Mental Health, the Pandemic, Indigenous Peoples, Our Immigration Stories, and We Take Action.

Many ELA classes in adult education use the Change Agent to study reading, writing, social studies and science. But the Change Agent is also a fantastic resource for math class!

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2023 Voter Engagement Resources for Adult Literacy Programs

The 2023 New York City Primary Elections are here! Early voting has started and the final day to vote is June 27th, 2023! All 51 City Council seats, plus some District Attorney and judicial races, are on the ballot this year. 

The Literacy Assistance Center (LAC) has partnered with Community Votes and a group of nonprofit adult literacy education programs to integrate voter engagement into their ongoing programs. Nonpartisan voter education, outreach, registration, and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) activities are opportunities to engage students and community members around the upcoming elections. Voter engagement not only encourages students to vote, but also to reach members of their communities to vote on Election Day. 

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Slow Reveal Graphs Collection

A slow reveal graph is a teaching tool that starts with a numberless graph (or map, diagram, etc.) without labels. As the class notices and wonders about the graph, the teacher slowly reveals the original text and numbers until the class is looking at the complete original graph. The process allows students and teachers to focus on specific parts of the graph and do a close reading and analysis. For more information about slow reveal graphs, please visit Slow Reveal Graphs | CollectEdNY. For more graphs you can use in the classroom, please visit the CUNY data, graphs and maps collection.

New graphs are added to the collection weekly! –> Download

This collection of slow reveal graphs was originally created by Tim Berrigan, a NYSED Teacher Leader from the Brooklyn Public Library, to respond to the fact that mathematical reasoning is required on the Social Studies and Science sections of the GED. While working with slow reveal graphs, students practice the following skills: fact vs. opinion, evidence and conclusions, using data to make predictions, dependent and independent variables, correlation and causation, mean, median, mode, and range in statistics.

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Reading Skills for Today’s Adults: New Updates!

You may be familiar with the Southwest ABE’s Reading Skills For Today’s Adults website, where you can find readings on a variety of topics and at different levels. As with any materials, you need to look through and see which might fit your needs. As my colleague Kate Brandt (CUNY HSE PD team) said in her CollectEd post, the best feature of the website is the audio: students can read along while listening to an audio of the text read at three different speeds: slow, medium, and fast. There are also sets of questions attached to each text that students can print out and write answers to, and each text also includes supplementary worksheets with vocabulary, close paragraphs, and fill-in-the-blank exercises.

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One Stop Shopping for HSE Teachers at the District 79 Curriculum site

In record time, District 79 in New York City has set up its website for transition to the GED test, and there is a wealth of resources here. Teachers can click on a number of categories on the sidebar, such as general GED resources; Reasoning through Language Arts; Social Studies, and Science, as well as Reading Strategy Resources and Writing Strategy Resources.

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