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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Intelligent Reading Comprehension Practice at English for Everyone

Ew… worksheets? But how many of us haven’t wanted practice questions that include high-quality explanations of wrong answers? And for students who struggle with reading, or repeatedly fail the HSE reading test, opportunities to practice comprehension questions and understand where they went off track is essential.

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Easy to Read Covid-19 Vaccine Resources

An easy guide “A Guide to your Covid-19 Vaccination” published by Public Health England in January 2021

Easy to read materials about the COVID-19 vaccine are essential for English Language Learners (ELLs) and basic education students. To help students keep up-to-date and well-informed on this topic, here are some resources from reliable sources to adapt for teaching or to share with students.

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Reading Skills for Today’s Adults

This website is ideal for low level readers and those who need fluency practice to do on their own. With levels from 1-16, each level features approximately ten texts on a wide range of topics, for instance: Snow Emergency, MLK Day, Pay Yourself First, Young Children and Water, Madam CJ Walker, Hybrid Cars, Dealing with Grief.

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