Texas
Adult Education Standards and Benchmarks
for ABE ASE and ESL Learners
Lesson Plan Bank
ABE/ASE LESSON PLANS
Texas Adult Education Standards
Lesson Plan
Before you begin
Title: “Surprise!!!”
Setting: ABE/ASE
NRS Level(s): Level 3: Low Intermediate Basic Education
Open entry/exit: Yes
Context: Family
Standard(s): Convey Ideas in Writing.
Benchmark(s): 2.3
Objective: To identify and to organize a number of ideas to support single purpose.
Materials: Essay format, paper, pencil, and prompt on board.
Estimated time needed to prepare for this lesson plan: 30 minutes
Estimated time needed to complete this lesson plan: 1.5 hours
The Lesson Plan
Introduce the lesson:
As a class discuss openly about individual surprises the students have
experiences. An example would be a student winning a 62 in. HDTV in
a contest.
Teach the lesson:
Write on the board a few of the different surprises that the students
have experienced, then organize them into similar categories.
Practice the lesson:
Have the students think about other surprises they have experienced and
organize the surprises into similar categories. Then have the students
write short sentences about these similar surprises.
Assess the lesson:
Check students’ writings by checking sentence structure and punctuation.
Apply the lesson to the real world:
What are some surprises that we have had in our country? (i.e., death
of celebrities; a sporting event that was unbelievable, birth of children,
maybe given special time at a birthday.)
Submitted by: Laura Bush, Linda Sikes, Carol Biggs, and Charlotte McElroy
