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Texas Adult Education Standards and Benchmarks
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ABE/ASE LESSON PLANS

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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

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