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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: Somewhere in Time

Setting: ABE/ASE

NRS Level(s): Level 3: Low Intermediate Basic Education

Open entry/exit: No

Context: Family

Standard(s): ABE/ASE Convey Ideas in Writing

Benchmark(s): 1.3, 2.3, 3.3, 4.3, 5.3

Objective: To relay a personal story in a narrative and organized form.

Materials: Paper, pencils and pictures of family members.

Estimated time needed to prepare for this lesson plan: 15 minutes

Estimated time needed to complete this lesson plan: 1 hour

The Lesson Plan

Introduce the lesson:
Show pictures of various families. Include different sizes of families, different cultures, different ages and different geographic locations. Interact with students commenting about likenesses and differences.

Teach the lesson:
Tell students they are being asked to write about a memory. Suggest they think about the following questions as they being their story. What kind of house do you remember living in? What is a memory of that house? Tell something about all the family members who lived in the house. Was the house in a town or in the country? What were the games you played? What were some of the foods you enjoyed?

Practice the lesson:
Students write narratives about their memories of home in an organized format.

Assess the lesson:
Observe students as they write. Assist if help is requested. Have students share their stories on a voluntary basis.

Apply the lesson to the real world:
To enhance writing skills, have students think about subjects they could write about from real like experiences.

Submitted by: Dories Vardell

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