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: Paragraph Proficiency
Setting: ABE/ASE
NRS Level(s):
Level 1: Beginning ABE Literacy
Level 2: Beginning Basic Education
Open entry/exit: Yes
Context: Academic
Standard(s): ABE/ASEConvey Ideas in Writing
Benchmark(s): 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2
Objective: To prepare learners to write using more articulate and sophisticated sentence structure, paragraph building, and story telling.
Materials: None
Estimated time needed to prepare for this lesson plan: 30 minutes
Estimated time needed to complete this lesson plan: 12 hours (3 hours once a week for 4 weeks)
The Lesson Plan
Introduce the lesson:
Review with students how to build a proper sentence and how to recognize
the purpose of a sentence.
Teach the lesson:
Distribute handouts that provide students with several examples of paragraphs.
As a class, students will read paragraphs from articles, books, or
other resources. Class discussion should be focus on students identifying
the main idea of the story, paragraphs, and sentences. Then they should
be asked to identify the thesis of the story. They should paraphrase
the story, paragraphs, and sentences.
Practice the lesson:
Individually, students write their papers in class on a topic of their
choice. As the students write their papers, the teacher should provide
constructive criticism, and help them make corrections. Students can
be given the option of working on another paragraph or reading other
paragraphs from other reading materials, looking for the topic sentences,
and analyzing how the sentences are structured.
Assess the learning lesson:
Teacher should provide constructive criticism to each student as they
are writing their papers.
Apply the lesson to the real world:
Students can apply the learning from lesson to writing paragraphs that
are acceptable for standardized testing.
Submitted by: Summer Carrillo
