Summary Tables of Texas Adult Education Content Standards & Benchmarks

Created by M.J. Ochoa, Far West GREAT Center
July 2008 (revised January 2009)

ABE/ASE CONTENT STANDARDS
LEVEL 5 – LOW ADULT SECONDARY EDUCATION

READ WITH UNDERSTANDING • Determine the purpose for reading. • Select reading strategies appropriate to the purpose. • Monitor comprehension and adjust reading strategies. • Analyze the information and reflect on its underlying meaning. • Integrate new understanding with prior knowledge to address the reading purpose.	CONVEY IDEAS IN WRITING • Determine the purpose for communicating. • Organize and present information to serve the purpose, context, and audience. • Pay attention to conventions of English language usage, including grammar, spelling and sentence structure. • Seek feedback and revise to enhance the effectiveness of the communication.	USE MATH TO SOLVE PROBLEMS AND COMMUNICATE • Understand, interpret, and work with pictures, numbers and symbolic information. • Define and select data to be used in solving the problem. • Determine the degree of precision required by the situation. • Apply knowledge of mathematical concepts and procedures to figure out how to answer a question, solve a problem. • Make a prediction or carry out a task that has a mathematical dimension using appropriate quantitative procedures, and verify the results are reasonable. • Communicate results using a variety of mathematical representations, including graphs, charts, tables, and algebraic models.
Determine Purpose (R1.5) Determine the appropriate purpose for reading a variety of materials. Example: Reading medicine labels, voter eligibility Decode and Recognize Words (R2.5) Recognize and interpret abbreviations and some specialized content area vocabulary independently (e.g., social studies, science, and literature vocabulary). Example: Know the meanings of: Periodic table, Hemisphere, Archipelago, Metaphor, Simile Vocabulary Development (R3.5) Demonstrate familiarity with everyday and some specialized content vocabulary (e.g., science, social studies, and literature). Example: Insurance forms, tax form, biology, democracy, political science. Locate Information (R4.5) Locate important information using appropriate strategies with minimal assistance (e.g., using context cures and details, scanning) Example: Appliance manual. Build Comprehension (R5.5) Independently monitor and build comprehension strategies with a variety of texts. Example: Correcting word recognition errors, and adjusting predictions. Analyze and Organize Information (R6.5) Organize and analyze information to derive underlying meaning of texts by using classification, comparison/ contrast, making inferences, and drawing conclusions. Example: Identify figurative language	Determine Purpose (W1.5) Determine the purpose and audience for communicating in writing with limited support. Example: Plan a writing portion of the GED – use writing prompts. Organize Information (W2.5) Plan and organize a more complex composition (multi-paragraph) using a variety of resources (e.g., websites, dictionary) and strategies to: • Produce a legible and comprehensible draft. Example: Pre-write letter of recommendation. Present Information (W3.5) Convey ideas in medium-length, coherently-linked, and detailed text with appropriate tone, language and levels of formality by: • Appropriately using varied and descriptive word choices including abstract nouns and idioms and • Appropriately using a variety of sentence length, structure, and complexity. Example: Compose a multi-paragraph essay in response to a GED prompt. Revise Writing (W4.5) Work through problems posed by the writing task, including revising to improve, • Shifts in voice or tone, • Clarity and text organization, • The development and logic of ideas, • The appropriateness of text for the intended audience, • Grammar, and • Sentence structure. Edit Writing (W5.5) Use appropriate tools such as dictionaries and grammar guides to undertake multiple re-readings of text in order to edit for: • Grammar: verb tenses including, past perfect, future perfect, future perfect progressive, present unreal conditional, three part phrasal verbs, • Internal punctual: commas, colons, semicolons and hyphens, • Language usage: simple, compound and complex sentences, and • Spelling and capitalization.	Recognize and Compare Numbers (M1.5) Compare, convert and order non-equivalent forms of commonly used fractions, decimals and percents. Example: Analyze effects of deductions on earnings and project annual income. Mathematical Symbols (M2.5) • Identify and use mathematical symbols [√, Ð, °, ()] and words that represent those symbols. • Identify and compute powers and roots. Example: Given the area of a square flowerbed, what is the length of one side? Number Line and Grids (M3.5) • Identify positive and negative slopes on a coordinate grid. • Graph linear equations. Example: Given this equation: Y=3x+2 What is the slope of the line? Application of Mathematical Operations (M4.5) Model and apply meanings of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using integers. Example: Develop a budget for a home or business. Currency (M5.5) Concept mastered Measurements (M6.5) Convert units within length, weight, volume, time, and temperature. Example: Reduce or expand a recipe. Area, Perimeters, and Angles (M7.5) • Calculate area of polygons. • Calculate circumference and area of circles. • Calculate volume of rectangular solids and cylinders. • Apply the Pythagorean Theorem. Example: Plan and measure shelves. Using Ratios, Proportions, and Percents (M8.5) Use ratios, proportions, and percents to solve word problems. Example: If a flagpole is 12 feet tall and casts a shadow of 6 feet, and a man casts a shadow of 3 feet, how tall is the man? Probabilities (M9.5) Use simple probabilities to predict outcomes. Example: What is the probability of drawing a nine from a deck of cards? Graphs and Charts (M10.5) Collect, interpret, represent and draw implications from graphs, schedules, tables, and diagrams. Example: Read and interpret aquifer table/chart to determine water restriction. Averages (M11.5) Find mean, range, median, and mode. Example: Determine your readiness for the GED by finding your average score on the GED official practice test. Order of Operations and Linear Equations (M12.5) • Use order of operations (i.e., parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction – PEMDAS) to evaluate expressions with variables, including common formulas. • Express numbers in scientific notation. Example: Given: d = r t and r=4, t=6. Find d.* Patterns and Sequences (M13.5) Construct complex patterns and sequences. Example: n, 2n, 4n, 8n … Rounding and Estimation (M14.5) Concept mastered.

READ WITH UNDERSTANDING

• Determine the purpose for reading.
• Select reading strategies appropriate to the purpose.
• Monitor comprehension and adjust reading strategies.
• Analyze the information and reflect on its underlying meaning.
• Integrate new understanding with prior knowledge to address the reading purpose.

CONVEY IDEAS IN WRITING

• Determine the purpose for communicating.
• Organize and present information to serve the purpose, context, and audience.
• Pay attention to conventions of English language usage, including grammar, spelling and sentence structure.
• Seek feedback and revise to enhance the effectiveness of the communication.

USE MATH TO SOLVE PROBLEMS AND COMMUNICATE

• Understand, interpret, and work with pictures, numbers and symbolic information.
• Define and select data to be used in solving the problem.
• Determine the degree of precision required by the situation.
• Apply knowledge of mathematical concepts and procedures to figure out how to answer a question, solve a problem.
• Make a prediction or carry out a task that has a mathematical dimension using appropriate quantitative procedures, and verify the results are reasonable.
• Communicate results using a variety of mathematical representations, including graphs, charts, tables, and algebraic models.

Determine Purpose
(R1.5) Determine the appropriate purpose for reading a variety of materials.

Example: Reading medicine labels, voter eligibility

Decode and Recognize Words
(R2.5) Recognize and interpret abbreviations and some specialized content area vocabulary independently (e.g., social studies, science, and literature vocabulary).

Example: Know the meanings of: Periodic table, Hemisphere, Archipelago, Metaphor, Simile

Vocabulary Development
(R3.5) Demonstrate familiarity with everyday and some specialized content vocabulary (e.g., science, social studies, and literature).

Example: Insurance forms, tax form, biology, democracy, political science.

Locate Information
(R4.5) Locate important information using appropriate strategies with minimal assistance (e.g., using context cures and details, scanning)

Example: Appliance manual.

Build Comprehension
(R5.5) Independently monitor and build comprehension strategies with a variety of texts.

Example: Correcting word recognition errors, and adjusting predictions.

Analyze and Organize Information
(R6.5) Organize and analyze information to derive underlying meaning of texts by using classification, comparison/ contrast, making inferences, and drawing conclusions.

Example: Identify figurative language

Determine Purpose
(W1.5) Determine the purpose and audience for communicating in writing with limited support.

Example: Plan a writing portion of the GED – use writing prompts.

Organize Information
(W2.5) Plan and organize a more complex composition (multi-paragraph) using a variety of resources (e.g., websites, dictionary) and strategies to:

• Produce a legible and comprehensible draft.

Example: Pre-write letter of recommendation.

Present Information
(W3.5) Convey ideas in medium-length, coherently-linked, and detailed text with appropriate tone, language and levels of formality by:

• Appropriately using varied and descriptive word choices including abstract nouns and idioms and
• Appropriately using a variety of sentence length, structure, and complexity.

Example: Compose a multi-paragraph essay in response to a GED prompt.

Revise Writing
(W4.5) Work through problems posed by the writing task, including revising to improve,

• Shifts in voice or tone,
• Clarity and text organization,
• The development and logic of ideas,
• The appropriateness of text for the intended audience,
• Grammar, and
• Sentence structure.

Edit Writing
(W5.5) Use appropriate tools such as dictionaries and grammar guides to undertake multiple re-readings of text in order to edit for:

• Grammar: verb tenses including, past perfect, future perfect, future perfect progressive, present unreal conditional, three part phrasal verbs,
• Internal punctual: commas, colons, semicolons and hyphens,
• Language usage: simple, compound and complex sentences, and
• Spelling and capitalization.

Recognize and Compare Numbers
(M1.5) Compare, convert and order non-equivalent forms of commonly used fractions, decimals and percents.

Example: Analyze effects of deductions on earnings and project annual income.

Mathematical Symbols
(M2.5)

• Identify and use mathematical symbols [√, Ð, °, ()] and words that represent those symbols.
• Identify and compute powers and roots.

Example: Given the area of a square flowerbed, what is the length of one side?

Number Line and Grids
(M3.5)

• Identify positive and negative slopes on a coordinate grid.
• Graph linear equations.

Example: Given this equation: Y=3x+2
What is the slope of the line?

Application of Mathematical Operations
(M4.5) Model and apply meanings of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using integers.

Example: Develop a budget for a home or business.

Currency
(M5.5) Concept mastered

Measurements
(M6.5) Convert units within length, weight, volume, time, and temperature.

Example: Reduce or expand a recipe.

Area, Perimeters, and Angles
(M7.5)

• Calculate area of polygons.
• Calculate circumference and area of circles.
• Calculate volume of rectangular solids and cylinders.
• Apply the Pythagorean Theorem.

Example: Plan and measure shelves.

Using Ratios, Proportions, and Percents
(M8.5) Use ratios, proportions, and percents to solve word problems.

Example: If a flagpole is 12 feet tall and casts a shadow of 6 feet, and a man casts a shadow of 3 feet, how tall is the man?

Probabilities
(M9.5) Use simple probabilities to predict outcomes.

Example: What is the probability of drawing a nine from a deck of cards?

Graphs and Charts
(M10.5) Collect, interpret, represent and draw implications from graphs, schedules, tables, and diagrams.

Example: Read and interpret aquifer table/chart to determine water restriction.

Averages
(M11.5) Find mean, range, median, and mode.

Example: Determine your readiness for the GED by finding your average score on the GED official practice test.

Order of Operations and Linear Equations
(M12.5)

• Use order of operations (i.e., parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction – PEMDAS) to evaluate expressions with variables, including common formulas.
• Express numbers in scientific notation.

Example: Given: d = r * t and r=4, t=6. Find d.

Patterns and Sequences
(M13.5) Construct complex patterns and sequences.

Example: n, 2n, 4n, 8n …

Rounding and Estimation
(M14.5) Concept mastered.