Your students can become more confident and successful writers! In this workshop, learn specific instructional strategies for teaching basic writing skills to struggling writers, including students with language-based learning disabilities (LBLD) and other learning challenges. Attendees will receive an array of classroom-ready materials to scaffold writing instruction and help students move from sentence to paragraph-level writing. 

This self-paced course enables ABE instructional leaders to utilize a key resource, the ELA Proficiency Guide, to enhance English Language Arts (ELA) instruction in their programs. Along with the ABE Professional Standards, the ELA Proficiency Guide holds up a vision for effective instruction in ABE, and in this brief course, you will explore supplemental tools, resources, and PD activities to help guide teachers in using ideas from these documents to shape their own professional practice.

Fluency is an important bridge to reading comprehension. In this practical session, learn the three pillars of reading fluency—accuracy, rate, and prosody—and how to target them using Evidence-Based Reading Instruction (EBRI) strategies. 

This three-hour, on-demand, self-paced course provides a solid introduction to evidence-based reading instruction (EBRI) in ABE. Learn about the four essential components of reading (alphabetics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension) and how they interrelate, the role of diagnostic assessment, and the basic tenets of explicit instruction. 

EBRI is an approach to teaching reading grounded in research that helps us, as adult educators, be intentional about what we teach and how we teach it—so that our reading instruction in Adult Basic Education (ABE) is both engaging and effective for adult...

Learn how to assess a student's writing abilities to inform instruction and how to help students revise their writing in a productive, skills-based manner. This session will be led by the associate director of the Landmark School Outreach Program.

LD—Learning Differences, Difficulties, or Disabilities: Many of our students experience these terms firsthand, but no matter the case, it’s important that you don’t consider them a Deficit! In this workshop, we will explore some of the strategies that you can use to help students access math ideas so they can be successful math users. These strategies can be adapted to any level and used with any math content area. 

This session is the second in a series offered by the SABES ELA, ESOL, and Math Curriculum and Instruction Teams on teaching adult learners with learning disabilities.