The English Language Arts Proficiency Guide for Teachers of Adult Basic Education, often referred to as the ELA Proficiency Guide, is based on the ABE...

Research has identified four essential components to the process of reading and, thus, to reading instruction: alphabetics, fluency, vocabulary, and...

This page is intended to help ABE practitioners embed ELA skill instruction in knowledge-building lessons and units related to social studies, science...

Open the PDF below to view a list of the English Language Arts professional development events from September 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027. Each PD...

Find here: An excerpt of the full College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education ( CCRSAE)—just the ELA standards and related material...

The SABES ELA PD Team has developed three ELA What-to-Look-For guides (a.k.a., "Look-For" guides) in collaboration with ACLS to support teacher...

Teacher Reflections Boston Public Schools Adult Education teachers Karen Greaves and Brooke Machado reflect on the financial literacy and civics...

Topic: Assessment Methods Watch and listen to how the teachers use formative assessment methods in their remote classrooms to monitor student...

Topic: Close Reading Strategies Watch and listen to how the teacher builds background knowledge, then models and scaffolds close reading using a...

Reading Instruction: Our Rights, Our Freedoms (full lesson) Brooke Machado teaches a remote high school level Social Studies/ELA class on the rights...