AZ Adult Education Curriculum Alignment 2008-2009

Program:  ACYR  

ABE III: Writing

Standard: The adult learner uses written language to communicate in a variety of situations.  

The Writing Standard addresses the following Indicators:

A. Writing Processes  
B. Conventions of grammar and usage rules  
C. Spelling, punctuation and capitalization

 Indicator A: Applies the writing process to a variety of writing tasks.  

Writing Process

Sub-Indicators

Instructional Materials

Unit(s) and/or

Chapter(s)

Additional Instructional Resources

Assessment(s)

1. Applies the writing process to create short essays (three to four paragraphs long) in a variety of genres.

 

Compare and Contrast lesson

 

GED OPT writing Part 2

 

The Essay powerpoint

Teacher uses GED rubric

2. Writes a letter for a specific purpose using an appropriate format with a proper heading, salutation, and closing.

 

 Dear Abby Lesson

Business Letters

 

 Skillstutor

Writing: Language Mechanics

Letter generator

 teacher review

 


 

Indicator B:  Applies conventions of grammar and usage rules to complete a variety of writing tasks.

Conventions of Grammar & Usage Rules

Sub-Indicators

Instructional Materials

Unit(s) and/or

Chapter(s)

Additional Instructional Resources

Assessment(s)

1. Uses the following verb tenses: irregular past, perfect, present real conditional and habitual past.

 

SV  pre-GED

McGraw Hill GED GED

 Lesson 10

Chapters 1-5

 Skillstutor
Writing: Language Usage

 Post tests, teacher review

2. Identifies and uses basic parts of speech correctly: verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections.

 

SV  pre-GED

McGraw Hill GED GED

 all

Chapters 1-5

 Parts of Speech 

  Skillstutor Writing: Language Usage

 Post tests, teacher review

3. Identifies and corrects dangling and misplaced modifiers.

 

SV pre- GED

McGraw Hill GED GED

 Lesson 11

Chapters 1-5

Skillstutor 
Writing:  Clear Writing, and Language Grammar

 Post tests, teacher review

4. Knows the difference between colloquial and written language and complete and incomplete sentences (sentence fragments, run-ons).

 

SV pre-GED 

McGraw Hill GED GED

 Lesson 11

Chapters 1-5

 Skillstutor 
Writing: Language Usage, Sentence Structure, and Clear Writing

 Post tests, teacher review

5. Writes grammatically correct sentences appropriate to this level.

 

 Writing Topics

 

 

  teacher review

 


Indicator C: Applies correct spelling, punctuation, and capitalization

Spelling, Punctuation & Capitalization

Sub-Indicators

Instructional Materials

Unit(s) and/or

Chapter(s)

Additional Instructional Resources

Assessment(s)

1. Applies rules of capitalization to own and others’ written text.

 

 Writing Topics

 

 Cinderella

Skillstutor 
Writing::all

 teacher review

2. Punctuates using commas and quotation marks, hyphens, colons and semicolons correctly.

 

 Writing Topics

 

 Skillstutor 
Writing::all

  teacher review

3. Applies spelling rules correctly.

 

 Writing Topics

 

 Homophone List

Skillstutor 
Writing::all

  teacher review