Reading Lessons

Adult Basic Education Classroom

Reading Lessons

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Topic	Lesson
Recognizing that printed materials normally flow from left to right, top to bottom, front to back	ABE Lesson R-1.01 Quiz R-1.01
Recognizing that letters make words	ABE Lesson R-1.02 Quiz R-1.02
Recognizing that words make sentences	ABE Lesson R-1.03 Quiz R-1.03
Recognizing that there are spaces between words	ABE Lesson R-1.04 Quiz R-1.04
Recognizing that words on the right hand page of a book start at the top left corner	ABE Lesson R-1.05 Quiz R-1.05
Listening to and comprehending a story read aloud	ABE Lesson R-1.06 Quiz R-1.06
Narrating a picture story in a sequence	ABE Lesson R-1.07 No Quiz
Identifying letters of the alphabet	ABE Lesson R-2.01 Quiz R-2.01
Identifying single consonant sounds	ABE Lesson R-2.02 Quiz - R-2.02
Identifying single vowels	ABE Lesson R-2.03 Quiz R-2.03
Identifying rhyming patterns	ABE Lesson R-2.04 Quiz R-2.04
Understanding that word order differs between statements and questions	ABE Lesson R-2.05 Quiz R-2.05
Identifying at least 75% of the preprimer, primer, and first grade words from the Dolch list	ABE Lesson R-3.01 Quiz R-3.01
Demonstrating ability to read personal information (for example: name, address, zip code, phone number, age)	ABE Lesson R-3.03 Quiz R-3.03
Dictating and reading back his/her own stories	ABE Lesson R-3.04 No Quiz
Identifying and using repetition and rhyme in oral and written text	ABE Lesson R-6.02 Quiz R-6.02
Using personal perspective in responding to a work of literature (for example: relating characters and simple events in a story or biography to his/her own life)	ABE Lesson R-7.02 Quiz R-7.02

Identifying vowels and consonants	ABE Lesson R-8.01 Quiz R-8.01
Identifying consonant blends	ABE Lesson R-8.02 Quiz R-8.02
Identifying consonant digraphs	ABE Lesson R-8.03 Quiz R-8.03
Identifying long and short vowel sounds	ABE Lesson R-8.05 Quiz R-8.05
Identifying 98% of the words on the Dolch Words List, including the second and third grade lists	ABE Lesson R-9.01 Quiz R-9.01
Following teacher-read content text in order to develop vocabulary	ABE Lesson R-9.02 Quiz R-9.02
Recognizing the function of introductory and concluding paragraphs in an essay	ABE Lesson R-14.03 Quiz R-14.03

Beginning to classify nouns with similar characteristics under appropriate headings (for example: rose and daisy as flowers)

ABE Lesson R-16.03

Understanding that acceptable language use and structure change over time	ABE Lesson R-23.05 Quiz R-23.05
Using strategies to clarify meaning	ABE Lesson R-25.03 Quiz R-25.03
Identifying the defining characteristics of classic literature (for example: timelessness, dealing with universal themes and experiences, and communicating across cultures)	ABE Lesson R-29.01 Quiz R-29.01
Knowing how mood or meaning is conveyed in poetry through word choice, dialect, invented words, concrete or abstract terms, sensory or figurative language, use of sentence structure, line length, punctuation, and rhythm	ABE Lesson R-29.04 Quiz R-29.04
Identifying universal themes in literature	ABE Lesson R-29.05 Quiz R-29.05
Identifying the effects of the attitudes and values of a time period or culture on a specific piece of writing	ABE Lesson R-30.01 Quiz R-30.01
Developing essays to answer specific, evaluative research questions	ABE Lesson R-30.03 Quiz R-30.03