ABE 024 ABE Beginning Basic Education - Integrated 2 (1 to 15 credits)
Course Description
Designed for students to learn and/or review beginning grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, paragraph development, reading comprehension and math skills in preparation for passing of the GED exam or college entry exam.
Course Content
1. Washington State Adult Learning Standards – ABE/GED
> To convey ideas in writing
a. Determine the purpose for communicating.
b. Organize and present information to serve the purpose.
c. Pay attention to conventions of English language usage, including grammar, spelling, and sentence structure, to minimize barriers to reader’s comprehension.
d. Seek feedback and revise to enhance the effectiveness of the communication.
> To read with understanding
a. Determine the reading purpose.
b. Select reading strategies appropriate to the purpose.
c. Monitor comprehension and adjust reading strategies.
d. Analyze the information and reflect on its underlying meaning.
e. Integrate it with prior knowledge to address reading purpose.
> To use math to problem solve
a. Understand, interpret, and work with pictures, numbers, and symbolic information.
b. 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 as a mathematical dimension.
c. Define and select data to be used in solving the problem.
d. Determine the degree of precision required by the situation.
e. Solve problems using appropriate quantitative procedures and verify that the results are reasonable.
f. Communicate results using a variety of mathematical representations, including graphs, charts, tables, and algebraic models.
2. Goal Setting
Student Outcomes
1. Writing
W2.1 Determine the purpose and audience for communicating in writing.
W2.2 Follow a highly structured plan to identify and organize a limited number of ideas to support a single purpose and produce a legible and comprehensible draft.
W2.3 Appropriately use familiar vocabulary (based on personal experience and learning) and basic text structure of simple steps/instructions/commands or a single paragraph to convey an idea with supporting details and examples.
W2.4 Demonstrate beginning attention to revision strategies including rereading and revising based on review and feedback from others.
W2.5 Make basic edits of grammar (verb tenses, subject/verb agreement), simple and compound sentences, capitalization, spelling and punctuation (end periods, some commas).
2. Reading
R2.1 Decode and recognize everyday and some unfamiliar words in short text by drawing on content knowledge, oral vocabulary and sight words, breaking words into parts for the purpose of aiding decoding and comprehension, applying pronunciation rules, and adjusting reading pace.
R2.2 Demonstrate familiarity with simple, everyday content knowledge and vocabulary.
R2.3 Locate important items of information in simplified text using some simple strategies.
R2.4 Monitor and enhance comprehension using various strategies, such as rereading, restating, recalling, copying and rephrasing text; or using a simplified dictionary.
R2.5 Apply prior knowledge to assist in selecting texts and in understanding the information they contain.
3. Mathematics
M2.1 Read, write, and interpret very simple types of mathematical information such as
Numbers and number sense: whole numbers (three digit numbers), common monetary values, and benchmark fractions (1/2, 1/4) and percents (50%).
Patterns/Functions/Relationships: very simple patterns, commonly-used denominations/groupings (5s, 10s, 25s), and very simple proportions (2:1, 1:2).
Space/Shape/Measurement: high frequency standard units of measurement (pounds, feet, quarts, gallons), geometric shapes, and concepts of length and width.
Data/Statistics: very simple ways to interpret and represent data (checksheets, picture graphs, unambiguous bar graphs, line plots) emphasizing frequency of occurrence.
M2.2 Begin to evaluate reasonableness of solutions. Add and subtract whole numbers through three digits, and multiply and divide three digit numbers by one digit numbers. Recall and use mathematical procedures such as basic estimating, counting, sorting, ordering, grouping, adding on (using counting or a calculator), and measuring length and weight using tools calibrated with whole numbers (rulers, manipulatives).
M2.3 Evaluate the degree of precision needed for the solution.
M2.4 Extract discrete information from simple and concrete data and graphs, and measure with appropriate tools, describe patterns, and/or use computational procedures effectively to solve a problem and to verify that the solution is reasonable.
M2.5 Communicate the solution to the problem orally, in role plays, with pictures, or by entries on a simple chart.
4. Goal Setting
G2.1 Monitor progress on educational goals as they relate to their roles as students, workers, citizens, and family members.
Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking:
Graduates will be able to question, search for answers and meaning, and develop ideas that lead to action.
Effective Communication:
Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
Lecture Contact Hours 10-150
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 10-150
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