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Nov 21, 2024
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ABE 041 ABE High Intermediate Basic Education - Writing 4 (1 to 5 credits)
Course Description
Designed for students to learn and/or review advanced grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, and paragraph development 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.
2. Goal Setting
Student Outcomes
1. Writing
W4.1 Determine the purpose and audience for communicating in writing.
W4.2 Use multiple planning and pre-writing strategies to identify and organize a limited number of ideas to support a single purpose (such as writing to inform, to get things done, to express feelings and ideas or to persuade others) and produce a legible and comprehensible draft.
W4.3 Appropriately use both everyday and specialized vocabulary and a limited variety of simple and complex sentence structures in multiple coherent steps or a few well-constructed and linked paragraphs to convey ideas, with several supporting facts/details/examples reflecting judgment regarding appropriate language and level of formality for the intended audience.
W4.4 Use several simple revision strategies to monitor one’s own writing, make revisions based on review and feedback from others, and produce rough and final drafts. Demonstrate some attention to clarity, descriptiveness, personal voice and appropriateness of text for the intended audience.
W4.5 Make many edits of grammar (verb tense forms), spelling, sentence structure (simple/compound/complex with appropriate capitalization and punctuation), language usage and text structure, often with the help of tools such as simplified dictionaries, grammar checklists, and graphic organizers.
2. Goal Setting
G4.1 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 10-50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 10-50
Potential Methods
A. Written exercises/assignments
B. Objective tests
C. Multiple choice tests
D. Small group activities/discussions
E. Instructor observation
F. Self-assessment
G. Written tests
H. Teacher/Student interview
I. CASAS reading and math pretest
J. CASAS reading and math posttest
K. Washington State and GED rubrics
L. Performance tasks
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