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General Sites of interest for ABE, GED and ESOL Teachers

ABE Teacher’s Toolkit
GED Information
Schrock’s Guide at DiscoverySchool
abcteach
Thinkfinity Literacy Network
Thinkfinity Literacy Network Course Catalog
US Department of Education
The Math Behind the Market
http://www.literacynow.info/PDF/prelit.pdf (September 2008) Recently, refugee families have been arriving from Somalia, Liberia , Sudan , Ethiopia , and Thailand to begin their new lives in communities across Washington State . Many of the adults have never had an opportunity to attend school, so they are not literate in their first language. Some have never lived in homes with electricity and plumbing or towns with buses and shopping malls. As a result, they face many challenges during their resettlement process. As they enter beginning level ESL classes, their teachers, too, are finding the task of teaching them challenging. With funding from the Refugee and Immigrant Assistance Section, the Tacoma Community House Training Project has developed this book containing a wealth of successful strategies and techniques for teaching both beginning literacy and speaking skills. The richly illustrated text includes: A list of survival competencies for speaking, listening, reading, and writing A plethora of activities for introducing, practicing, and applying these new skills to the students lives Strategies for teaching pre-literate refugees in a multi-level ESL class.