ABE: Adult Basic Education

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Use this site for basic math practice for students. The site has many options for creating math exercises:

• Can select timing between problems
• Can select single or multiple kinds of math problems
• Can choose to show no new problems if the answer is wrong
• The site will keep score and shows percentage of correct responses

The site has a metric converter, math glossary, printable empty multiplication table, and links to other math sites. Easy to navigate.

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If your basic math students need practice using basic math functions, then this site has Whole Number Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division in a flashcard format. It can be timed too.

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Flickr Toys, also known as Big Huge Labs, is the Website for doing creative, fun projects with digital images that the user uploads, or by using Flickr images, Photobucket images, or entering the URL (Web address) for an online image.

By uploading a photo, a wide range of special effects can be added, including adding a museum-style matte, making a jigsaw puzzle from a photo, making a mosaic from several pictures, adding photo frames, giving a photo a Warhol effect (a la Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe pop art—see sample below), transforming a photo into bead art, making a cube of photos, making a photo collage, and creating a pocket-sized photo album.

For literacy, ABE, and other classes, the site's other image tools can be used as the bases for writing and speaking assignments. The types of projects both instructors and students can do using the site are numerous.

For this activity, have students make a monthly calendar with a class photo.

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For this activity, students will create a motivational poster from a famous quote or proverb using the Web site Big Huge Labs. As a follow-up, students can make an oral presentation or write a paragraph explaining the importance of this quote or proverb in their lives.

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Breaking News English is a Web site that contains numerous reading lessons on a variety of high-interest news items that have been put into simplified language for ESL and ABE students. The reading levels begin a level 4. The site's main page lists new entries, posted every few days in chronological order. If you are looking for a reading lesson on a specific topic, scroll down to the bottom of the home page where you can search for lessons categorized in the following groupings: Business English, Environment, Health, Lifestyle, Famous People and Gossip, Technology, and World News.