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46. This I Believe: Tomorrow Will Be a Better Day

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Screenshot of Lesson titled Tomorrow will be a better day
Source: Screenshot of Lesson titled Tomorrow will be a better day (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 
 If you listen to NPR radio, you may hear both famous and unknowns discussing their core values and beliefs on weekly broadcasts of the radio spot “This I Believe,” a take-off on Edward R. Murrow’s original 1950s radio show. The site is an archive of all the modern broadcasts accompanied by the original print essays and contains a searchable database of thousands of other essays on numerous topics ranging from patriotism to family, to sports. Each short essay that has been broadcast on NPR has a “listen now” link to hear the authors read their essays, which provides a listening component for the ABE student. The audio can be the basis for exercises on note-taking, listening for main ideas, supporting details, and cloze (listening for missing words). New stories and materials are added regularly.

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ABE: Adult Basic Education, ESL: English as a Second Language, ASE: High School Diploma

Levels

Low, Intermediate, High, All Levels
47. TV411: Tune in to Learning Basic Math Word Problems

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Source: TV411 Tune in to Learning Math (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

This site has many activities which can be done independently by a student or in a class with a group of students. This will be a Basic Math activity. Students will watch the video: Buying for Triplets. Discuss the problem setup. Use the Example Document to work on more word problems. (Answer sheet is included in the second Example Document.) If classroom computers are available, there is also an online, interactive Web Lesson on How to Use a Calculator.

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ABE: Adult Basic Education, ESL: English as a Second Language, ASE: High School Diploma

Levels

Low, Intermediate, High, All Levels, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced
48. TV411: Utility Bill and Reading a Bar Graph

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TV411 Reading a Utility Bill
Source: https://www.tv411.org/math/basic-math/video-utility-bill (License: CC0/Public Domain)
 

This site has many activities which can be done independently by a student or in a class with a group of students. This will be a Basic Math activity. Students will watch the Utility Bill video, then they will do the online activity, Reading Charts and Graphs . Finally, students will work on online problems or worksheets from other sites..

The site also offers a wide variety of other topics in video format, many with worksheets or other resources to use. See the More Ways section below.

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ABE: Adult Basic Education, ESL: English as a Second Language, ASE: High School Diploma

Levels

Low, Intermediate, High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced
49. TV411: Writing a Summary

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This site has many activities which can be done independently by a student or in a class with a group of students. This will be a writing activity on how to summarize an article or a story. Students will watch the Summarizing video, then they will do the online activities that go along with the video. Finally, the students will practice writing a summary.

The site also offers a wide variety of other topics in video format, many with worksheets or other resources to use. See the More Ways section below.

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ABE: Adult Basic Education, ESL: English as a Second Language, ASE: High School Diploma, ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation, CTE: Career Technical Education

Levels

Low, Intermediate, High, Intermediate High, Advanced
50. University of Wisconsin: Parade of Games in PowerPoint

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Screenshot of website showing different PowerPoint Games that teach.
Source: https://sites.google.com/a/uww.edu/jonesd/home/games (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 

These PowerPoint game templates can be downloaded from the site and customized with vocabulary from your course content. The files include hyperlinks (hot spots that, when selected, go from one slide—such as a question slide—to another slide, such as a correct or incorrect answer slide).

With Word Jumble, learners are given a word taken from topics from the course content. The word is jumbled, and participants must reflect on course content in order to be able to un-jumble the word.

With Flash Cards, learners connect definitions with keywords or concepts. A definition is shown to the learners and they must make the correct association of the definition to the word or concept it defines. The games can be used as team competitions for vocabulary teaching review and reinforcement.

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Program Areas

ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation, ASE: High School Diploma, ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

All Levels
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OTAN activities are funded by contract CN220124 from the Adult Education Office, in the Career & College Transition Division, California Department of Education, with funds provided through Federal P.L., 105-220, Section 223. However, OTAN content does not necessarily reflect the position of that department or the U.S. Department of Education.