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HSED/GED SOCIAL STUDIES-LEARNING CENTER - SURVEY
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Reading Comprehension Skills
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Overview
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Reading Comprehension Skills
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Developer(s)
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Sherry simmons
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Date
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6/30/2003
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Purpose
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This learning plan will introduce basic elements of comprehension skills with practice exercises and performance assessment on GED materials. Use the pre-assessment test as a guide to choosing ONLY the components you need.
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Prerequisites
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Before beginning you will have worked with your instructor to take a pretest, score it and develop a personal learning plan.
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Target Competency
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Demonstrate reading comprehension skills
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Performance Standards
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You will demonstrate your competence:
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completing practice tests in GED social studies related materials
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Your performance will be successful when:
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you summarize the main idea in short passages
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you summarize the main idea in graphic material
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you restate information in a short passage
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you restate information in graphic material
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you identify implications in a short passage
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you identify implications in graphic material
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you distinguish conclusions from suppotring detail
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Learning Objectives
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This learning plan addresses the following learning objectives to help you master the competency:
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recognize summaries of main ideas in short passages
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recognize summaries of main ideas in graphic material
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recognize restated information in a short passage
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recognize restated information in graphic material
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recognize implications in a short passage
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recognize implications in graphic materials
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distinguish conclusions from supporting detail
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Learning Activities
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READ Chapter 1 "Comprehending Social studies Materials" in contemporary's GED Social Studies pp. 27-42 and COMPLETE all practice exercises assigned OR
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CHOOSE (optional or alternative) from Steck-Vaughn's GED Social Studies lessons: 1,2,7,16,18.
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READ and COMPLETE only the Social studies exercises in Strategies 1, 2, and 3 in GED ScoreboosterCritical Thinking for Reading
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GRAPHICS- READ and COMPLETE Social studies components in Strategies 1, 2, 3, 4, and 10 in GED scorebooster Graphic skills
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Assessment Activities
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COMPLETE PP. 12-13 in GED Scorebooster Thinking Skills for Reading. Correct with your instructor.
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HSED/GED SOCIAL STUDIES-LEARNING CENTER - SURVEY
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Reading Application Skills
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Overview
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Title
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Reading Application Skills
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Developer(s)
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Sherry Simmons
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Date
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6/30/2003
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Purpose
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To use GED materials to practice and assess reading application skillsUse the pre-assessment test as a guide to choosing ONLY appropriate lessons.
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Prerequisites
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Before beginning you will have worked with your instructor to take a pertest, score it and develop a personal learning plan.
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Target Competency
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Demonstrate reading application skills
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Performance Standards
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You will demonstrate your competence:
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by completing practice tests in GED social studies materials
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Your performance will be successful when:
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you apply information from short passages to new contexts
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you apply information from graphic materials to new comtexts
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Learning Objectives
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This learning plan addresses the following learning objectives to help you master the competency:
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Apply information from a short passage to new contexts
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Apply information from graphic material to new contexts
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Learning Activities
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READ Chapter 2 "Applying Social Studies concepts: in Contemporary's GED social studies, pp. 43-58 and COMPLETE all practice exercises assigned. OR
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CHOOSE(for optional or alternative activity) from Steck-vaughn's GED Social Studies Lesson 14 and 15.
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READ and COMPLETE only Social studies components in Strategy 4 in GED Scorebooster Critical Thinking for Reading pp.8-9.
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GRAPHICS- READ and COMPLETE exercisesin contemporary's GED Social Studiespp. 51-52 and 55-58.
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Assessment Activities
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COMPLETE Lesson 7 in Steck-vaughn's GED Skills Book Higher Order Thinking Skills pp. 21-23. correct errors with instructor.
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HSED/GED SOCIAL STUDIES-LEARNING CENTER - SURVEY
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Overview
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Reading Analysis skills
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Developer(s)
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Sherry Simmons
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Date
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6/30/2003
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Purpose
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Analysis skills will be practiced in and assessment made in GED materials Use the pre assessment test as a guide to choose only the appropriate activities.
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Prerequisites
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before beginning you will have worked with your instructor to take a pretest, score it, and develop a personal learning plan.
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Target Competency
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3.
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Demonstrate reading analysis skills
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Performance Standards
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You will demonstrate your competence:
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by completing practice tests in GED social studies materials
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Your performance will be successful when:
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you distinguish facts from opinion and hypotheses in short passages
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you distinguish fact from opinion and hypotheses in graphic material
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you recognize information used to persuade
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you recognize unstated assumptions in short passages
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you recognize unstated assumptions in political cartoons
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you identify cause and effect relationships
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you recognize point of view and historical context
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you identify comparison and contrasts
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you determine theimplications, effects and values of graphic data presented in different ways
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Learning Objectives
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This learning plan addresses the following learning objectives to help you master the competency:
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Distinguish facts from opinion from hypotheses in short passages
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Distinguish fact from opinion from hypotheses in graphic materials
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c.
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Recognize information used to persuade
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d.
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Recognize unstated assumptions in short passages
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e.
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Recognize unstated assumptions in political cartoons
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Identify cause nad effect relationships
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Recognize point of view and historical context
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Identify comparisons and contrasts
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Determine the implications, effects and values of graphic data presented in different ways
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Learning Activities
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READ Chapter 3 "Analyzing Social Studies Materials" in contemporary's GED Social Studies pp. 59-98 and COMPLETE all practice exercises assigned. OR
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CHOOSE (optional or alternative) from Steck-Vaughn's GED Social studies lessons: 3,4,6,9,10,11,12,19.
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READ and COMPLETE only the social Studies exercises in Stratagies 5-8 in GED scorebooster Critical Thinking for Reading pp. 14-21.
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GRAPHICS- READ and COMPLETE Strategy 8 and 10 in GED scorebooster Graphic skills, pp. 20-21 and pp.28-29.
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GRAPHICS- READ and COMPLETE Lessons 1,2, and 12 in Steck-Vaughn's GED Skill Book Interpreting Visual Information, pp. 3-7 and 36-38.
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READ and COMPLETE Lesson 10 in Steck-Vaughn's GED Skills Book Higher Order Thinking Skills, pp. 30-32.
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Assessment Activities
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COMPLETE GED Practice 2: Analysis in GED SCorebooster Critical Thinking Skils, pp. 22-25. correct errors with your instructor.
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HSED/GED SOCIAL STUDIES-LEARNING CENTER - SURVEY
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Reading Evaluation and Synthesis
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Overview
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Title
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Reading Evaluation and Synthesis
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Developer(s)
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Sherry Simmons
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Date
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6/30/2003
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Purpose
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This learning plan will use GED social studies material to practice the components of reading evaluation and synthesis. Use the pre-assessment test as a guide to choosing only the appropriate activities.
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Prerequisites
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Before beginning you will have worked with your instructor to take a pretest, score it, and develop a personal learning plan.
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Target Competency
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4.
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Demonstrate reading evaluation skills
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Performance Standards
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You will demonstrate your competence:
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by taking a practice test in social studies related material
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Your performance will be successful when:
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you judge information in short passages
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you judge information in graphic material
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you synthesize information in short passages
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you assess the adequach of supporting data
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you compare and contrast different viewpoints
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you identify faulty reasoning
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you recognize values in short passages
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you regognize values in graphic material
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Learning Objectives
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This learning plan addresses the following learning objectives to help you master the competency:
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Develop criteria to recognize logical conclusions in short passages
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Develop criteria to recognize logical conclusions in graphic materials
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Recognize the influence of values in information presented i | | | | | | | |