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Reading Help Wanted Ads

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Standard: Read with Understanding

Outcomes Students will read classified ads in order to find an appropriate job.

Classroom Information

GED Descriptors:
     language arts - reading
Roles:
     Family, Worker
Program Type(s)
     ESOL
NRS Learner levels (ESOL)
     3, 4, 5
Time frame:
      3-5 hours
Technology Integration
Monster Job Search
Craig's List Directory & Classified Ads News

Keywords

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Education > reading

Work > issues > job exploration

Standard: Read with Understanding

Component of Performance	How activity addresses component
Determine the reading purpose	Small group discussion on jobs and appropriate ways to find a job.






Select reading strategies appropriate to the purpose	Teacher presentation of a newspaper and students learn common abbreviations for reading help-wanted ads.






Monitor comprehension and adjust reading strategies	Whole group identification of ads and abbreviations from an actual job listing.






Analyze information and reflect on its underlying meaning	Student practicing scanning ads and answering questions about an ad.






Integrate it with prior knowledge to address reading purpose	Student presentations, reflection, and search for an ad outside the classroom.

Purposeful, Transparent, Building Expertise

Purposeful and Transparent
The lesson has the purpose of demonstrating how to find a job.

Contextual
Working and having a job are extremely important in the context of everyday life; the lesson demonstrates this importance.

Building Expertise
Students gain useful job hunting skills through the lesson.

Lesson Designer
Jennifer Anderson
NE ABLE Resource Center
(216) 261-7076
info@neable.org