Ventures 2nd Edition contains a whole new look at reading and writing in Advanced Adult ESL classes, a key focus being CCRS.
The College and Career Readiness (CCR) Standards for Adult Education promote three important tenets of instruction:
- Texts worth reading
- Questions worth answering
- Work worth doing
The presenters discussed these key principles in relation to new extended reading worksheets developed for the highest level of the Ventures series, Transitions, and now available on the Ventures Online Teacher’s Resource Room. (Be sure to refine your search to Level 5: Transitions and Resource Type: Extended Reading Worksheets.)
The new extended reading worksheets provide:
- Complex informational texts that build on unit themes and provide opposing viewpoints to readings in the Transitions Student’s Book.
- Emphasis on academic vocabulary and exercises that develop reading strategies appropriate to the text.
- Text-dependent questions that rely on the language and mechanics of the text itself, rather than personal experience or opinion.
- Practice with useful academic language functions.
- Culminating writing activities that demand evidence to form opinions, compare, problem solve, or persuade.