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This website provides video lessons about the steps to becoming a U.S. citizen, the N-400 interview, the 100 civics questions, the reading/writing section of the test, the interview process, and new citizenship. ELLs can practice vocabulary, listening, and pronunciation in the context of the citizenship test. Students need to register for this website, but it use is free.

This website provides video introductions of new skills and opportunities for students to practice and master those skills. Students can use these lessons before, during, or after classroom instruction. This website allows students to direct their learning and pace as they study Grammar, Math, Social Studies, etc.

This site provides speeches about a variety of topics that are fascinating. It's possible to search by topic, languages, and duration to choose speeches that fit the needs of the ELL classroom. TED Ed also has educational materials and lesson ideas. These videos (or portions of the videos) would be great to use for a Cloze activity.

Students have free access to tutorial videos about arithmetic, fractions, geometry, percents, and algebra. These are skills that adult learners will see on the HiSET and CASAS exams.

This website provides teachers with free access to ESL worksheets, powerpoints, and video lessons. Teachers need to register for an account, but then they have access to many teacher-made resources. The reviews/rankings are also helpful when sorting through materials.

The scientific method is a part of almost every HSED practice test for science. This shows that it is important for students to understand and know how to identify the various steps and how they work together in an experiment. HSED students can watch this video to understand the scientific method, and then they can read the article that is immediately following the video. The video is approximately 12 minutes long.

HSED students can take the HiSET Math FPT 7 (2017) practice test. Then, the HSED teacher or students can check their test answers. This playlist of 25 videos goes through each math problem on the practice test. Students can select the question numbers that they missed and watch Jason Walker (Iowa HSED teacher) solve that problem step-by-step and explain it.

HSED students can take the HiSET Writing FPT 2 practice test. Then, the HSED teacher or students can check their test answers. This playlist of 25 videos goes through each writing grammar problem on the practice test. Students can select the question numbers that they missed and watch Jason Walker (Iowa HSED teacher) use a think-aloud approach to explain how he knew the answer.

HSED students can take the HiSET Reading FPT 7 (2017) practice test. Then, the HSED teacher or students can check their test answers. This playlist of 20 videos goes through each reading problem on the practice test. Students can select the question numbers that they missed and watch Jason Walker (Iowa HSED teacher) use a think-aloud approach to explain how he knew the answer.