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The National Adult Literacy Agency provided this article about effective strategies to use when teaching adults basic math skills. This article focuses on the unique needs of adult learners and provides practice tips for HSED math teachers.

This document is a manual about how to teach basic math concepts to adult learners. This document can help HSED math teachers gain insights about best teaching strategies to use during math lessons and how to adjust math instruction to meet the needs of adult students.

The Purdue Writing Lab website provides teachers and students with information about grammar rules and opportunities to practice those skills. Online exercises include these topics: grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, sentence style, and ESL exercises. Answer keys are also available for the exercises.

This video shows students what to expect when they show up for their U.S. citizenship interview and test. The video provides slower speaking and shows an image of the words that are spoken so that ELLs can understand better.

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.

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.

Easy English News is a newspaper for ELL classrooms that focuses on current news but is written with simplified English and contains a glossary of definitions. This newspaper does require purchasing (see details on this site), but teachers can also find free resources on this site to use for extended practice.

This document provides information for teaching students about the Oath of Allegiance. The oath is part 8 of the N-400 form and is part of the naturalization ceremony. This document shows complex vocabulary words from the oath with simplified, ELL-friendly definitions. There is also a simplified version of the oath and an opportunity to check for understanding with the vocabulary terms.

This is a valuable resource for teachers and students who are focusing on the N400 form and the interview part of the citizenship test. This document important vocabulary words from part 12 of the N400 form, and it provides simplified definitions that are ELL-friendly.

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.

This website is helpful for vocabulary practice with ELLs. Teachers can use this site for whole-class vocabulary review, or students can practice independently. Each word set has about 5-10 words and multiple formats to practice listening, pronunciation, spelling, and matching words to the correct pictures.

This website is sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English, and it contains free writing lesson plans and resources. It's possible to search this site by topic, grade level, or type of resources. This website is designed for the K-12 classroom, but it can be adapted to meet the needs of adult learners, too.

This website contains a list of the most highly recommended online resources for teachers who are teaching mathematics to adult learners. Some of the links include ready-to-use worksheets and math-related apps for iPads or computers.

The National Adult Literacy Agency in Ireland compiled this list of adult literacy worksheets. The reading worksheets include practice and reinforcement activities related to phonics, prefixes, suffixes, abbreviations, the 100 most common words, etc.

This website provides leveled readers (Levels A-G) that teachers and students can access for free. It's possible to print these out to create a classroom library, to use them for small group reading instruction, or to provide extension activities for independent reading. It's also possible to read these books digitally on the computer and to listen to the audio recording that accompanies each book. The topics work well for adult learners because they are about real-life experiences and daily life.

This document provides an overview of the 2019 HSET exam. The ETS company explains each of the five tests: Reading, Writing, Math, Science, and Social Studies. This document is essential for HSED teachers and students so they understand the duration of each test, the number of questions, the format, and a breakdown of the content that is included on each test.

This is a great resource for higher level ELL classes. The articles are written at about a 5th grade reading level but are also appropriate for adult learners. There are new non-fiction articles that are available for free each week, and there is an archive full of hundreds of articles. These articles lend themselves well to reading lessons that include vocabulary, comprehension, pronunciation, and class discussions.

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.