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GED

ACADEMY TM

GED? Test

Curriculum Blueprint

An Educator's Guide to Being GED? Test-Ready

TERESA PERRIN

Table of Contents

Section 1: About the GED? Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Big Picture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Your Curriculum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Aligned with Common Core State Standards (CCSS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Instead of Bloom's Taxonomy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Computer-Based Testing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 A Moving Target for Passing the GED Test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 GED Mathematical Reasoning Test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 In a Nutshell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 New Content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 More Clarity with Skill Articulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Mathematical Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Math Item Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 GED Reasoning Through Language Arts (RLA) Test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 In a Nutshell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 One Test, Not Two. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Concentration on Informational Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Two Overarching Reading Standards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Additional Reasoning Skills to Be Tested. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 The Essay, or Extended Response. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Computer Scoring for Extended Response Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Computer-Based Testing Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Language Content Domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 RLA Item Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 GED Science Test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 In a Nutshell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Science Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Science Content and Focusing Themes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Science Item Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 GED Social Studies Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 In a Nutshell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Social Studies Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Social Studies Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 New Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Focusing Themes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Social Studies Item Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Item Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Scoring on the GED Test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Section 2: Curriculum & Lesson Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Lesson Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Lesson Plan Builder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Sample Lesson Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Lesson Plan Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Computer Essentials Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 GED Academy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Additional Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Section 3: GED? Test Targets, Standards, and Alignments. . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Mathematical Reasoning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Reasoning Through Language Arts--Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90 Reasoning Through Language Arts--Writing and Language. . . . . . . . . 96 Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Social Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Section 1

About the

GED? Test

And How It Affects Your Classroom

Section 1: About the GED? Test

The Big Picture

The updated GED test requirements represent a huge step toward improving the literacy of high school non-completers. It pushes, or perhaps pulls, adult education to a higher level of education competency. The question, though, is how do we get there? Simply raising the bar for obtaining a high school equivalency diploma does not magically transform the way we teach. In the end, it comes down to what happens in the classroom. The most rigorous assessments mean nothing if the test-taker is not prepared.

Adjusting Your Curriculum

A question teachers often ask is whether there are some magic bullets: one or two overarching instructional themes that they can overlay on their current curriculum to ensure their students are getting what they need to not only pass the GED or other HSE tests, but to prepare them for the workforce and higher education. It is clear from the GED Assessment Guide as well the Common Core State Standards that the fundamental focus is on a thinking curriculum, teaching adults how to reason in the context of real-life reading texts, science concepts, social science, and writing. The second essential take-away is the critical importance of digital literacy. Without basic computer navigation skills and the ability to complete the question types for the computer-based test, test-takers will not pass.

The key question, then, is how to apply these overarching directions to the Adult Basic Education (ABE) and GED test preparation curriculum. That is the purpose of this booklet. It is divided into three sections. First, there is an overview of the most important aspects of the GED test and how they affect the adult education instructor, including a discussion of each subject or test area. The second section includes resources that will be valuable for the GED test instructor. Section three is a detailed blueprint of exactly how the ABE and GED test preparation curriculum needs to be structured to meet the CCSS and GED Assessment Targets. This curriculum blueprint will also align the CCSS and GED test prep curriculum with the GED Academy computer-based learning program.



The fundamental focus is on a

thinking curriculum.

The second essential

take-away is the critical importance of

digital literacy.

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