1. Wendy Tyler Sally McIntosh
Mississippi
High School
GED Option
GED CLASSROOM TIPS
Wendy Tyler
Sally McIntosh

2. Using TABE results to assign mastery levels
MS HIGH SCHOOL GED OPTION
Using TABE results to assign mastery levels
Use TABE Objective Mastery sheets to determine the skill remediation needs from a TABE test.

3. Reading Skills and the GED Tests
MS HIGH SCHOOL GED OPTION
Reading Skills and the GED Tests
Reading is the key to passing all 5 GED Tests.
Address all four components of reading in GED lessons: Comprehension, Vocabulary, Alphabetics and Fluency.
Comprehension: clarifying meaning, asking questions, making connections, rereading or reading more slowly
Handout: Critical Thinking Skills on the GD Tests

4. MS HIGH SCHOOL GED OPTION
Ragged Old Flag – Sequence, paragraph main idea, selection main idea, context clues
"You see, we got a little hole in that flag there, When Washington took it across the Delaware.
I walked through a county courthouse square, On a park bench, an old man was sittin' there. I said, "Your old court house is kinda run down.”
"On Flanders Field in World War I, She got a big hole from a Bertha Gun.
Handout: Ragged Old Flag
And we bring her down slow every night, We don't let her touch the ground, And we fold her up right.

5. MS HIGH SCHOOL GED OPTION
Vocabulary: using academic vocabulary in context sentences, synonyms, antonyms, multiple-meaning words, context clues
A heteronym is a word that has a different sound and different meanings, but the same spelling. All of the heteronyms on the list contain more than one syllable.
In column 1, write each heteronym with the accent indicating the meaning that you have chosen.
In Column 2 write a phrase containing the word you have chosen.
Handout: Heteronyms

6. MS HIGH SCHOOL GED OPTION
Alphabetics: phonics, word analysis (syllable division / patterns, prefixes, suffixes, base words, roots) Prefixes never change spelling- they are just added to whole words (un + happy= unhappy Single consonants that usually stand for specific single sounds: b, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w, y, z Other rules you’ve heard: “When two vowels go walking, the first does the talking.”

7. MS HIGH SCHOOL GED OPTION
Fluency: echo reading, repeated reading, marking phrase boundaries, recorded readings
As you listen to “Ocean Born Mary,” predict why residents of Henniker differ on the value of Mary’s house.
In the town of Henniker, New Hampshire, stands a grand old house with a fascinating legend attached to it- a legend that some people would like to erase and others insist on preserving. For generations, stories have circulated of eerie happenings in and around the house.
Handout: Ocean Born Mary

8. Subject: Can you read this?
MS HIGH SCHOOL GED OPTION
FW: can oyu reda thsi
Subject: Can you read this?
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Speed and accuracy are key elements in any testing situation. You are able to read the above selection and garner its meaning, although there are jumbled words. Use the same skill to understand paragraphs within a reading selection.

9. MS HIGH SCHOOL GED OPTION
Try these on for size: Small group work: distribute copies of the Bill of Rights and newspapers, asking learners to find articles that address the rights established under the Constitution- discuss articles and how the Constitution applies in these situations Use the “Bingo” method to practice locating information on a table (columns- BINGO, rows-1,2,etc) Large group work: provide several different advertisements for the same type of product. Ask learners to develop their own set of criteria for evaluating the advertisements. Record the criteria on the board then compare the claims in each advertisement against the set of criteria they developed. This demonstrates evaluating information Read aloud with learners following from a printed text selection (demonstrates phrasing) Use “round robin” reading allowing learners the choice of just listening or reading. Play recorded texts using cd, tape or mp3 formats, again with the printed text selection. Set the stage with a skill to practice while listening to the reading.
Handout: 4 components of Reading

10. Math Skills for the GED Tests
MS HIGH SCHOOL GED OPTION
Math Skills for the GED Tests
Computation is a tool for problem solving, not an end in itself.
Connect other subjects and the real world through math.
Handout: Computation is a Tool

11. Mental Math- no paper, pencil or calculator activities
MS HIGH SCHOOL GED OPTION
Mental Math- no paper, pencil or calculator activities
Puzzles, matching games:
I have, who has (small slips of paper with a math problem, additional slips with the answers distributed to students- one states “I have ****, who has the answer?”
Number search
Guess my rule
Making change at the store
Mental shopping list total
Food labels: “How many calories if you have 2 servings?”
Handout: Mental Math

12. Writing for the Essay Test
MS HIGH SCHOOL GED OPTION
Writing for the Essay Test
Brainstorming techniques
Organizational types (based on subject matter and audience)
Detail, details, details
Proofreading (editing for publication)
Handout: Writing an Essay on a Given Topic

13. MS HIGH SCHOOL GED OPTION
ROADMAP TO GED 2014
Q.1 Order and compute with rational numbers; simplify numerical expressions
CCSS NUMBER 4.NF.2
Number and Operations—Fractions 4.NF
Extend understanding of fraction equivalence and ordering.
2. Compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators, e.g., by creating common denominators or numerators, or by comparing to a benchmark fraction such as 1/2. Recognize that
comparisons are valid only when the two fractions refer to the same whole. Record the results of comparisons with symbols >, =, or <, and justify the conclusions, e.g., by using a visual fraction model
Handout: Contemporary_Roadmap_GED_080312