Favorite tools for GED RLA extended response

Hello colleagues, I'm looking for useful tools to support learners to be successful on the GED Reasonging Through Language Arts extended response in writing. Do you have sample essays or graphic organizers that are available online that you can share with us here on LINCS? What other resources have you found useful?

Many thanks!

Cheers, Susan Finn Miller

Moderator, Teaching & Learning CoP

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Hi Susan. I don't know if this helps, but I made this little Wakelet of Edpuzzle video lessons resource last week for an upcoming lesson. I also made the attached Hyperdoc that I am still making a few changes to, but you are welcome to use any of it that might helpful.

Wakelet Edpuzzle lessons: https://wke.lt/w/s/TaQkTY

Hyperdoc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fuLtOcOThp4pPUyu7wJOcEk8ECtsfIoILMTf4oj-8XY/edit?usp=sharing

GED has had a lot of great resources. With their recent webpage reorganization, some of these aren't posted anymore. However, I'll list some of those that still are available and are useful.

https://ged.com/wp-content/uploads/TfT-What-Students-Need-to-Know-GED-RLA-Extended-Response-Workbook-1.pdf This has most of the best from GED, including a useful graphic organizer and a sample of a perfect scored response.

https://ged.com/about_test/test_subjects/language_arts/extended_response/ This set of videos goes through the process of doing the extended response. I have found them useful as an introduction, but my students haven't learned as much from them as I had hoped.

https://ged.com/educators_admins/teaching/professional_development/webinars/ This is the list of Tuesdays for Teachers resources on the GED website. Several of these discuss the extended response and how to teach it. (It's All About the Claim, Graphic Organizers, Determining What Comes Next all are directly or partially about the extended response.)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ4lvP90ndyXDxVHLZ4hxacF0wIF-C2mc This is the list of all the Tuesdays for Teachers webinars from GED. The majority of them include the workbooks or handouts in the description of the video.

I also use the New Readers Press set of books, Writing for the GED Test (https://www.newreaderspress.com/writing-for-the-ged-test). I have found these to be the most useful of any commercially available books.

 

Michelle Candy

Instructor, Missouri River Correctional Center

Bismarck, ND

This resource is the one I've found the most helpful in getting learners to understand what the test actually is and what will actually get you points: https://ged.com/wp-content/uploads/extended_response_resource_guide_taxation_revenue.pdf 

It contains stimuli passages and then several different graded responses.  You can have the learners read the stimuli and a few essays and grade them and then compare their scores to the given scores.  They end up with a solid feel for what the test is actually valuing which sets a good foundation for later work on thesis, argumentation, evidence, etc.  

 

Edit: I forgot to mention the big downside.  It's formatted in a classroom unfriendly way, so you'll probably need to pull the stimuli and essays out of the document for your students.