Learning to Learn
7.1     Identify or practice effective organizational and time management skills in accomplishing goals
7.1.1  Identify and prioritize personal, educational, and workplace goals
         
California Literacy's PEACE Curriculum
          Unit 9:  "Parenting"
         
ESL/CBET & Citizenship Technology Guide
          go to page 128 - "About Me" (Intermediate Low ESL)
         
The House I Live In - Craven Community College, North Carolina
          Click on Lesson 7 - "Renting Versus Owning"
7.1.2  Demonstrate an organized approach to achieving goals, including identifying and prioritizing tasks and setting and following an effective schedule
         
Beyond Citizenship: True Stories for Civics Class (Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning)
          Story #6 - Azima Goes Back to School
          Story #7 - Zoren Builds Again
         
The House I Live In - Craven Community College, North Carolina
          Click on Lesson 7 - "Renting Versus Owning"

7.2     Demonstrate ability to use thinking skills
7.2.1  Identify and paraphrase pertinent information
         
GCFLearnFree.org
          click on "Grill Safety", "Fire Plan"
         
Tools For Lesson Planning - LA Unified School District
          Go to page 162 - "What's In the News?" (Advanced Low ESL)
7.2.2  Analyze a situation, statement, or process, identifying component elements and causal and part/who relationships
         
Colorado Department of Education - Intergenerational Literacy Activity
          Transportation Visual Discrimination - page 19
         
ESL/CBET & Citizenship Technology Guide
          go to page 140  "Hollywood Citizen" (Intermediate Low ESL)
         
Miracosta College ESL Lesson Plans
          EL Civics Reporting Crimes and Accidents Unit (Intermediate Level)
         
Miracosta College ESL Lesson Plans
          EL Civics Reporting Crime Unit (Advanced Level)
         
The House I Live In - Craven Community College, North Carolina
          Click on Lesson 9 - "How to Buy a Home - Part 2"
         
The House I Live In - Craven Community College, North Carolina
          Click on Lesson 10 - "Participating in Your New Community"
         
Tools For Lesson Planning - LA Unified School District
          Go to page 102 - "First, Insert the Originals. . ." (Intermediate Low ESL)
7.2.3  Make comparisons, differentiating among, sorting, and classifying items, information, or ideas
         
The House I Live In - Craven Community College, North Carolina
          Click on Lesson 5 - "Determining Where to Live"
7.2.4  Identify or make inferences through inductive and deductive reasoning to hypothesize, predict, conclude, and synthesize; distinguish fact from opinion and determine what is mandatory and what is discretionary
         
CLESE - Bright Ideas Curriculum
          click on "News"
         
Tools For Lesson Planning - LA Unified School District
          Go to page 106 - "Computer Friendly" (Intermediate Low ESL)
7.2.5  Evaluate a situation, statement or process, assembling information and providing evidence, making judgments, etc.

7.2.6  Generate ideas using divergent (brainstorming) and convergent (focus) approaches, and also through creative imagination
         
Talking Points Worksheets - "Charity" (Student Handout)
               "Charity"  -
Teaching Suggestions
               TP Homework -
"Charity"
         
Talking Points Worksheets - "The Secrets of Success" (Student Handout)
               "The Secrets of Success" -
Teaching Suggestions
               TP Homework -
"Secrets of Success"
         
Tools For Lesson Planning - LA Unified School District
          Go to page 154 - "Earthquake!" (Advanced Low ESL)
7.2.7  Identify factors involved in making decisions, including considering goals, constraints, and consequences, and weighting alternatives
         
The House I Live In - Craven Community College, North Carolina
          Click on Lesson 8 - "How to Buy a Home - Part 1"
         
The House I Live In - Craven Community College, North Carolina
          Click on Lesson 7 - "Renting Versus Owning"

7.3     Demonstrate ability to use problem-solving skills
7.3.1  Identify a problem and its possible causes
         
Tools For Lesson Planning - LA Unified School District
          Go to page 118 - "Move It or Lose It" (Intermediate High ESL)
         
Tools For Lesson Planning - LA Unified School District
          Go to page 122 - "Right Makes Might" (intermediate High ESL)
7.3.2  Devise and implement a solution to an identified problem
         
Tools For Lesson Planning - LA Unified School District
          Go to page 118 - "Move It or Lose It" (Intermediate High ESL)
7.3.4  Utilize problem-solving strategies, such as breaking down the problem into component parts and generating alternative or creative solutions
         
Literacy Volunteers of Roanoke Valley, Virginia
          "Talking About Telephones"

7.4     Demonstrate study skills
7.4.1  Identify or utilize effective study strategies
         
Colorado Department of Education - Intergenerational Literacy Project
          Transportation Repetition - page 1
         
Tools For Lesson Planning - LA Unified School District
          Go to page 46 - "Test 1, 2, 3. . ." (Beginning Low ESL)
7.4.2  Take notes or write a summary or an outline

7.4.3  Identify, utilize, or create devices or processes for remembering information
         
Family Literacy Lesson Plans
          click on Lesson 1 "Parents as First Teachers-The Gingerbread Man"
7.4.5  Use reference materials, such as dictionaries and encyclopedias
         
The House I Live In - Craven Community College, North Carolina
          Click on Lesson 1 - "My American Dream"
7.4.6  Use indexes and tables of contents
         
Reading For Life
          "Table of Contents"
7.4.8  Interpret visual representations, such as symbols, blueprints, flowcharts, and schematics
7.4.9  Identify personal learning styles

         
Talking Points Worksheets - "How Do You Learn the Best?" (Student Handout)
               "How Do You Learn the Best?" -
Teaching Suggestions
               TP Homework -
"How Do You Learn the Best?"

7.5     Understand aspects of and approaches to effective personal management
7.5.1  Identify personal values, qualities, interests, abilities and aptitudes
         
The House I Live In - Craven Community College, North Carolina
          Click on Lesson 1 - "My American Dream"
7.5.4  Understand aspects of and approaches to effective personal management
         
Talking Points Worksheets - "Stress" (Student Handout)
               "Stress"  -
Teaching Suggestions
               TP Homework -
"Stress"
7.5.6  Identify or use strategies or communication more successfully


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