ABE Progress Report & Skill Level Descriptors Student:

READING LEVEL

MATH LEVEL 255

High Adult Secondary Education Reading/Writing Skills: With some assistance, persons at this level are able to interpret technical information, more complex manuals, and material safety data sheets (MSDS). Can comprehend some college textbooks and apprenticeship manuals.

ABE 6

ABE 6

High Adult Secondary Education Math Skills:

245

Low Adult Secondary Education Reading/Writing Skills: Can read and follow multi-step directions and read and interpret common legal forms and manuals. Can integrate information from multiple texts, charts, and graphs as well as evaluate and organize information. Can perform tasks that involve oral and written instructions in both familiar and unfamiliar situations.

Low Adult Secondary Education

ABE 5

ABE 5

Math Skills: Can use math in business, such as calculating discounts; create and use tables and graphs; communicate personal opinion in written form; write an accident or incident report

235

High Intermediate Basic Education Reading/Writing Skills: Can handle most routine reading, writing, and computational tasks related to their life roles. Can interpret routine charts, graphs, and labels; read and interpret a simple handbook for employees; interpret a payroll stub; complete an order form and fill out medical information forms and job applications. Can follow multi-step diagrams and written instructions and write a simple accident or incident report. Can handle jobs and job training situations that involve following oral and simple written instructions and diagrams. Students at the upper end of this score range are able to begin GED prep or high school diploma program.

High Intermediate Basic Education

ABE 4

Math Skills: Can do calculations, compute tips; reconcile a bank statement and maintain a family budget. Students at the upper end of this score range are able to begin GED prep or high school diploma program.

220

Low Intermediate Basic Education Reading/Writing Skills: Can handle basic reading, writing, and computational tasks related to life roles. Can read and interpret simplified and some authentic materials on familiar topics. Can interpret simple charts, graphs, and labels; interpret a basic payroll stub; follow basic written instructions and diagrams. Can complete a simple order form; fill out basic medical information forms and basic job applications; follow basic oral and written instructions and diagrams. Can handle jobs and/or job training that involve following basic oral or written instructions and diagrams if they can be clarified orally.

ABE 4

ABE 3

ABE 3

Low Intermediate Basic Education Math Skills: Can do basic math calculations.

210

Beginning Basic Education Reading/Writing Skills: Can fill out simple forms requiring basic personal information and write a simple list or telephone message. Can read and interpret simple sentences on familiar topics. Can read and interpret simple directions, signs, maps, and simple menus. Can handle entry level jobs that involve some simple written communication.

Beginning Basic Education

ABE 2

ABE 2

Math Skills: Can calculate a single simple operation when numbers are given and make simple change.

200

Beginning ABE Literacy Reading/Writing Skills: Very limited ability to read or write. Persons at the upper end of this score range can read and write numbers and letters and simple words and phrases related to immediate needs. Can provide very basic personal identification in written form such as on job applications. Can handle routine entry level jobs that require only basic written communication.

ABE 1

ABE 1

150

Beginning ABE Literacy Math Skills: Can read and write numbers.

Adults performing at ABE Level 1 can…

Adults performing at ABE Level 2 can…

Adults performing at ABE Level 3 can…

Adults performing at ABE Level 4 can…

Adults performing at ABE Level 5 can…

Adults performing at ABE Level 6 can…

Math: Select and apply the knowledge, skills, and strategies at this level to independently, with some effort but few errors, accomplish simple, well-defined, and highly structured math tasks in one or more comfortable and familiar settings.

Math: Easily select and apply the knowledge, skills, and strategies at this level to independently accomplish simple, welldefined, and highly structured math tasks in one or more comfortable and familiar settings.

Math: Easily select and apply the knowledge, skills, and strategies at this level to independently accomplish simple, welldefined, and structured math tasks in a range of comfortable and familiar, or highly structured, settings.

Math: Select and apply the knowledge, skills, and strategies at this level to independently accomplish well-defined and structured math tasks in a range of comfortable and familiar settings.

Math: Easily select and apply the knowledge, skills, and strategies at this level to independently accomplish structured math tasks in a variety of comfortable and familiar settings.

Math: Easily select and apply the knowledge, skills, and strategies at this level to independently accomplish minimally structured, complex math tasks in a variety of comfortable and familiar settings.

Read and comprehend words in small blocks of simple text, slowly but easily and with few errors, to independently accomplish simple, well-defined and structured reading activities in a range of comfortable and familiar settings.

Read and comprehend words in a page or two of simple text, slowly but easily and with few errors, to independently accomplish simple, well-defined and structured reading activities in a range of comfortable and familiar settings.

Quickly and accurately read and comprehend words and word groups in multiple pages of simple text to independently accomplish simple, well-defined and structured reading activities in a range of comfortable and familiar settings.

Read and comprehend a variety of texts at an appropriate pace and with good comprehension to independently accomplish structured reading activities in a variety of familiar and some novel settings.

Read and comprehend dense or multipart texts at an appropriate pace and with good comprehension to independently accomplish structured, complex reading activities in a variety of familiar and some novel settings.

Read and comprehend long, complex texts at an appropriate pace and with good comprehension to independently accomplish structured or unstructured complex reading activities in a variety of familiar and novel settings.

Write individual words, simple phrases and a few very simple sentences slowly and with some effort and some errors. They can independently accomplish simple, well defined, and highly structured writing activities in a few comfortable and familiar settings.

Write simple and a few compound sentences, sometimes in short paragraphs with some effort but with few errors to independently accomplish simple, well defined, and structured writing activities in a few comfortable and familiar settings.

Write simple narrative, informative, or expressive texts of a paragraph and steps/ instructions/commands with some effort but with few errors. They can independently accomplish well-defined and structured writing activities for varied audiences (self, family, workplace, teacher) in a range of comfortable and familiar settings.

Write coherent steps or a few well-constructed paragraphs easily and with few errors to independently accomplish well defined and structured writing activities for varied purposes (such as for personal expression, to inform, to persuade or to complete a task) and audiences in a range of comfortable and familiar settings.

write a variety of texts that include more complex sentence structures and multiple paragraphs easily and with few errors for a wide variety of purposes (such as different kinds of expressive, persuasive and informative purposes). They can independently accomplish structured and fairly complex writing in a variety of familiar and some novel settings.

Write a variety of sentences in medium-length, detailed text and in a variety of rhetorical forms, easily and with few errors, to independently accomplish structured or unstructured complex writing activities in a variety of familiar and novel settings.

Employability: Can handle routine entry level jobs that require only basic written communication.

Employability: Can handle entry level jobs that involve some simple written communication.

Employability: Can handle jobs and/or job training that involve following basic oral or written instructions and diagrams if they can be clarified orally.

Employability: Can handle jobs and job training situations that involve following oral and simple written instructions and diagrams.

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