Literacy Resources for Adult ESOL and ABE Educators: ABE Books

Voyager: Reading and Writing for Today's Adults provides a solid foundation of balanced instruction to ensure success. Phonics and word recognition strategies develop vocabulary. Learning goals empower students. Pre-reading and active reading strategies engage students. Writing process instruction builds on students' experiences. Reading, writing, and critical thinking skills are integrated into every lesson.

The Laubach method was developed specifically to help adults with limited or no reading skills achieve success and become confident readers. This structured, phonics-based series works even with learners who have had negative experiences with other reading programs. The series includes student books, workbooks, and teacher's manuals for all four levels.

Challenger's eight levels guide adult learners from beginning reading through to preparing for the GED. Challenger uses phonics, controlled vocabulary, and sequential skill development. Skills and concepts are presented in the context of diverse fiction and nonfiction passages relevant to adults.

A low beginning book in the two-level reading series designed for multilevel English classes. Every lesson takes learners through listening, speaking, writing, vocabulary, prediction and reading comprehension exercises. Students acquire new vocabulary with both phonics and sight word practice.

SAM AND PAT is a phonics-based series that uses a clear and interesting character-based storyline to teach reading and writing skills at the challenging low-beginning level.

Literacy in Lifeskills is designed for adult learners who have not acquired basic literacy skills in their primary language.

The Great Writing series uses clear explanations and extensive practical activities to help students write great sentences, paragraphs, and essays. Each book contains a wide variety of writing models in carefully selected rhetorical styles that provide practice in working with the writing process to develop a final piece of writing

Language Builder is a four-level series organized to the levels of TABE 7 & 8. Each book covers grammar and usage, sentence formation, paragraph development, capitalization, punctuation, and writing conventions governing such special forms as letters and quotations.