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GED Connection

Wondering how to prepare for the GED Test? PBS LiteracyLink's GED Connection is a stand-alone multimedia learning system that helps adult learners advance toward their GED and improve skills needed at the workplace. Using video programs, print, and online computer technology, learners develop strategies and practice for success on the GED exam and beyond. If you register and create a home space now, you can save your work in your own online portfolio. The LiteracyLink Online Management System allows teachers to coach adult learners as they work online lessons, creating the first adult literacy Distance Learning system. Use GED Connection at home, at work, at the library, or your local adult education center. You can view the lessons on your local public television stations, record these lessons, and use the videotapes to study at home. Many local adult education programs, community colleges, one-stop career centers, or libraries have GED Connection videos and books available, with classes and teachers to help you, too. You can register for a free portfolio and use GED practice tests and quizzes with automatic scoring and feedback, plus extensive learning modules for each of the five GED subject areas. Online teachers from several states are available to coach adult learners in virtual classrooms. You can order GED Connection workbooks to use at home or ask for them at an adult education center or library near you.Visit the website given here for more information.

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UEN-TV
 Wed, Feb 10th, 2010 @ 6:30 pm
Writing: Passing The Ged Writing Test
Advice on how to prepare for the GED writing test, with sample test questions.

Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English

UEN-TV
 Fri, Feb 12th, 2010 @ 6:30 pm
Writing: Getting Ideas On Paper
Successful writers and adult learners share ideas on how to get started writing.

Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English

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 Mon, Feb 15th, 2010 @ 6:30 pm
Writing: The Writing Process
Outlines a three-step process: generating ideas, writing a rough draft, and evising/editing.

Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English

UEN-TV
 Wed, Feb 17th, 2010 @ 6:30 pm
Writing: Organized Writing
Experienced writers offer useful organizing techniques.

Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English

UEN-TV
 Fri, Feb 19th, 2010 @ 6:30 pm
Writing: Style and Word Choice
Purpose and audience affect how authors compose various kinds of written pieces.

Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English

UEN-TV
 Mon, Feb 22nd, 2010 @ 6:30 pm
Writing: Effective Sentences
How to write complete and correct sentences and how to correct and improve problem sentences.

Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English

UEN-TV
 Wed, Feb 24th, 2010 @ 6:30 pm
Writing: Grammar and Usage
Reviews typical grammar and usage problems writers encounter.

Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English

UEN-TV
 Fri, Feb 26th, 2010 @ 6:30 pm
Writing: Spelling, Punctuation and Capitalization
Tips on how to improve your writing mechanics.

Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English

UEN-TV
 Mon, Mar 1st, 2010 @ 6:30 pm
Writing: The Ged Essay
GED graduates describe test day and provide tips on writing the GED essay.

Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English

UEN-TV
 Wed, Mar 3rd, 2010 @ 6:30 pm
Reading: Passing The Ged Reading Test
Reviews the skills required, the subjects covered, and the kinds of questions included on the 2002 GED reading test.

Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English

UEN-TV
 Fri, Mar 5th, 2010 @ 6:30 pm
Reading: Nonfiction
Explores three kinds of nonfiction writing-informational, opinion, and memoir-and illustrates how to get the most out of reading them. Writer Luis Rodriguez reads from Always Running, his memoir about gang life.

Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English

UEN-TV
 Mon, Mar 8th, 2010 @ 6:30 pm
Reading: Fiction
Explores elements of fiction in short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery O'Connor, and James Baldwin and the contemporary novel Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat, who reads an excerpt from the book.

Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English

UEN-TV
 Wed, Mar 10th, 2010 @ 6:30 pm
Reading: Poetry
Poet Sonia Sanchez reads from her work and shows how to analyze a poem, U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky introduces the "Favorite Poem Project," and people talk about how poetry can be a powerful means of expression.

Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English

UEN-TV
 Fri, Mar 12th, 2010 @ 6:30 pm
Reading: Drama
Explores the elements of drama through a play written by an adult learner and goes behind the scenes to see how the written word is translated to the stage.

Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English

UEN-TV
 Mon, Mar 15th, 2010 @ 6:30 pm
Social Studies: Passing The Ged Social Studies Test
Tips on reading and interpreting maps, charts, and graphics; information on the content areas covered on the social studies section of the 2002 GED Test; and sample test questions.

Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English