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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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Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
Fri, Nov 27th, 2009 @ 10:32 pm
Purpose and audience affect how authors compose various kinds of written pieces.
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.
English
Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 @ 10:30 pm
Successful writers and adult learners share ideas on how to get started writing.
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.
English
Mon, Nov 23rd, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
Mon, Nov 30th, 2009 @ 10:30 pm
How to write complete and correct sentences and how to correct and improve problem sentences.
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.
English
Mon, Nov 23rd, 2009 @ 10:30 pm
Outlines a three-step process: generating ideas, writing a rough draft, and evising/editing.
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.
English
Wed, Nov 25th, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
Wed, Dec 2nd, 2009 @ 10:30 pm
Reviews typical grammar and usage problems writers encounter.
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.
English
Wed, Nov 25th, 2009 @ 10:30 pm
Experienced writers offer useful organizing techniques.
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.
English
Fri, Nov 27th, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
Fri, Dec 4th, 2009 @ 10:30 pm
Tips on how to improve your writing mechanics.
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.
English
Mon, Nov 30th, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
Mon, Dec 7th, 2009 @ 10:30 pm
GED graduates describe test day and provide tips on writing the GED essay.
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.
English
Wed, Dec 2nd, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
Wed, Dec 9th, 2009 @ 10:30 pm
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
Fri, Dec 4th, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
Fri, Dec 11th, 2009 @ 10:30 pm
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
Mon, Dec 7th, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
Mon, Dec 14th, 2009 @ 10:30 pm
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
Wed, Dec 9th, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
Wed, Dec 16th, 2009 @ 10:30 pm
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
Fri, Dec 11th, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
Fri, Dec 18th, 2009 @ 10:32 pm
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
Mon, Dec 14th, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
Mon, Dec 21st, 2009 @ 10:30 pm
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
Wed, Dec 16th, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
Wed, Dec 23rd, 2009 @ 10:30 pm
Explores key events and themes-such as the nation's multicultural nature-that have made the United States what it is today.
Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.
English