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GED: Reasoning Through Language Arts - Unit 2: Vocabulary and Word Skills |
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Welcome to Unit 2: Vocabulary and Word Skills. We learned that reading comprehension is more about understanding the big picture than it is about understanding individual words. Even so, there are strategies for decoding individual words when we bump into ones we don't understand. In this unit, we'll identify and explore some of those strategies. |
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GED: Reasoning Through Language Arts - Unit 3: Reading Comprehension Skills |
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Welcome to Unit 3: Reading Comprehension Skills. Now that we've talked about some of the strategies associated with reading comprehension, let's talk about some of the skills you'll need to make sense of the readings you encounter. In this unit, we'll talk about main ideas, details, and inferences. |
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GED: Reasoning Through Language Arts - Unit 4: Patterns of Organization |
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Welcome to Unit 4: Patterns of Organization. Now that we've talked about the difference between an author's main idea and the details the author uses to support it, along with how we can make inferences based on those details, let's talk about how authors organize their writing. We'll start this unit by learning how to differentiate between facts and opinion. Then we'll talk about how writing can be used to show cause and effect, to compare and contrast, and to describe information. |
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GED: Reasoning Through Language Arts - Unit 5: Purpose and Tone |
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Welcome to Unit 5: Purpose and Tone. Now that we've talked about how authors organize their writing, let's talk about purpose and tone. In this unit, we'll explore different kids of writing, and identify ways to determine the effectiveness of an author's argument. |
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GED: Reasoning Through Language Arts - Unit 6: The Writing Process |
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Welcome to Unit 6: The Writing Process. Now that you're familiar with the skills and strategies required for reading comprehension, let's turn to writing. This section of the RLA will ask you to edit sentences and paragraphs to correct errors in grammar, punctuation, and style. In this unit, we'll cover the rules of the road when it comes to grammar and punctuation. |
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GED: Reasoning Through Language Arts - Unit 7: The Extended Response |
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Welcome to Unit 7: The Extended Response. The last part of the RLA section is the Extended Response, or essay. Here's how it works. You'll be given something to read - a source text or texts - and asked to write an essay in response to a prompt related to the reading. In this unit, we'll learn about two types of essays and take a look at an example of each one. |
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GED: Reasoning Through Language Arts - Unit 8: Post-Test |
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Welcome to Unit 8: Post-Test. This post-test covers reading comprehension, writing, and editing. At the end of this post-test is a table that matches each question to the content it covers. Use it to review any content that you haven't mastered. |
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GED: Science - Unit 1: Science Practices |
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Welcome to Unit 1: Science Practices. Science practices describe the ways we collect, process, and analyze information. Each question on the science test will incorporate science practice within the content area being tested. In this unit, we'll explore some of those science practices. We'll define scientific method, describe variables, and learn about sampling techniques. We'll also explore some of the ways scientists represent and analyze the data they collect. |
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GED: Science - Unit 2: Life Science |
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Welcome to Unit 2: Life Science. About 45% of the questions you'll see on the science test relate to Life Science. That's the study of living things. In this unit, we'll cover the building blocks of life, the form and function of living things, the basics of heredity, and the ways living things interact with one another and the environment. |
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GED: Science - Unit 3: Physical Science |
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Welcome to Unit 3: Physical Science. About 35% of the questions you'll see on the science test will cover Physical Science. In this unit, we'll explore some of the basic principles of physics and chemistry. |
