REEP ESL Curriculum for Adults - Arlington Education and Employment Program (REEP)

The REEP Adult ESL Curriculum is a comprehensive system that provides instructional direction for programs and teachers of adult immigrants and refugees. First published in 1982, this student-centered, life skills focused curriculum is continuously updated to reflect advances in the fields of adult education, instructed second language acquisition and literacy, and to meet the changing needs of our students. Needs assessment and goal setting activities are at the heart of the curriculum and enable students to actively direct their learning. Students vote on life skills topics such as health, employment, community, government, and transportation to determine the context through which they will develop speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. Digital literacy skills development weaves through all levels and topics of the curriculum.

KEY: Curriculum documents contain references within the text to other curriculum files. They are noted with a file icon and a bolded title, such as Needs Assessment Tools Chart. You can find the referenced files on this homepage.

Instructional Planning

Curriculum Organization: Overview
Needs Assessment: Overview | Tools Chart | Examples: Mind Mapping | Questionnaire | Picture Questionnaire | Information Grids | Timelines | Compositions | Achievement Charts | Individual Education Plans | Four Corners
Course Planning: Overview
Unit Planning: Overview | Unit Needs Assessment Tools for Intermediate-Advanced Levels | Unit Needs Assessment Tools for Low Beginning Levels | Grid | Calendar
Lesson Planning: Overview | REEP lesson plan form guide
General Level Descriptions: 100 | 150 | 200 | 250 | 300 | 350 | 400 | 450 | 500 | 550 | Exit
Individual Goal Setting: Overview
Grammar Development: Overview | Verb Tenses | Sentence Structures
Teacher Reference Texts | Student Texts | REEP Grammar Activity Favorites
Reading Development: Overview | Chart | Alphabetics 1 | Alphabetics 2
Writing Development – under revision
Digital Literacy: Overview | Skills Chart |
Disability Accommodations Guide

Assessment

General Level Descriptions: 100 | 150 | 200 | 250 | 300 | 350 | 400 | 450 | 500 | 550 | Exit
Assessing life skill objectives | Evaluation Tools Chart | Progress Through the Curriculum | Life skill objectives – all| Life skill objectives by level: 100 | 150 | 200 | 250 | 300 | 350 | 450
Culminating Assessment Overview & Sample Activities | Template | Activity Assessment Form | Assessment Sheet | Student Self-Reflection
Final Assessment
Reporting Progress

Units & Objectives

Getting Started* (req’d): 100 | 150 | 200 | 250 | 300 | 350 | 450
Final Reflections (req’d): 100/150 | 200/250 | 300/350/450
Community: 100/150 | 200/250 | 300/350/450
Consumerism*: 100 | 150 | 200/250 | 300 | 350 | 450
Health*: 100 | 150 | 200 | 250 | 300 | 350 | 450
U.S. History: 300/350/450
U.S. Government: 300/350/450
Housing: 100/150 | 200/250
Legal: 300/350/450 (Resources)
Time & Weather: 100/150
Transportation: 100/150 | 200/250
Work*: 100 | 150 | 200 | 250 | 300 | 350 | 450

*Revised for English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) and Digital Literacy Integration.

Lesson Plans & Activities

Lesson Plans & Activities

Additional Resources

References

Acknowledgements

This curriculum originated as The REEP Curriculum, in print, in 1982. The curriculum was revised in 1994 through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education. Through support of an English Language Civics grant from the U.S. Department of Education through the Commonwealth of Virginia, the 1994 curriculum was revised and made available online in 2003. Since 2003, the curriculum has grown and developed. In 2015-16, the Curriculum was reformatted and consolidated to be more accessible on any device type. Objectives and resources are continually updated and new lesson plans are added every year.
REEP thanks the teachers and staff who have played a role in the development of this curriculum.

Terms of Use REEP makes its Adult ESL Curriculum and accompanying resources available online so that its teachers and staff can have ready, easy access as they plan and execute their instruction. We do not maintain paper copies of the curriculum, as we continuously update the material. Other programs are welcome to use these online resources with the understanding that REEP will be credited appropriately. Written credit should appear as follows: Product of the Arlington Education and Employment Program (REEP), Arlington Public Schools, Arlington, Virginia