Course Description
This one-semester 3-credit elective courses provide a foundation in reading comprehension, critical reading, and vocabulary development. Students will learn to locate main ideas and supporting details; make inferences, and understand common idioms and expressions. In addition, students will learn strategies which will help them to read faster and more effectively. Course activities include reading and vocabulary assignments, discussions, and presentations.
Intended Learning Outcomes
CILO-1: Skim a text for general meaning by a. Recognizing topic sentences; b. Distinguishing between the main idea and supporting details.
CILO-2: Scan a text for specific information and answer specific information questions within a limited amount of time (speed reading skills).
CILO-3: Make inferences through the use of pictures and texts.
CILO-4: Guess meanings of vocabulary from context by recognizing contextual clues (punctuation, definitions, examples, pronouns and synonyms/antonyms).
CILO-5: Improve confidence and fluency in reading by actively articipating in a. choral reading; b. theatre reading.
CILO-6: Read critically by keeping a journal of interesting texts and articles and responding to them in a thoughtful way.
CILO-7: Improve ability to summarize information in a text.