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Academic C

Reading

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Course Overview

Level
Academic C
Course Code
R
Status
Active

Course Description

This course helps students improve their reading ability by focusing on the following: thorough comprehension of academic texts, implementation of reading strategies, acquiring academic vocabulary, extensive reading, and fluency. The texts used in this course tend to be non-fiction and academic in nature.

Course Emphasis

  • Reading - 75%
    • Skills, strategies, & comprehension - 50%
    • Fluency building - 10% 
    • Vocabulary - 10%
    • Oral fluency & pronunciation - 5%
  • Listening & speaking - 15%
  • Writing - 5%
  • Grammar - 5%

Course Books and Materials

  • Ten Steps to Building College Reading, 6th Edition (Townsend) 9781591944645

Course Learning Outcomes

  1. Understand level-appropriate* texts.
    • Understand explicit main ideas.
    • Understand implicit main ideas.
    • Understand explicit major details.
    • Understand implicit major details.
    • Understand salient minor details.
    • Identify author’s purpose.
    • Identify author’s point of view.
    • Begin to make connections among texts.
    • Maintain sufficient reading rate for comprehension.
  2. Effectively implement appropriate reading strategies.
    • Preview texts for main idea.
    • Scan texts for major and minor details.
    • Recognize common organization patterns that may include atypical conventions.
    • Connect content to background knowledge.
    • Make inferences about concrete and some abstract ideas.
    • Skim texts when appropriate.
    • Improve reading rate.
  3. Acquires new vocabulary words.
    • Understands high-frequency academic vocabulary.
    • Uses context and background knowledge to infer meaning of unfamiliar words.
    • Uses grammar strategies (syntactic, part of speech, and morphological cues) to infer meaning of unfamiliar words.
    • Understands the meaning and use of discourse markers
  4. Reads level-appropriate text* aloud comprehensibly.
    • Pauses appropriately for thought groups (phrases, clauses, sentences), and passage transitions (titles, headings, paragraphs).
    • Uses correct intonation at discourse markers and all sentence boundaries (.?!).
    • Uses phonetic principles to correctly pronounce high-frequency general and academic vocabulary across word forms.
    • Maintains sufficient reading rate for comprehension.

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