ESL 132 - Reading III

1. Apply reading strategies (i.e. skimming, scanning, finding main ideas, drawing conclusions, paraphrasing, summarizing and using context clues) at an intermediate – high level.
2. Identify the setting, main ideas, details, themes, and facts and opinions from stories in intermediate – mid level ESL textbooks and discuss the relationships between the text and real-life experiences as it relates to the student and others.
3. Infer context based on lexical items and prior knowledge and construct sentences and questions using the vocabulary words in an academic context.
4. Compose summaries of intermediate – high level ESL texts with accurately paraphrased main ideas and major details and without plagiarizing.