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Sep 17, 2024
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READ 095 - Reading and Improvement Credits: 3 Description This class will improve fundamental reading skills, including word-attack skills, vocabulary development, reading comprehension, fluency, and interpretation. Extensive opportunities for applying reading strategies for before, during, and after reading will be provided. Critical analysis skills in relationship to various texts will be introduced to guide students toward college level reading.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Identify and use various reading strategies (before, during, after reading) for pre-college level and college level texts.
- Develop flexibility in reading rates.
- Identify word parts (suffixes, roots, prefixes) and how to use context clues to improve vocabulary.
- Apply dictionary skills to help with vocabulary expansion.
- Identify main ideas (both stated and implied).
- Write about and discuss texts in a variety of manners.
- Interpret author’s purpose and tone.
- Distinguish between facts and opinions in various texts.
Prerequisite: Accuplacer Reading Placement Test Corequisite: None Graded: Letter Grade
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