ENGL C020 Literacy Skills
CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to help students improve their
reading and writing skills, learn sentence structures, gain an
understanding of basic principles of grammar and spelling,
develop their vocabulary, and learn ways to express ideas in
short writings.
REQUISITES
None
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will
be able to:
- understand basic parts of speech: noun, pronoun, verb,
adjective, etc.
- know simple spelling rules and usage conventions, such
as capitalization, proper use of the period and apostrophe,
how to double-space, etc.
- know sentence structures, including simple, compound,
and complex sentences.
- understand basic principles of grammar.
- expand their vocabulary.
- have basic reading skills at the sentence level:
phonics, word-recognition, and rudimentary comprehension.
- develop word attack strategies.
- improve their reading comprehension.
- learn suitable reading strategies for various kinds of
reading materials.
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