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Cliff Davis
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READ C005 Reading Skills

CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course helps improve students’ fundamental reading skills. Students learn auditory/phonemic awareness skills and gain the ability to think about and manipulate sounds important for success in reading and spelling.  The course content is appropriate for students who have difficulty completing the college’s reading and spelling classes and for students who are non-native speakers.

REQUISITES

none

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to

1. Demonstrate auditory awareness by                                 
   1. Identifying orally presented sounds within words;                                
   2. Naming the number of sounds in a word when presented orally;                                
   3. Reproducing the sequence of sounds when presented orally; and                                
   4. Performing auditory comparisons to distinguish similar from dissimilar sounds.  This will be assessed by an exam evaluated by a rubric.
2. Integrate the oral-motoric production of sounds with visual representations (letters).  This will be assessed by an exam evaluated by a rubric.
3. Apply syllabication rules and learned skills to decode unfamiliar single words and written passages.  This will be assessed by an exam evaluated by a rubric.
4. Demonstrate encoding skills by writing multi-syllable words and dictated sentences.  This will be assessed by an exam evaluated by a rubric.
5.  Detect spelling errors in increasingly complex words or sentences and use skills to correct errors.  This will be assessed by an exam evaluated by a rubric.                   
6.  Verbalize the applicability of skills.  This will be assessed by an exam evaluated by a rubric.

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