READ C036 Developmental Reading
CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION
This reading course helps students improve their reading
skills. Emphasis is placed on development of word
recognition, vocabulary, paragraph analysis, and
comprehension.
REQUISITES
none
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be
able to
- recognize and employ new vocabulary items.
- use a variety of word attack strategies such as phonic
analysis, word part identification, dictionary use, and
context clue recognition.
- comprehend paragraphs more readily by identifying
topics, main ideas, and supporting details of paragraphs.
- recognize paragraph organizational patterns such as
comparison/contrast, cause and effect, time order,
definition and example.
- recognize transitional words and explain how they relate
ideas in sentences and paragraphs.
- read at an increased rate.
- read more actively by marking text and making useful
marginal notes.
- demonstrate comprehension over a longer period of time.
- understand and apply ideas in readings to one’s own life
experiences.
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