READ C046 Improving Reading Skills
CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION
Students will learn to analyze paragraphs and essays for
stated and unstated main ideas, identify supporting
material, distinguish patterns of organization, recognize
words and phrases that show relationships of ideas, make
reasonable inferences, and draw logical conclusions.
REQUISITES
Prerequisites: READ C036 or Level 3 reading
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will
be able to
- identify the topic and main idea of paragraphs and short
essays.
- identify the supporting points of a main idea in a
paragraph or the central point of an essay.
- recognize the pattern of organization in a paragraph or
essay.
- understand the relationship between an author’s ideas by
observing transitional devices.
- infer an author’s intended but unstated ideas and form
conclusions with greater accuracy.
- understand text structure as well as content more
efficiently.
- read actively by making marginal notes and marking items
for future reference.
- use dictionaries effectively to recognize and define
unfamiliar words and idioms.
- ascertain the meanings of unfamiliar words from the
context of a passage.
- write on and discuss articles, essays, stories and
book-length works.
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