ENG 097W, Effective Reading and Vocabulary Development I

Prerequisite: READING LEVEL 3. Designed for those whose academic and personal needs call for building skills, confidence, greater comprehension, and enjoyment of reading. The course includes techniques for understanding and remembering a wider reading vocabulary. Consideration will be given to applying reading strategies to a wide variety of reading materials under the guidance of an instructor. (60-0)

Outcomes and Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Apply appropriate active reading strategies to a variety of texts.

• Develop strategies for and awareness of many kinds of reading, such as fiction,
  autobiography, short journalistic features, and academic/expository texts.
• Apply and modify active reading strategies before, during, and after reading, with special emphasis on previewing, predicting, accessing prior knowledge, questioning, and summarizing.
• Appropriately adapt goals and approaches to reading, depending upon the text and purpose.
• Apply appropriate study strategies to the reading of texts for academic/study purposes. This includes text annotation, written summary of textbook material, mapping, and note taking.

Comprehend a variety of texts appropriate to beginning college academic work.

• Check comprehension by learning to infer topic, thesis/focus, and supporting examples and details in a reading.
• Use visual strategies to organize a college reading. These strategies include map, outline, and summary in order.
• Use test-preparation, test-taking, and post test self- evaluation strategies.
• Analyze, summarize, paraphrase, and synthesize from reading, both orally and in writing.
• Practice identifying obvious organizational patterns in beginning level college readings. These patterns include chronological order, listing, definition, cause/effect, comparison/contrast, generalization/illustration, and problem/solution in passages of several paragraphs.
• Demonstrate ability to preview and gain meaning from basic organization of fiction and non-fiction books: book title, preface and epilogue elements, chapter title and divisions, book jacket and "about the author" elements, glossary and index.

Apply various techniques for learning new vocabulary encountered while reading.

• Develop a beginning awareness of English as an evolving language and lexicon, with roots in several other languages.
• Appropriately apply dictionary skills to broaden reading vocabulary and locate definition and spelling.
• Derive clues to word meanings from context.
• Apply memory strategies in learning new vocabulary.
• Use word parts, such as prefix, suffix, and roots, to analyze and understand complex words.
• Speak and write using a broadened vocabulary as a result of the course.

Develop confidence and enjoyment that will contribute to life long appreciation of reading.

• Demonstrate ability to choose and gain meaning and enjoyment from a text.
• Demonstrate awareness of a range of reading materials for personal satisfaction.
• Personalize reading analysis, selection, and responses to suit ongoing lifelong individual satisfaction in the reading process.

Participate in "writing to learn" activities.

• Perform writing tasks to promote learning.
• Write effectively for a specific audience and purpose.
• Demonstrate the learning of concepts through writing.  

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