ELIUP 033 Reading I • 4.5 Cr.
Division
Students learn to scan, locate specific information, improve comprehension, make connections between sounds and letters, build vocabulary, and use a dictionary. Prerequisite: Acceptance to the ELI program.
Outcomes:
After completing this class, students should be able to:
- Scanning
- Identify key words to locate specific information in a limited tim
- Skimming
- Locate main ideas and important details in a passage in a limited time
- Comprehensive and Critical Reading
- Understand the literal meaning of a reading passage
- Identify specific details
- Identify main ideas
- Express feelings about a passage
- Make basic inferences based on given informatio
- Decoding
- Make connections between sounds and lette
- Vocabulary
- Recognize and use a core of vocabulary
- Demonstrate knowledge of basic spelling rules
- Build a vocabulary base of correctly spelled word
- Study Skills
- Use a dictionary to find correctly spelled words
