Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Course Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Course Catalog
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ESOL 0032 - Reading III

Credits: 4
Hours/Week: Lecture None Lab None
Course Description: This course focuses on the skills and strategies needed to read and understand a variety of texts and build academic vocabulary. Topics include identifying main ideas and details in non-fiction, increasing reading comprehension, analyzing fiction, and using college library resources.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): Placement into ESOL 0032 OR completion of ESOL 0022  with a grade of” C” or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. Reading Strategies and Skills
    1. Skimming and scanning
    2. Reading strategies appropriate for various text types
    3. Using context clues
    4. Identifying main ideas and details
    5. Summarizing and paraphrasing a reading
    6. Organizational patterns
    7. Outlining a text
    8. Elements of fiction
    9. Charts, graphs, and other graphic material
  2. Vocabulary Skills
    1. Using a dictionary
    2. Using context clues to understand new words
    3. Identifying parts of speech and word forms
  3. Types of Texts
    1. Fiction vs. Nonfiction
    2. Textbook organization
    3. Articles and newspaper
    4. Internet resources
  4. Academic Skills in U.S. Culture
    1. Note-taking from a reading
    2. Marking a reading
    3. Test-taking
    4. College and library resources

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. use reading strategies to increase comprehension.
  2. determine which reading strategies are effective for a given type of text.
  3. recognize simple patterns of organization.
  4. identify main ideas and details in a variety of texts.
  5. summarize and paraphrase.
  6. use context clues to understand new vocabulary.
  7. produce an outline of a non-fiction passage.
  8. explain the elements of fiction.
  9. describe connections between readings and personal experience.
  10. interpret charts, graphs, maps, tables, and other graphic material.
  11. use library, campus, and computer resources.

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies
Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6)
None
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
None


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