RDG 090 - Basic Reading Skills
Credit Hours: 3
Billable Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisites: Minimum test competencies in Reading must be met before registering for this course (This class does not count toward graduation).
Session Cycle: FW
This is a basic reading course emphasizing essential skills for building literal and critical comprehension proficiency. A placement test score and a counselor’s consultation provide the basis for selecting this reading instruction. This course does not count toward graduation. This course helps students accomplish the following: (1) develop basic reading skills which provide students the opportunity to succeed in college courses selected in the future, (2) show reading proficiency progress as measured by a post-test placement score and (3) work toward gaining admission status to enroll in regular college courses. This course is meant for students whose first language is English.
Notes: Humanities/Social Sciences Division
Theory Hours: 45
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify/Recognize the terminology relating to vocabulary building
- Identify/Recognize the importance of finding supporting details in reading
- Identify/Recognize the differences between implied and directly stated main ideas
- Identify/Recognize the definition and uses of inferences
- Identify/Recognize the terminology relating to critical comprehension
- Identify/Recognize the terminology relating to study reading
- Identify/Recognize the terminology relating to reading speed flexibility
- Demonstrate/Practice the ability to find and evaluate in writing signal words according to functional categories
- Demonstrate/Practice the ability to find and evaluate in writing the main ideas in paragraphs
- Demonstrate/Practice the ability to evaluate in writing the main ideas–explicit or implicit - from a variety of written sources and to summarize, evaluate, and synthesize these materials into a meaningful whole (reading capstone).
- Believe/Feel/Think that reading skills learned in this course will promote effective performance in future learning tasks in both college and work environments
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