READ 0810 Reading Support for English Composition I

3 lecture hours Credit Hour(s)

Main Ideas

• Identify and infer main ideas and purpose.

Supporting Details

• Locate important details. 
• Summarize basic ideas and events.

Organizational/Relationship

• Order simple sequences of events. 
• Identify clear cause-effect relationships. 
• Identify similarities and differences between people, ideas, and events.

Vocabulary Development

• Use context to understand literal and figurative language.

Critical Reading/Logic

• Draw generalizations and conclusions about people and ideas. 
• Distinguish fact from opinion; evaluate assertions and evidence.
• Demonstrate the ability to comprehend, apply, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information and ideas from text.

Strategic Reading

• Demonstrate the use of cognitive reading process elements to aid comprehension and memory, such as activating, integrating, and building background knowledge; using visual and other sensory images; and developing emotional connections to text. 
• Demonstrate appropriate adjustment of reading method and rate according to difficulty of text and purpose for reading. 
• Create effective study guides (maps, outlines, summaries, etc.) that incorporate understanding of a text’s main ideas, supporting details, and organizational patterns.
• Use information from visual aids such as maps, charts, graphs, timelines, tables, and diagrams in understanding text. 
• Employ a study method that includes steps such as previewing, marking or annotation, questioning, and reviewing material. 
• Use a textbook’s features such as table of contents, preface, introduction, titles, subtitles, index, glossary, appendix, and bibliography to acquire information efficiently.