Course Objectives

Upon successfully completing this course, you will be able to do the following:

  • Acquire the reading skills necessary to succeed in the reading related requirements of entry-level college credit courses. Using entry-level college reading materials, you will be able to:
    • Relate new information to prior knowledge.
    • Make predictions about the content of materials you are given to read.
    • Skim and scan for specific reading purposes.
    • Differentiate main ideas from major and minor supporting details in written materials.
    • Recognize text patterns.
    • Draw valid conclusions from a variety of graphic aids such as maps, charts, graphs, and diagrams.
    • Demonstrate increased word power on a continuous basis by successfully using context clues, the dictionary, and your knowledge of word parts.
    • Make inferences
  • Integrate your reading and writing skills to promote thinking and learning. Using entry-level college reading materials, you will be able to:
    • Define the reading processes.
    • Comprehend the literal meaning in different types of readings for different purposes.
    • Paraphrase and summarize text without plagiarizing or changing the substantive meanings.
  • Be active, independent learners able to apply integrated learning strategies appropriate to the reading-related task. Using entry-level college reading materials, you will be able to:
    • Differentiate among most facts, opinions, assumptions.
    • Understand inferences in reading and writing.
    • Identify the kind of information you need, locate the resources that have it, and retrieve it from them so that you can share it with others in an organized way when given a particular topic.
    • Demonstrate the ability to draw valid conclusions from a variety of reading tasks.
  • Increase your self-confidence in your ability to be effective readers. Using entry level college reading materials, you will be able to:
    • Understand the role of reading in your academic, professional, and personal lives.
    • Contribute successfully as members of an academic learning-study group.
    • Develop goal-setting strategies for academic success.
    • Identify individual strengths in reading.
  • Understand the role of reading in your academic, professional, and personal lives.