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Active as of Summer Session 2012
I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Reading II
2. Course Prefix & Number:
READ 1500
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
4. Course Description:
This course emphasizes critical reading strategies and college-level vocabulary. It presents college reading as information processing and focuses on strategies for improving comprehension, selection, organization, and recall. Reading materials represent a variety of academic disciplines and occupational areas. Course material will focus on textbooks and other types of reading materials prevalent in college. A combination of individual and group work will use both printed material and computers.
5. Placement Tests Required:
Accuplacer (specify test): |
Accuplacer |
Score: |
56 |
6. Prerequisite Courses:
READ 1500 - Reading II
All Credit(s) from the following...
Course Code | Course Title | Credits |
READ 0591 | Reading I | 5 cr. |
9. Co-requisite Courses:
READ 1500 - Reading II
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:
St. Cloud Technical & Community College, READ 0304 Reading Strategies, 3 credits
Alexandria Technical College, READ 0355 College Prep Reading, 2 credits
III. Course Purpose
Other - If this course is not required in a program or is not part of the MN Transfer Curriculum, it may be used for the purpose(s) listed below:
Liberal Arts Elective
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
Demonstrate oral communication skills |
Demonstrate communication and listening skills by asking questions, annotating and note taking. |
Demonstrate reading and listening skills |
Apply appropriate critical reading strategies such as self-monitoring, metacognition, active reading techniques, and adjusting reading rate to the difficulty of reading materials and purpose of reading. |
Assess alternative solutions to a problem |
Apply appropriate reading strategies for reading vocabulary and comprehension. Apply self-correction reading techniques. Demonstrate the use of other resources to (to accommodate their learning style) in order to access information and/or to help them understand difficult or new information. |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Identify the general sense/main idea of a sentence or passage.
- Explain the value and purpose of developing reading and vocabulary skills.
- Demonstrate effective vocabulary-building techniques for reading fluency.
- Recognize patterns of organization in reading.
- Recognize & apply active reading strategies.
- Examine & assess personal reading strengths & weaknesses.
- Understand learning styles.
- Utilize the dictionary effectively.
- Develop a favorable, positive attitude toward reading.
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Active Learning
- Active learning and cognitive psychology
- Brain message
- Divided attention
- Cognitive styles
- Multiple intelligences
- Concentration—causes and cures
- Distractions—internal and external
- Vocabulary
- Remembering new words
- Using context clues
- Understanding the structure of words
- Using a dictionary
- Word origins
- Using a glossary
- Using a thesaurus
- Using analogies
- Easily confused words
- Recognizing acronyms
- Recognizing transitional words
- Strategic Reading and Studying
- Strategic reading—the stages of reading
Strategies for before reading, integrating knowledge while reading, and for recalling after reading
- Main Idea
- Topic, Main Idea, Supporting Details
- Prior knowledge and constructing main idea
- Stated main ideas
- Major and minor ideas
- Unstated main ideas
- Interpreting main ideas of long passages
- Summary writing
- Patterns of Organization
- Textbook organization
- Transitional words
- Mixed organizational patterns
- Organizing Textbook Information
- Demands of college study
- Annotating
- Note taking
- Outlining
- mapping
- Inference
- What is inference?
- Connotation of words
- Figurative language
- Inferences from facts
- Drawing conclusions
- Point of View
- Textbooks and the author’s point of view
- Reader’s point of view
- Fact and opinion
- Author’s purposes and tone
- Points of view in editorial cartoons
- Critical Thinking
- Thinking vs. critical thinking
- Recognizing an argument
- Inductive and deductive reasoning
- Applying the 4-step method for critical thinking
- Creative and critical thinking
- Graphic Illustrations
- Diagrams, tables, maps
- Pie, line, and bar graphs
- Flowcharts
- Rate and Flexibility
- Why reading rate is important
- Your reading rate
- Techniques for faster reading
- Skimming and scanning techniques
- Test Taking
- Can being test wise improve your score?
- Strategies for mental and physical preparation
- Strategies for standardized reading tests
- Recognizing major question types
- Strategies for multiple choice
- Strategies for content area exams
- Locus of control
I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Reading II
2. Course Prefix & Number:
READ 1500
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
4. Course Description:
This course emphasizes critical reading strategies and college-level vocabulary. It presents college reading as information processing and focuses on strategies for improving comprehension, selection, organization, and recall. Reading materials represent a variety of academic disciplines and occupational areas. Course material will focus on textbooks and other types of reading materials prevalent in college. A combination of individual and group work will use both printed material and computers.
5. Placement Tests Required:
Accuplacer (specify test): |
Accuplacer |
Score: |
56 |
6. Prerequisite Courses:
READ 1500 - Reading II
All Credit(s) from the following...
Course Code | Course Title | Credits |
READ 0591 | Reading I | 5 cr. |
9. Co-requisite Courses:
READ 1500 - Reading II
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:
St. Cloud Technical & Community College, READ 0304 Reading Strategies, 3 credits
Alexandria Technical College, READ 0355 College Prep Reading, 2 credits
III. Course Purpose
3. Other - If this course does NOT meet criteria for #1 or #2 above, it may be used for the purpose(s) selected below:
Liberal Arts Elective
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
Demonstrate oral communication skills |
Demonstrate communication and listening skills by asking questions, annotating and note taking. |
Demonstrate reading and listening skills |
Apply appropriate critical reading strategies such as self-monitoring, metacognition, active reading techniques, and adjusting reading rate to the difficulty of reading materials and purpose of reading. |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Identify the general sense/main idea of a sentence or passage.
- Explain the value and purpose of developing reading and vocabulary skills.
- Demonstrate effective vocabulary-building techniques for reading fluency.
- Recognize patterns of organization in reading.
- Recognize & apply active reading strategies.
- Examine & assess personal reading strengths & weaknesses.
- Understand learning styles.
- Utilize the dictionary effectively.
- Develop a favorable, positive attitude toward reading.
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Active Learning
- Active learning and cognitive psychology
- Brain message
- Divided attention
- Cognitive styles
- Multiple intelligences
- Concentration—causes and cures
- Distractions—internal and external
- Vocabulary
- Remembering new words
- Using context clues
- Understanding the structure of words
- Using a dictionary
- Word origins
- Using a glossary
- Using a thesaurus
- Using analogies
- Easily confused words
- Recognizing acronyms
- Recognizing transitional words
- Strategic Reading and Studying
- Strategic reading—the stages of reading
Strategies for before reading, integrating knowledge while reading, and for recalling after reading
- Main Idea
- Topic, Main Idea, Supporting Details
- Prior knowledge and constructing main idea
- Stated main ideas
- Major and minor ideas
- Unstated main ideas
- Interpreting main ideas of long passages
- Summary writing
- Patterns of Organization
- Textbook organization
- Transitional words
- Mixed organizational patterns
- Organizing Textbook Information
- Demands of college study
- Annotating
- Note taking
- Outlining
- mapping
- Inference
- What is inference?
- Connotation of words
- Figurative language
- Inferences from facts
- Drawing conclusions
- Point of View
- Textbooks and the author’s point of view
- Reader’s point of view
- Fact and opinion
- Author’s purposes and tone
- Points of view in editorial cartoons
- Critical Thinking
- Thinking vs. critical thinking
- Recognizing an argument
- Inductive and deductive reasoning
- Applying the 4-step method for critical thinking
- Creative and critical thinking
- Graphic Illustrations
- Diagrams, tables, maps
- Pie, line, and bar graphs
- Flowcharts
- Rate and Flexibility
- Why reading rate is important
- Your reading rate
- Techniques for faster reading
- Skimming and scanning techniques
- Test Taking
- Can being test wise improve your score?
- Strategies for mental and physical preparation
- Strategies for standardized reading tests
- Recognizing major question types
- Strategies for multiple choice
- Strategies for content area exams
- Locus of control