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Active as of Fall Semester 2014
I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Reading I
2. Course Prefix & Number:
READ 0591
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 5
Lecture Hours: 5
4. Course Description:
This course is designed for students who wish to improve their basic reading skills. Coursework includes developing a set of strategies for reading and responding to different types of college-level reading materials with an emphasis on general comprehension of print material, vocabulary development, and effective reading and study techniques. The course will consist of a combination of individual and group work, with an emphasis on student participation and interaction.
5. Placement Tests Required:
| Accuplacer (specify test): |
Accuplacer Score |
Score: |
32 |
6. Prerequisite Courses:
READ 0591 - Reading I
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
READ 0591 - Reading I
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 0300/Reading & Vocabulary, 3 credits
Alexandria Technical College, READ 0098/Critical Reading Skills, 3 credits
2. Transfer - regional institutions with which this course has a written articulation agreement:
III. Course Purpose
Program-Applicable Courses – This course fulfills a requirement for the following program(s):
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:
Developmental Course
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 written communication skills |
Summarize key concepts using assessment strategies consistent with individual learning styles. |
| Demonstrate reading and listening skills |
Adjust 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:
- Utilize reading strategies in order to comprehend a variety of texts;
- Demonstrate effective vocabulary-building techniques;
- Read and comprehend college-level materials independently;
- Comprehend college-level materials for a variety of purposes;
- Interpret text using critical thinking;
- Interpret text using a problem-solving approach;
- Read as a means for lifelong learning;
- Read as a means for lifelong enjoyent;
- Comprehend materials at a strategic level by reflecting on text;
- Comprehend materials at a strategic level by reacting to text;
- Read as a way to understand self;
- Read as a way to understand others;
- Summarize passages from a variety of texts;
- Connect readings to personal experience;
- Connect readings to prior knowledge (schemata).
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
PART ONE - ACQUISITION OF SKILLS
- Identifying personal reading history
- Analyze student's reading background
- Assess student's current reading ability
- Examining the reading process
- Recognize the three phases in the reading process
- Differentiate between reading on, between, and beyond the lines
- Examining the role of SQ3R when reading to study
- Develop a reading strategy for textbook reading
- Apply SQ3R procedure to textbook reading
- Identifying strategies to improve vocabulary
- Classify three types of context clues to increase vocabulary
- Define unfamiliar words using structural analysis
- Identifying central theme and main idea
- Determine the central theme of a passage
- Locate the main idea of a passage
- Identifying major details
- Distinguish between major and minor details of a passage
- Evaluate the importance of minor details of a passage
- Examining how maps, outlines, and visuals help with reading
- Construct concept maps or outlines to aid in comprehending a passage
- Examine visuals to increase understanding of a passage
- Analyzing inferences
- Define the term inference
- Distinguish between valid and invalid inferences
- Examining critical reading
- Distinguish between the terms fact and opinion
- Use facts and opinions to increase comprehension of a passage
- Examining critical reading: what are the author’s strategies?
- Question the author’s intent, craft, clarity, and organization of a passage
- Identify a selection’s intended audience purpose, and tone
- Critical reading: summarizing
- Identify the main points of a reading selection
- Capture the author’s intended audience purpose, and tone
- Examining the reader’s response
- Explore the connection between the reading selection and student’s prior knowledge
- Share a spoken or written response to a question concerning the reading selection
PART TWO - APPLICATION OF SKILLS
- Students apply skills by reading a variety of expository text regarding people in various actions, events, choices, and goals as gleaned from a range of academic disciplines
- Each reading selection is introduced with a discussion question in order to access prior knowledge and engage schemata
- Vocabulary is introduced, defined, and assessed by student exercises
- Comprehension questions follow each selection, to include central theme and main idea, details, inferences, critical reading, and summarizing
- Readers respond, react, and reflect with discussion and/or written journal
2. Laboratory/Studio Sessions
I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Reading I
2. Course Prefix & Number:
READ 0591
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 5
Lecture Hours: 5
4. Course Description:
This course is designed for students who wish to improve their basic reading skills. Coursework includes developing a set of strategies for reading and responding to different types of college-level reading materials with an emphasis on general comprehension of print material, vocabulary development, and effective reading and study techniques. The course will consist of a combination of individual and group work, with an emphasis on student participation and interaction.
5. Placement Tests Required:
| Accuplacer (specify test): |
Accuplacer Score |
Score: |
32 |
6. Prerequisite Courses:
READ 0591 - Reading I
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
READ 0591 - Reading I
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 0300/Reading & Vocabulary, 3 credits
Alexandria Technical College, READ 0098/Critical Reading Skills, 3 credits
2. Transfer - regional institutions with which this course has a written articulation agreement:
III. Course Purpose
1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course fulfills a requirement for the following program(s):
3. Other - If this course does NOT meet criteria for #1 or #2 above, it may be used for the purpose(s) selected below:
Developmental Course
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 written communication skills |
Summarize key concepts using assessment strategies consistent with individual learning styles. |
| Demonstrate reading and listening skills |
Adjust 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:
- Utilize reading strategies in order to comprehend a variety of texts;
- Demonstrate effective vocabulary-building techniques;
- Read and comprehend college-level materials independently;
- Comprehend college-level materials for a variety of purposes;
- Interpret text using critical thinking;
- Interpret text using a problem-solving approach;
- Read as a means for lifelong learning;
- Read as a means for lifelong enjoyent;
- Comprehend materials at a strategic level by reflecting on text;
- Comprehend materials at a strategic level by reacting to text;
- Read as a way to understand self;
- Read as a way to understand others;
- Summarize passages from a variety of texts;
- Connect readings to personal experience;
- Connect readings to prior knowledge (schemata).
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
PART ONE - ACQUISITION OF SKILLS
- Identifying personal reading history
- Analyze student's reading background
- Assess student's current reading ability
- Examining the reading process
- Recognize the three phases in the reading process
- Differentiate between reading on, between, and beyond the lines
- Examining the role of SQ3R when reading to study
- Develop a reading strategy for textbook reading
- Apply SQ3R procedure to textbook reading
- Identifying strategies to improve vocabulary
- Classify three types of context clues to increase vocabulary
- Define unfamiliar words using structural analysis
- Identifying central theme and main idea
- Determine the central theme of a passage
- Locate the main idea of a passage
- Identifying major details
- Distinguish between major and minor details of a passage
- Evaluate the importance of minor details of a passage
- Examining how maps, outlines, and visuals help with reading
- Construct concept maps or outlines to aid in comprehending a passage
- Examine visuals to increase understanding of a passage
- Analyzing inferences
- Define the term inference
- Distinguish between valid and invalid inferences
- Examining critical reading
- Distinguish between the terms fact and opinion
- Use facts and opinions to increase comprehension of a passage
- Examining critical reading: what are the author’s strategies?
- Question the author’s intent, craft, clarity, and organization of a passage
- Identify a selection’s intended audience purpose, and tone
- Critical reading: summarizing
- Identify the main points of a reading selection
- Capture the author’s intended audience purpose, and tone
- Examining the reader’s response
- Explore the connection between the reading selection and student’s prior knowledge
- Share a spoken or written response to a question concerning the reading selection
PART TWO - APPLICATION OF SKILLS
- Students apply skills by reading a variety of expository text regarding people in various actions, events, choices, and goals as gleaned from a range of academic disciplines
- Each reading selection is introduced with a discussion question in order to access prior knowledge and engage schemata
- Vocabulary is introduced, defined, and assessed by student exercises
- Comprehension questions follow each selection, to include central theme and main idea, details, inferences, critical reading, and summarizing
- Readers respond, react, and reflect with discussion and/or written journal
2. Laboratory/Studio Sessions