IELP 068 - Beginning Reading Improvement

Credits: 1-5
LEC hours per week: 5
This course is created for international students and focuses on developing an understanding of the reading process and appreciation for the importance of reading for pleasure, personal growth, and academic success. Encourages and supports improvement of reading strategies to improve comprehension, critical thinking, and reading efficiency to better meet career and college reading demands. Students will be assessed at a level B of the CCRS.
Course Outcomes:

Explain the reading process
Apply reading strategies and monitory comprehension
Formulate judgments utilizing critical thinking skills to determine the author’s purpose
Paraphrase and summarize material from reading
Organize information using strategies such as classification, categorization, and comparison/contrast
Use a wide range of strategies to guide reading of long texts.

Course Topics:

Knowledge needed to understand various types of texts
Metacognition and reading strategies
Social aspects of reading
Personal relationship to reading College readiness