CAP 003 - CAP Level C

• Students will be evaluated for the following outcomes based on Level B of the Career and College Readiness Standards.
• Reading Foundational Skills:
  • Apply grade level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. (Phonics and word recognition)
  • Read with accuracy and fluency and verify comprehension.
• Reading:
  • Explain the reading process.
  • Apply reading strategies and monitor comprehension.
  • Utilize critical thinking skills to determine the author’s purpose and formulate judgments.
  • Paraphrase and summarize material from reading.
  • Organize and analyze information and reflect upon meaning using strategies such as classification, categorization, and comparison/contrast.
  • Read and comprehend literary and informational texts independently and proficiently based on text complexity appropriate to the level. (Lexile score 740-1010)
• Writing
  • Organize and analyze information and reflect upon its meaning in order to draw sound conclusions.
  • Assess how authors structure text and deploy vocabulary for specific writing purposes, and apply these strategies to one’s own writing.
  • Analyze the ways in which purpose and audience shape the construction of a text.
  • Deploy strategies to plan, organize, and structure complex ideas to produce a legible and comprehensible draft.
  • Moderate vocabulary (including idiom, colloquialisms, and cultural references), sentence structure, voice, tone, rhetorical forms, and style for a variety of audiences and purposes.
  • Evaluate writing and deploy strategies for revising.
  • Use computer technology and learning management systems to access new information, produce written work, and access and submit course materials.
• Speaking and Listening:
  • Discuss a range of topics and collaboration with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
  • Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
  • Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.
  • Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning, organization, development, and style.
  • Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.
• Language:
  • Apply all of the listed conventions of standard English grammar and usage in the Career and College Readiness Language Standards Anchor 1 Level C.
  • Apply all of the listed conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing in the Career and College Readiness Standards Anchor 2, Level C.
  • Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
  • Describe word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
  • Utilize words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using frequently occurring conjunctions to signal simple relationships (e.g., because).
• Mathematics:
  • Skip count by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s.
  • Identify a picture using a rectangle or a circle to represent a fraction.
  • Make a number line with whole numbers from 0-10.
  • Make a number line from -10 to 10.
  • Recall single digit multiplication problems using a multiplication chart.
  • Use a 4-function calculator (add, subtract, multiply, divide) as a tool to help make sense of a problem.
  • Demonstrate the meaning of an equal sign and determine if equations are true or false for addition and subtraction.
  • Identify basic shapes.
  • Identify the type of chart or graph given.
• Employability:
  • Demonstrate regular attendance and punctuality.
  • Organize materials.
  • Compose quality work.
  • Communicate and collaborate effectively with instructors and peers.
  • Identify academic areas needing improvement and create a plan for those improvements.
• Students will show proficiency at Level C in Reading based on the Career and College Readiness standards anchors 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 10 (use reading rubric to determine competency).
• Students will show proficiency at level C in Writing based on the Career and College Readiness standards anchors 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 (use writing rubric to determine competency).
• Students will show proficiency at level C in Speaking and Listening on the Career and College Readiness standards anchors 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
• Students will show proficiency based on the mathematics competency rubric.

1. Topics are selected from CASAS core competencies, Career and College Readiness Standards, and specific course topics related to program requirements. Additional topics are determined based on specific learning needs.