Dec 21, 2024  
2024-2025 WWCC College Catalog 
    
2024-2025 WWCC College Catalog

ELA 030 - ELA B


Credits: 1-11
LEC hours per week: 9
LAB hours per week: 4
This is an integrated course for lower-intermediate English Language Acquisition (ELA) students. In the pursuit of reaching higher educational needs, students improve reading, writing, speaking, listening, grammar, basic math, and digital literacy skills in real life contexts including identifying job and work-related abilities. This course is informed by the College Career and Readiness Standards for Adult Education produced by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Vocational and Adult Education and is not limited to the outcomes below. Upon successful completion of the course, the successful ELA B student will reach the level of ‘proficient’ as listed in the College and Career Readiness rubrics.
Course Outcomes:
 

  • Ask and answer such questions as who, what, when, where, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
  • Determine the main idea of a text; recount key details, and explain how they support the main idea.
  • Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a topic or subject area.
  • Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
  • Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
  • Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occurred).
  • Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).
  • Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
  • Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
  • With guidance and support from peers and others, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revision, and editing.
  • With guidance and support, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
  • Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing oneself clearly.
  • Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
  • Use conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  • Use conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
  • Describe Math problems and persevere in solving them.
  • Construct viable arguments and critique the mathematical reasoning of others.
  • Model with mathematics.
  • Use quantitative reasoning effectively as demonstrated by ability to interpret and draw inferences from tables, formulas, and graphs.
  • Set educational goals as they related to role as worker, citizen, and family member; report progress on these goals; and revise and update goals quarterly.
Course Topics:
 

  1. Writing basics
  2. Washington state history
  3. U.S. history and citizenship
  4. Interpersonal communication
  5. Job search and interviewing
  6. Work readiness
  7. Environmental issues
  8. Effective presentations
  9. Personal inventory
  10. Career exploration
  11. Cross cultural communication
  12. Study skills
  13. Math basics
  14. Budgeting and consumer economics
  15. Contemporary world problems
  16. Computer skills
  17. Study skills
  18. The American education system
  19. Libraries and library resources
  20. Navigating the community
  21. Health and wellness
Course Attribute(s): None