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Academic Reading for the ELL

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Course Goals

course is designed to help English Language Learners (ELL) build their vocabulary, fluency, and reading strategies in order to be prepared for reading-dependent college-level classes

Core Course Topics

Reading comprehension strategies including connecting, questioning, predicting, paraphrasing and summarizing
Locating and identifying topics, main ideas, supporting details and patterns of organization in authentic written and audio sources
Author’s or speaker’s message, audience, purpose and tone
Academic summary
Textbook reading strategies, guided note taking and active learning strategies with written and audio sources
Vocabulary study and idioms
Academic discussion and presentation skills
American cultural literacy Source credibility

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Integrate a variety of reading comprehension strategies including, but not limited to, connecting, questioning, predicting, visualizing and summarizing.

Discriminate between topics, main ideas, supporting details within various patterns of organization in authentic written and audio fiction and non-fiction sources.

Create graphic organizers and verbal evidence of ability to read and listen critically and analyze the authors message, audience, purpose and tone.

Summarize text using academic English.

Create and modify notes from textbook reading.

Illustrate increased vocabulary and idiom knowledge.

Design and facilitate academic presentations and discussions.

Demonstrate college-level American cultural literacy.

Recognize and practice researching credible sources, and/or explain and defend sources to show appropriate use.