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RW 310 - Online Academic Reading III

0 lecture hours 0 lab hours 0 credits


Course Description
Online Academic Reading III is the third in a four-course sequence that develops needed academic skills in the areas of reading comprehension, critical thinking, and vocabulary acquisition. Students will build and employ strategies to aid their reading comprehension and critical thinking abilities, as well as improve their reading speed. They will further develop their academic vocabulary within the context of content-based ESL instruction.  A “Focus on Testing” section will strategically prepare students to be successful test-takers. Students will participate in online group discussions about 21st century topics such as business and money, lifestyles around the world, and language and communication.  Three module projects will also be assigned, through which students will further gain exposure to vocabulary and grammar in an authentic context, as well as utilize the reading skills discussed in the course. (prereq: none)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
Academic Reading and Critical Thinking Strategies

  • Make predictions about a reading
  • Locate and evaluate topic in text
  • Improve reading speed by employing the reading strategies of skimming and scanning
  • Identify main ideas and details in a text
  • Use headings to preview a text
  • Take notes using different types of graphic organizers
  • Summarize and paraphrase a text in your own words
  • Synthesize ideas from a reading
  • Outline specific details from a reading passage
  • Make inferences about the context of a text)
  • Recognize different structures of a text (e.g. comparison, cause effect, problem-solution
  • Utilize reading strategies to become a more successful test-taker

Vocabulary Development

  • Preview vocabulary words to aid comprehension
  • Deduce meanings of new words through context and punctuation
  • Use knowledge of stems and affixes, parts of speech, synonyms and antonyms, and word families to determine the definition of a new word
  • Utilize the academic word list as a guide to vocabulary development
  • Determine the correct dictionary definitions for words with multiple meanings
  • Create new words using affixes and word families 

Prerequisites by Topic
  • None

Course Topics
  • None

Coordinator
Katherine Vernezze



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