BASIC READING AND WRITING Y

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Basic Reading/Writing provides fundamental skill development in all areas of language arts. It includes reading comprehension and vocabulary development as well as drill and practice opportunities in writing, organizing, speaking, listening, and critical thinking.

  1. WRITING
    1. Writing process
    2. Paragraph development
    3. Types of paragraphs
    4. Personal writing
      1. Journals
      2. Letters
      3. Thank you notes
    5. Essay development
      1. Content/organization
      2. Style
    6. Business writing
      1. Letters
      2. Memos
      3. Applications

  2. READING/LITERATURE
    1. Diagnosis of reading levels
    2. Reading strategies
      1. Prior knowledge (connect what you are reading to what you already know)
      2. Visualize (draw mental image of what you are reading)
      3. Predict (Try to figure out what will happen next)
      4. Question (Ask yourself, "What do I need to know more about?")
    3. Reading comprehension
      1. Explicit main idea, details, sequence, cause and effect
      2. Implicit main idea, details, sequence, cause and effect
      3. Generalization and drawing conclusions
      4. Predictions, comparisons, hypothesis
    4. Reading in the content area
      1. Science
      2. Social studies
      3. Math
    5. Literary selections to reflect different genres
    6. Literary terms

  3. USAGE/GRAMMAR
    1. Parts of speech
    2. Parts of sentence
    3. Types of sentences
    4. Capitalization and punctuation rules
    5. Subject-verb agreement
    6. Usage rules

  4. LANGUAGE/VOCABULARY
    1. Context clues
    2. Content area vocabulary

  5. RESEARCH/TECHNOLOGY
    1. Media center skills
    2. Writing lab experience
    3. On-line source

  6. SPEAKING/LISTENING
    1. Class speech
    2. Class discussions
    3. Refinement of oral expression
      1. Functional vocabulary related to experiences
      2. Unnecessary words such as and , well, uh
      3. Standard language patterns
    4. Adjustment of listening strategies to purpose and nature of material
    5. Listening for main idea, details, sequences, cause and effect
    6. Listening and responding for a variety of purposes
      1. Enjoyment
      2. Information
    7. Group and individual presentations
    8. Interview technique

 

 

 

 

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