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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
ESL 313R | Title:
INTERM ESL READING |
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| Full Title:
Intermediate ESL Reading |
| Last Reviewed:2/22/2010 |
| Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
| Maximum | 3.00 | Lecture Scheduled | 3.00 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 52.50 |
| Minimum | 3.00 | Lab Scheduled | 0 | 6 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| | Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| | Contact Total | 3.00 | | Contact Total | 52.50 |
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| | Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| | Total Out of Class Hours: 105.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50 | |
Title 5 Category:
AA Degree Non-Applicable
Grading:
Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:
00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As:
Formerly:
ENGL 313R
Catalog Description:
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Designed to improve reading skills necessary for social, academic, and workplace situations. Recommended for non-native speakers of English.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Qualifying ESL Placement Test score; OR Course Completion of ESL 310 or ESL 310B with grade of C or better or Pass.
Recommended Preparation:
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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Designed to improve reading skills necessary for social, academic, and workplace situations. Recommended for non-native speakers of English.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:Qualifying ESL Placement Test score; OR Course Completion of ESL 310 or ESL 310B with grade of C or better or Pass.
Recommended:
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
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Certificate/Major Applicable:
Not Certificate/Major Applicable
COURSE CONTENT
Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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1. Employ level-appropriate pre-reading skills.
2. Identify main ideas, details and organizational patterns.
3. Summarize short adapted fiction and nonfiction reading selections.
4. Use contextual clues to determine the meaning of new vocabulary.
5. Recognize simple affixes and roots and begin to apply this knowledge to determine the meaning of new vocabulary.
6. Begin to use basic elements of fiction to analyze short readings.
7. Access basic elements of college online catalog.
8. Improve reading speed and comprehension.
Topics and Scope
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A. Nonfiction Reading
1. Pre-reading skills to survey, predict, skim and scan headings
2. Main idea in adapted newspaper and magazine articles and selections from adapted texts
3. Supporting details
4. Transition words and phrases
5. Differentiation between fiction and nonfiction
6. Basic inference skills
7. Summarizing short adapted readings
B. Fiction Reading
1. Pre-reading skills to predict plot events and theme
2. Elements of fiction in short stories and poetry such as setting, character (protagonist, antagonist), plot and theme
3. Basic plot summarizing
C. Word Attack Skills
1. Simple contextual clues to infer meaning
2. Basic affixes and roots
D. Information Literacy Skills
1. Use of popular magazines and newspapers
2. Use of SRJC Library online catalog
Assignments:
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The following represent types of assignments that may be included:
A. In-class work
1. Vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises
2. Pair and group activities, including oral presentations
3. Discussions analyzing readings and a variety of themes
4. Objective quizzes and exams
5. Summarizing activities
6. Timed nonfiction reading
7. Silent Sustained reading
8. Exercises using SRJC Library online catalog
B. Homework
1. Comprehension exercises from the assigned textbook including main idea and supporting details
2. Vocabulary log journal of high frequency vocabulary found in fiction and nonfiction readings
3. Short summaries
4. Reader response journals
5. Using the SRJC Library online catalog to select an easy reader
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
| Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing
20 - 40% |
| Written homework, summaries and journals | |
| Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
50 - 70% |
| Objective quizzes and exams, midterm and final tests | |
| Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category
10 - 15% |
| Class attendance and participation, oral presentations, timed reading charts | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Nonfiction
Impressions 1, by Benz & Benz, Thomson-Heinle, 2008
Issues for Today, 3rd ed., by Smith & Mare, Thomson-Heinle, 2004
Reading Explorer 2, by MacIntyre, Heinle, 2009
Well Read 1, by Blass, Oxford University Press, 2008
All About the USA, by Broukal, Pearson-Longman, 2007
Fiction
Stories We Brought With Us, by Kasser & Silverman, Prentice-Hall, 2001
Miscellaneous
ESL Reading Cart - contains a selection of fiction readers
Instructor-prepared materials
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