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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
ESL 315R | Title:
HIGH INTERM ESL READING |
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| Full Title:
High 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 315R
Catalog Description:
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Designed to further develop reading, vocabulary and study skills for students' academic and employment needs. Recommended for non-native speakers of English.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Qualifying ESL Placement Test score; OR Course Completion of ESL 313R with grade of C or better or Pass.
Recommended Preparation:
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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Designed to further develop reading, vocabulary and study skills for students' academic and employment needs. Recommended for non-native speakers of English.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:Qualifying ESL Placement Test score; OR Course Completion of ESL 313R 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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Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Employ level-appropriate pre-reading skills.
2. Identify main ideas, details and organizational patterns.
3. Summarize short adapted and unadapted fiction and nonfiction reading selections.
4. Use contextual clues to determine the meaning of new vocabulary.
5. Recognize and apply basic affixes and roots to determine the meaning of new vocabulary.
6. Use basic elements of fiction to analyze short readings.
7. Utilize SRJC online catalog to find books by title, subject and/or author.
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 readings
2. Main and supporting details in unadapted newspaper and magazine articles and adapted selections from academic texts
3. Organizational patterns in adapted academic readings
4. Transition words and phrases
5. Inference skills
6. Summarizing short adapted readings
B. Fiction Reading
1. Pre-reading skills to predict plot and theme
2. Elements of fiction in short stories and poetry such as point-of-view, setting, character (protagonist, antagonist), conflict, plot, climax, and theme
3. Sensory and figurative language such as simile and metaphor
4. Summarizing
C. Vocabulary Skills
1. Contextual clues to infer meaning
2. Basic high-frequency affixes and roots
D. Information Literacy Skills
1. Use of periodicals such as popular magazines and newspapers
2. Use of SRJC Library online catalog/databases
Assignments:
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The following represent the types of assignments that may be included:
A. In-class work
1. Vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises
2. Pair and group activities, includes oral presentations
3. Discussions analyzing readings and a variety of themes
4. Objective exams and quizzes
5. Summarizing activities
6. Timed nonfiction reading
7. Silent sustained reading
8. Exercises using SRJC Library online catalog/databases
B. Homework
1. Comprehension exercises from the assigned textbook including main idea, supporting details, and organizational patterns
2. Vocabulary journal of high-frequency vocabulary found in fiction and nonfiction readings
3. Summaries of short stories and nonfiction articles
4. Reader response journals
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
Concepts for Today, 2nd ed., by Smith & Mare, Heinle-Cengage Learning, 2004
For Your Information 3, by Blanchard & Root, Longman, 2000
Reading Explorer 3, by Douglas, Heinle Cengage Learning, 2010
Well Read 2: Skills and Strategies for Reading, by Dobiecka & Wiederholt, Oxford University Press, 2008
Fiction
Personal Themes in Literature, by Jorgensen & Whiteson, Prentice Hall/Regents, 1993
The House on Mango Street, by Cisneros, Vintage, 2009
Miscellaneous
ESL Reading Cart - contains a selection of fiction readers
Instructor-prepared materials
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