Building Skills With Stories

Catalog description

Building Skills with Stories is a multi-skills foundations-level course. In this course, students will read fictional stories and use these stories as the context for practicing a variety of skills. A focus will be on developing vocabulary through target words in the stories and through expansion activities. Students will also work on grammar, pronunciation, and spelling as well as improve their writing through responses to the stories and their speaking through discussions about them. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer. Course Learning Outcomes 1. Students will develop a more extensive vocabulary. 2. Students will review basic skills such as knowledge of the alphabet and penmanship, improve spelling of high frequency words, and improve reading fluency and comprehension. 3. Students will improve their writing and speaking fluency as well as their pronunciation. 4. Students will utilize and improve foundations-level grammar. View Class Schedule