Foundations Reading

Catalog description

Foundations Reading is designed for beginning students with limited or no basic formal instruction in reading in English. The purpose of this course is to develop a strong foundation in basic reading literacy skills, the General Service List vocabulary, beginning academic vocabulary, and spelling foundations to improve reading skills. Students at this level engage in silent sustained reading primarily of non-fiction, high interest texts in groups with teacher support. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer. Course Learning Outcomes 1. Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the first 1000 words on the General Service List, demonstrate understanding of key academic vocabulary from Active test. 2. Students will be able to differentiate between details and main ideas in simplified, short texts, demonstrate late within word pattern stage of spelling ability, demonstrate ability to understand the basic concept of inferences and make basic inferences of basic texts. 3. Students will be able to read and understand basic sentences and short texts, understand and complete basic documents and forms, use text titles to make basic predictions about a text, make and check basic reading predictions, locate and identify main ideas of simplified texts. 4.. Students will be able to read and understand basic written instructions for assessment and classroom. View Class Schedule