ESL-089 Reading V

Course title: ESL 089 Reading V

Campus: CTEC, Chuuk, Kosrae, Yap

Initiator: Shirley P. Jano

Date: 3 January 2022

Course description

Reading V provides an advanced focus on pre-reading, reading, and post-reading skills and strategies enhancing analytical and critical comprehension.

Hours per Week

No. of Weeks

Total Hours

Semester Credits

Lecture

3

x

16

x

48/16

=

3

Laboratory

x

x

=

Lecture/Lab

x

x

=

Workshop

x

x

=

Total Semester

Credits

=

3

PSLO#

Program

[X]

1. Effective oral communication: capacity to deliver prepared, purposeful presentations designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners’ attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors.

[X]

2. Effective written communication: development and expression of ideas in writing through work in many genres and styles, utilizing different writing technologies, and mixing texts, data, and images through iterative experiences across the curriculum.

[X]

3. Critical thinking: a habit of mind characterized by the comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion.

[X]

4. Problem solving: capacity to design, evaluate, and implement a strategy to answer an open-ended question or achieve a desired goal.

[ ]

5. Intercultural knowledge and competence: a set of cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills and characteristics that support effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural contexts.

[X]

6. Information literacy: the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively and responsibly use and share that information for the problem at hand.

[X]

7. Foundations and skills for life-long learning : purposeful learning activity, undertaken on an ongoing basis with the aim of improving knowledge, skills, and competence.

[ ]

8. Quantitative Reasoning: ability to reason and solve quantitative problems from a wide array of authentic contexts and everyday life situations; comprehends and can create sophisticated arguments supported by quantitative evidence and can clearly communicate those arguments in a variety of formats.

CSLO (General) 1: Demonstrate approaches to academic reading through pre-reading activities.

Student Learning Outcome (specific)

ISLO

PSLO

Assessment Strategies

1.1 Preview or survey academic materials to discover topic, key ideas, and thematic vocabulary.

2, 3

1, 2

Preview or survey an activity to discover the topic, key ideas, and thematic vocabulary in the reading. ;Assignments and/or group work will be assessed with a rubric or checklist.

1.2 Relate prior knowledge and/or utilize new background knowledge in order to improve comprehension of content.

2, 3, 4

1, 2

Write or share a personal narrative in the past and present to reading comprehension. Assessed with a rubric.

CSLO (General) 2: Develop knowledge of reading strategies through reading activities to enhance reading comprehension.

Student Learning Outcomes (specific)

ISLO

PSLO

Assessment Strategies

2.1 Find the main idea in academic content-based materials & read critically in order to detect implied ideas and make inferences about the text

1,2,3,4

1, 2

Reading passages, activities, quizzes, or mastery tests to find main ideas assessed with a checklist.

2.2 Draw conclusions from academic reading passages and use contextual clues and decoding skills to deduce vocabulary meanings

1,2,3,4

1, 2

Short reading passages, sentence writing activities, and vocabulary knowledge quizzes, or mastery tests assessed with a checklist and a rubric.

2.3 Demonstrate skimming and scanning skills

1,2,3

1, 2

Reading passages, activities, quizzes, or mastery tests to find main ideas assessed with a checklist.

2.4 Expand background knowledge in content areas through thematic reading and develop thematic vocabulary

1,2,3,4,6,7

1, 2

Reading passages, individual and group activities assessed with a checklist.

CSLO (General) 3: Demonstrate post-reading strategies that maximize comprehension and retention of content.

Student Learning Outcomes (specific)

ISLO

PSLO

Assessment Strategies

3.1 Rephrase, explain, and expand on written information to reflect comprehension

1,2,3,4,6,7

1,2

Reflective writing or speech with selected reading materials or movies. Assessed with a rubric.

3.2 Connect new information to information previously learned

1,2,3,4,6,7

1,2

Writing activities (Poem, Personal story, Future goal etc.) assessed with a rubric.

3.3 Summarize or paraphrase main ideas and important details in source material

1,2,3,4,6,7

1,2

Writing summaries and reflection papers assessed with a rubric.

3.4 Synthesize information from what has been read by relating new information to prior knowledge, experience, interests, and opinions

1,2,3,4,6*,7

1,2

Writing activities (Poem, Personal story, Future goal etc.) assessed with a rubric.

ESL 089 Reading V