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Beginning Reading
Beginning Reading ESOL 0342
A beginning course in reading English. Emphasis is placed on vocabulary building, reading skills and simple spelling. Instruction is individualized.
This course seeks to prepare students for college level academic or workforce study by accomplishing the following objectives:
· Introducing reading skills including word forms, synonyms and antonyms and finding the main idea
· Building vocabulary including acquisition of estimated vocabulary of 500-1,000 words
· Increasing awareness of spelling, dictionary usage and interpreting the author's purpose
· Carrying out an extensive reading program through the use of graded readers
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· Developing elementary critical reading skills: learning to recognize support for a thesis in a text.
