XHSC 0911K Reading Strategies for College

Credits: .5

Develops and enhances reading strategies. Explores techniques for better understanding and development of summarizing, inference, context clues, inter-textual relationships, metacognition, critical thinking, visual literacy, and vocabulary.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Use a variety of comprehension strategies for better understanding of material.
Determine meanings of words using contextual and structural clues.
Make connections to text, within text, and among texts across subject areas.
Identify and/or summarize sequence of events, main ideas, facts, supporting details, and opinions in informational and practical selections.
Infer an author’s unstated meaning and draw conclusions about an author’s stated meaning based on facts, events, images, patterns or symbols found in text.
Analyze key elements of fiction: character, theme, tone, figurative language.

Content Outline

Introduction to Reading Strategies
- Critical thinking strategies for college
- Preparing to read a college text
- Purpose as a reader
- Reading actively
- Reflecting on a text
- Organizing and using what you have read
- Metacognitive strategies
Short Articles and Essays
- Context Clues
- Identifying topic and main idea
- Fact and opinion
- Rhetorical strategies
- Fallacies
- Figurative language in nonfiction text
Short Stories
- Inference and theme
- Analyzing figurative language
- Point of view
- Tone