AEPR-1002Reading
Students will develop their reading skills through a variety of authentic academic reading texts including formatted, unformatted, instructional and informational texts. Students will engage in a variety of reading tasks with emphasis on improving:
- Reading comprehension (using pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading strategies)
- Understanding of the relationship between ideas and the author's intent and attitude
- Critical and analytical reading
- Performance in identifying the communicative value of text, organization of ideas and structures in texts, and distinguishing between fact and opinion
- Integration of reading and writing by means of notetaking, annotating, outlining, diagramming/mapping
- Study skills and exam-taking strategies
- Skimming and scanning
- Academic vocabulary and vocabulary building skills
