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Reading Courses

Course Description

READ 0802 Learning Support Reading II (2)
This Reading co-requisite is linked with ENGL 1010 and focuses on students mastering Tennessee Board of Regents approved reading competencies that address essential topics such as: vocabulary development, main ideas, major and minor supporting details, inferential reading, critical/logical reading, and strategic reading. Students’ reading assignments will be based on diagnostic reading assessments and ENGL 1010 reading assignments. This course incorporates online exercises that supplement classroom instruction to support reading projects and assignments in ENGLISH 1010. Upon completion of READ 0802, the student receives two (2) institutional credits. (Prerequisite: ACT Reading 0-18 or equivalent; Co-requisite: English 1010).

LEARNING SUPPORT COMPETENCIES FOR READING:

The Tennessee Board of Regents system has identified two competencies for its Reading programs. They are identified in the tables below:
 

Learning Support Competencies for Reading

First Competency Mastery Point for Learning Support in Reading

The student will successfully demonstrate mastery of the following skills and strategies when reading and studying uncomplicated early high school level passages (readability of 9-10th grade)

Exit Competency Mastery Point for Learning Support in Reading

The student will successfully demonstrate mastery of the following skills and strategies when reading and studying uncomplicated college entry-level passages.
Main Ideas Identify clear main ideas or purpose. Identify and infer main ideas or purpose.
Supporting Details Locate basic facts that are clearly stated. Summarize basic ideas and events. Locate important details. Summarize basic ideas and events.
Organization/Relationship Determine when events occurred. Identify clear cause-effect relationships. Identify similarities and difference between people, ideas and events. Order simple sequences of events. Identify clear cause-effect relationships. Identify similarities and differences between people, ideas,and events.
Vocabulary Development Use context to understand words and phrases, including basic figurative language. Use context to understand literal and figurative language.
Critical Reading/Logic

Draw simple generalizations and conclusions about people ideas, and so on.

Distinguish fact from opinion. 

Demonstrate the ability tot comprehend, apply, analyze,synthesize, and evaluate information and ideas from text.

Draw generalizations and conclusions about people, ideas, and son on.

Distinguish fact from opinion; evaluate assertion and evidence.

Demonstrate the use of cognitive reading process elements to aid comprehension and memory, such as activating, integrating,and building background knowledge; using visual and other sensory images; and developing emotional connections to text.
Strategic Reading

Demonstrate the use of cognitive reading process elements to aid comprehension and memory, such as activating, integrating, and building background knowledge; using visual and other sensory images; and developing emotional connections to text.

Demonstrate appropriate adjustment of reading method and rate according to difficulty of text and purpose for reading.
 
Create effective study guides (maps, outlines, summaries, etc.) that incorporate understanding texts’ of main ideas, supporting details, and organizational patterns.
Use information from visual aids such as maps, charts, graph, time lines, tables, and diagrams in understanding text.
 
Employ a study method that includes steps such as previewing, marking or annotation, questioning and reviewing material. 
 
Use a textbook’s features such as table of contexts, preface, introduction, titles, subtitles, index, glossary, appendix, and bibliography to acquire information efficiently.

Demonstrate the use of cognitive reading process elements to aid comprehension and memory, such as activating, integrating, and building background knowledge; using visual and other sensory images; and developing emotional connections to text.

Demonstrate appropriate adjustment of reading method and rate according to difficulty of text and purpose for reading.
 
Create effective study guides (maps, outlines, summaries, etc.) that incorporate understanding of texts’ main ideas, supporting details, and organizational patterns.
Use information from visual aids such as maps, charts, graph, time lines, tables, and diagrams in understanding text.
 
Employ a study method that includes steps such as previewing, marking or annotation, questioning and reviewing material. 
 
Use a textbook’s features such as table of contexts, preface, introduction, titles, subtitles, index, glossary, appendix, and bibliography to acquire information efficiently.