READ 0810 - Learning Support Reading

3 sem hrs cr

This course emphasizes the development and use of reading skills necessary for successful completion of collegiate-level courses. Students will improve their critical-thinking and reading-comprehension abilities via small-group work, individualized instruction, and computerized study plans. Students enrolled in READ 0810 must also enroll in MSCC 1300 as a co-requisite for this course. Corequisite: MSCC 1300  

Students enrolled in READ 0810 must also be enrolled in an MSCC 1300  course during the same semester, which should have the same starting and ending dates as the 0810 course.

This course may include proctored exams which must be completed on campus or at an instructor approved proctoring center which may require additional costs to the student. Please consult your instructor for additional details.

Transfer (UT) or Non-Transfer Course (UN): UN

Diagnostics and Competency Mastery: Students will complete a diagnostic pre-test during the first week of class to provide a secondary assessment of basic skills. Based on the pre-test results, students will be assigned an individualized study plan.

First Competency Mastery Point: Students will demonstrate mastery of the following skills and strategies when reading and studying uncomplicated early high-school-level passages (readability of 9–10th grade). Module I, Vocabulary, and Module II, Comprehension, address the first competency point.

• Main Ideas
  • ​Identify clear main ideas or purpose of text
• Supporting Details
  • ​Locate basic facts that are clearly stated
  • Summarize basic ideas and events
• Organization/Relationships
  • ​Determine when events occurred
  • 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
• Critical Reading/Logic 
  • Draw simple generalizations and conclusions about people, ideas, and so on
  • Distinguish between fact from opinion
  • Demonstrate the ability to comprehend, apply, synthesize, and evaluate information, as well as ideas from text
• Strategic Reading
  • Demonstrate the use of cognitive reading process elements to aid comprehension and memory, such as activating, integrating, and building background knowledge
  • Use visual and other sensory images
  • Develop emotional connections to text
  • Demonstrate appropriate adjustment of reading method and rate according to the difficulty of text and purpose for reading
  • Create effective study guides (maps, outlines, summaries, etc.) that incorporate understanding texts’ main ideas, supporting details, and organizational patterns
  • Use information from visual aids such as maps, charts, graphs, 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 textbook features such as table of content, preface, introduction, title, subtitle, index, glossary, appendix, and bibliography to acquire information effectively