Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
OPIE D702 - Advanced Reading Skills
Provides students with both an understanding of the reading process and intensive practice in developing advanced-level reading strategies and skills. It is designed to improve reading comprehension, reading speed, academic vocabulary, and awareness of text structures and rhetorical patterns.
Requisites: Permission required
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 24.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: ,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Student develops target vocabulary skills: recognition of word form and function, comprehension and production of target vocabulary, ability to determine meanings and of unfamiliar words using context clues.
- Student identifies main ideas of a passage by answering questions, recalling/retelling information, explaining time relationships, and choosing most accurate paraphrase of central idea.
- Student reads in-class texts at a rate of 125 wpm with at least 75% comprehension.
- Student recognizes and understands minor points and supporting details, and distinguishes between explicit/implicit information and fact/opinion and recognizes the author’s purpose.
- Student successfully uses target reading comprehension strategies: use of table of contents, index, and appendices; use of SQ3R to survey a text; effective use of skimming and scanning skills.
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