[ELA] Corrective Reading Semester A (1 of 1): Extended Campus (SM)

Do you want to be a better reader and writer? Well, you are in the right place. Intensive Reading provides instruction and practice for developing reading and writing skills. You will learn and review skills for reading, comprehending, and analyzing fictional stories and informational articles. The lessons guide you to success in reading with understanding.

A review of phonics, decoding, and fluency skills reinforces basic reading techniques. You can key in on an author's intent as you learn to determine topics, central ideas, and themes. Making inferences and comparing and contrasting topics and themes can show you even more about an author's ideas. When you read nonfiction, you can determine arguments, claims, and evidence as you focus on more complex details and ideas. Another skill you can practice is integrating information from multiple articles. Writing responses helps to reinforce comprehension of what you have read.

This course aims to help you become a more effective reader. Reading effectively can help you wherever your career takes you.

Major Concepts

letter-sound correspondences in words
syllable patterns in words
roots and affixes in words
accuracy, rate, and expression when reading
topics
central ideas
themes
summarizing
text structure
figurative, connotative, and technical language
word choice
explicit and implicit details
inferences
comparing and contrasting
arguments, claims, reasoning, and evidence
integrating information
context clues
phrases and clauses
complete sentences and sentence types
commas and quotation marks
responses to text

Projects

Project 1: Summarizing Text
Project 2: Explaining the Development of Ideas
Project 3: Making Inferences
Project 4: Comparing and Contrasting
Project 5: Tracing an Argument and Its Claims
Final Project: Understanding and Analyzing Stories and Articles