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High School Intensive Reading: Fields of Reading

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Suggested Prerequisites

N/A

Description

Ready to sharpen your reading and writing skills? In this course, you will refine your skills with reading and writing so you are able to read and write grade-level texts independently. You will focus on reading comprehension, writing fluency, and vocabulary study through the use of a variety of literary and informational texts that encompass a broad range of text structures, genres, and levels of complexity. You will encounter a wide range of topics, and engage in interactive text-based discussions, question generation, and research opportunities.

Module One: Informational Text

-Theme

-Central idea

-Domain-specific language

-Precise language

-Author’s purpose

-Tone and diction

-Analyzing informational texts

-Finding details

-Compare/contrasting

-Using context clues

-Summarizing

-Applying text features to aid comprehension


Module Two: Writing Skills

-Writing process

-Research

-Collecting research

-Evaluating reliable sources

-Creating an outline

-Writing a research paper


Module Three: Narratives

-Fiction

-Short story

-Genre

-Plot structure

-Theme

-Characterization

-Comprehension

-Note-taking

-Text-marking

-Answering text-dependent questions

Module Four: Reading Informational Nonfiction

-Central idea

-Domain-specific language

-Text structure

-Tone

-Mood

-Diction

-Connotation and denotation

-Reading and analyzing informational text

-Summarizing

-Using context clues

-Answering text-dependent questions


Module Five: Drama and Poetry

-Drama

-Poetry

-Figurative language

-Sarcasm

-Compare/contrast

-Analyzing characters

-Analyzing language

-Comparing interpretations of source material

-Writing an adaptation of source material


Module Six: Arguments

-Compare and contrast

-Argument analysis

-Characteristics of an effective claim

-Appeals to logic, emotion, and ethics

-Domain-specific language

-Precise language

-Analyzing arguments

-Stating a claim

-Analyzing rhetorical devices

-Answering text-dependent questions on argument

-Understanding parts of an argument