ESL 005A: Advanced College Reading & Writing Skills

• Apply prewriting and outlining skills to develop strong paragraphs and essays.
• Understand and apply American discourse pattern to writing.
• Understand and use Unity, Support, Coherence, and Sentence Skills in writing academic essays.
• Write compositions that develop a topic or thesis in a coherent and unified manner and that have clearly delineated beginnings, middles and ends.
• Demonstrate reasonable control of commonly recurring grammatical errors.
• Use Pre-reading strategies to improve reading comprehension.
• Use a variety of reading strategies for text analysis.
• Increase academic vocabulary through word stems, word building, and context reading skills.

Reading Skills:

1. Pre-reading Strategies:
   1. Prior Knowledge
   2. Previewing Title, Introduction, Headings/Sub-headings
   3. Examine graphics, words in print
   4. Predicting
2. Comprehension Skills:
   1. Determine the Topic
   2. Located the Stated Main Idea
   3. Formulating an Implied Main Idea
   4. Identifying Supporting Details
3. Recognizing the Author's Writing Patterns
4. Reading Critically:
   1. Determining the Author's Point of View
   2. Determining the Author's Purpose
   3. Determining the Intended Audience
   4. Recognizing Tone
5. Thinking Critically about a Text
   1. Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion
   2. Making Inferences
6. Writing in Response to Reading
7. Evaluating Sources
8. Study Skill Strategies
   1. Comprehension Monitoring
   2. Evaluating Understanding
   3. Asking and Answering Questions About a Text
   4. Note Taking
   5. Interpreting Graphic Aids
   6. Outlining
   7. Summarizing and Paraphrasing
9.  Vocabulary
   1. Word Building & Word Stems
   2. Reading in Context
   3. Vocabulary Strategies

 Writing and Composition:

1. Diagnostic writing
2. Pre-writing
   1. Clustering
   2. Freewriting
   3. Reporter’s Questions (who, what, when, where, why, how)
   4. Making Lists
3. Structuring paragraphs
   1. Topic sentence
   2. Unity- Having one main idea
   3. Support- Having examples and details to support assertions
   4. Coherence- Paragraph and Essay organization & Transitions
      1. Patterns of organization
      2. Transitions and signal words
4. Revising
5. Editing skills
   1. Mechanics and Punctuation
   2. Format
   3. Grammar
   4. Vocabulary
6. Multiple-paragraph essay
   1. Thesis statement
   2. Organization
      1. Introduction
      2. Body
      3. Conclusion
   3. American logic and rhetorical patterns
      1. narrative
      2. cause/effect
      3. comparison/contrast
      4. exemplification
      5. argumentation
   4. Writing in response to readings
      1. Identifying main ideas
      2. Quoting
      3. Paraphrasing
7. Grammar instruction in problem areas
   1. Verb tense--review purposes
   2. ,Fanboys, ;Connector words, and Dept CL
   3. Fragments/ Run-Ons/Comma Splices
   4. Pronoun Use/Agreement
   5. Use of Semi-colon & Colon, 
   6. Sentence types: Simple, Compound, Complex & Compound Complex