Location

Community Services & Continuing Education - Alexandria

Objectives

• • Read, summarize and analyze own writing and begin to improve writing from critiques.• Improve basic writing skills including proper punctuation, accurate spelling, contractions and use of the 6 Traits of Writing (voice, word choice, conventions, fluency, ideas and organization). • Produce readable and interesting finished products that reflect appropriate academic textual conventions of presentation. • Evaluate reading progress and apply goal setting strategies and monitor progress toward meeting reading goals.• Increase understanding and recall of what is read including facts and importance of the main idea.• Apply comprehension monitoring strategies during and after reading: determine importance using theme, main idea, and supporting details in grade-level.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:• Use resources to increase vocabulary and gain deeper understanding by "reading between the lines".• Know how to tackle a difficult text and reflect reading experiences in writing and discussions.• Use resources to increase vocabulary and gain deeper understanding by using context clues.• Revise own work by adding description and detail and edit work for punctuation, spelling and grammar.• Write legibly moving beyond phonetic spelling toward conventional spelling.• Write with clear beginning, middle and end as well as use paragraphs to organize ideas using a variety of sentence forms.

Course Contents

Books Covered:For Writing:Write Right (3), units covered• entertainment news• Four seasons For Reading:School Subject Readings (3), units covered• flying to Saturn • Gulliver's journey