RDG 038 - College Preparatory Reading I

1. Apply context clues
   1. Define context clues
   2. Illustrate different categories of context clues
   3. Use context clues to define unfamiliar words
2. Use word structure clues
   1. Define word parts
   2. Recall selected prefixes, roots and suffixes
   3. Define unfamiliar words using knowledge of word parts
3. Develop strategies to use a print or online dictionary
   1. Identify parts of a dictionary entry
   2. Use a dictionary to locate unfamiliar words
   3. Make sense of phonetic spelling to pronounce words
   4. Match appropriate definition to context
   5. Trace etymology to identify word origins
4. Point out main ideas and details in a selection
   1. Define the differences between topics and main ideas, and between major and minor
   2. details in a variety of selections
   3. Locate stated main ideas
   4. Construct implied main ideas
   5. Locate details relative to main ideas
5. Apply basic critical analysis skills to a selection
   1. Define and explain the differences between fact and opinion statements
   2. Produce inferences from various genres of reading
   3. Establish conclusions for a variety of textbook selections
6. Use various components of a textbook
   1. Define sections of a textbook and chapter
   2. Locate information using glossary, table of contents and index
   3. Apply the SQ4R or other study system to textbook readings
7. Examine strategies to understand graphics in textbooks
   1. Identify a variety of graphic formats
   2. Distinguish the steps needed to analyze graphics
   3. Apply the information illustrated by a graphic to the text material
   4. Construct graphics to accompany textbook readings