Reading 4 - 252 njd

  

Course number:                                   252 njd

Course level:                                         4  

Hours of instruction per week:           2

Course description:  

Comprehension of the main ideas and supporting details that are explicitly or implicitly stated in a printed text of about 2000 words long, at a high intermediate-low advanced level, in any subject area (medicine, computer science, politics, literary, agricultural, education, media..), any text type (narrative, expository, persuasive, informative, descriptive, biography, interview, newspaper article), of any organizational structure (enumeration, cause-effect, comparison-contrast, argumentative…). They should also be able to infer the meanings of new words from context without using a dictionary, break down words into prefixes, suffixes, and roots, and identify the parts of speech through inflectional endings, suffixes and word order, identify the organizational clues, and outline the topics and subtopics of the text. Be able to write out a summary.

Text book:

Mosaic 2\ Silver Edition

Course Syllabus: