An introduction to basic reading skills, including skimming and scanning, differentiating main ideas from supporting details and examples, identifying common prefixes and suffixes, and figuring out the meaning of words from context clues. Dictionary exercises used to practice alphabetical order, syllabification, and word stress. Emphasis on reading short, adapted materials. Focus on improving comprehension skills and reading speed. Introduction to summarizing main ideas, identifying word forms, using a dictionary to choose correct meaning, and inferring ideas in a passage.
Emphasis is on reading adapted works, both fiction and non-fiction.
Focus on developing critical reading skills and analyzing short original texts. Introduction to rhetorical patterns in texts, distinguishing fact from opinion in a passage, paraphrasing and summarizing points in a reading, and identifying features of longer works of fiction. Focus on textual analysis and comprehension skills in academic passages. Emphasis is on reading passages from academic texts and a short, unadapted novel. Focus on expanding critical thinking skills introduced in earlier levels, including determining author's point of view and tone, distinguishing fact from opinion, inferring information from textual cues, and predicting possible examination questions about readings.