College Reading and Learning Strategies

Welcome to the RDG 090
Course Design Toolkit

Course description: The compentency-based course is designed to improve students' critical reading, thinking and learning strategies. Emphasis is placed on the critical reading skills necessary to understand complex college textbooks: to identify main ideas and supporting details, make inferences, draw conclusions, appreciate figurative language, and analyze and synthsize information. As part of the final evaluation of RDG 090, students must demonstrate competency on a college reading test before enrolling in courses requiring higher order reading skills.

RDG 090 Syllabus Template

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	Students will read as a process.
	Students will analyze and synthesize for accurate comprehension.
	Students will identify and apply critical reading skills to enhance comprehension.
	Students will identify and demonstrate the use of reading/learning strategies.
	Students will employ methods and techniques to build vocabulary to improve understanding of academic language and readings.
	Students will transfer techniques developed in RDG 090 to successful learning in various content areas.

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