OPIE D302 - Intermediate Reading/Vocabulary

• Student accurately guesses the thesis and rhetorical framework of a 4-5 paragraph text by skimming the passage and scans a passage quickly to locate answers to a set of pre-reading questions, and takes and uses notes to later state those answers.
• Student demonstrates s/he has learned targeted basic vocabulary by giving synonyms or definitions and using the vocabulary in an appropriate context. Student determines meaning of new words using context clues and word analysis.
• Student distinguishes fact from opinion and distinguishes between explicit and implicit information of a carefully studied passage.
• Student follows main and supporting ideas by answering questions, recalling / retelling content, explaining time relationships between events, choosing the most accurate paraphrase of central idea, and completing a partial outline of a text.
• Student produces simple oral paraphrases of information from a passage and begins to produce oral summaries of assigned passages and pleasure reading material.
• Student will use the university library to find and borrow leisure reading material and will read and report on a book at level 2-3 from the OPIE leisure reading collection.