OPIE D402 - High-Intermediate Reading/Vocabulary

• Student accurately identifies the thesis and rhetorical framework of a 4-8 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 high intermediate level passage.
• Student follows main and supporting ideas of a text by answering questions, recalling/retelling content, explaining time relationships between events, choosing most accurate paraphrase of central idea, and completing a partial outline of the 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 uses the university library to find and borrow leisure reading material and will read and report on a book at level 3-4 from the OPIE leisure reading collection. Student successfully uses an English-English learner dictionary.
• Student will demonstrate increased reading speed and improved comprehension through regular use of individualized reading lab materials.