OPIE D500 - Advanced CORE Skills

• Student accurately produces target structures in controlled activities: active/passive, complementation, subordinate and reduced clauses, time/tense and verb pattersn, noun/pronoun, article/determiner, modification & relationship patterns.
• Student appropriately communicates relationships among pieces of information in extended discourse, i.e. time sequences, cause/effect, condition, contrast, coordination, concession, description, exemplification, and parts of a series.
• Student comprehends overall organization and main ideas of an authentic academic reading passage, minor points, and supporting details; student distinguishes fact from opinion and explicirt from implicit informations, recognizes author’s purpose.
• Student demonstrates comprehension of target vocabulary by identifying/producing synonyms or definitions, using the vocabulary approriately, and responding correctly to comprehension questions. Student effectively uses an English-English dictionary.
• Student identifies main ideas from a reading selection whether stated explicitly or not by answering questions, recalling/retelling content, explaining time relationships between events, and choosing most accurate paraphrase of central idea.
• Student outlines and summarizes a passage that has been surveyed, read, and discussed.
• Student uses Alden Library to borrow and read material from levels 4 - 5 of the OPIE leisure reading collection and demonstrates familiarity with the library’s periodicals and reference collections.
• With guidance from instructor, feedback on drafts, and opportunities for revision and editing, student writes expository essays of at least 5 paragraphs (400 - 600 words) and paragraph-length summarties of academic and non-academic texts.