ELL 7 - ELL Reading Support for Literacy Level

Credits: 1-10
This is a reading class for literacy level ELL students. Students will learn basic reading skills including letter sound recognition, basic vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.

Enrollment Requirement: Placement test and instructor consent.

Course Fee: $10.00

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Improve phonemic awareness and decoding skills.
2. Build basic vocabulary.
3. Read and comprehend learned words in a few simple phrases and basic personal information slowly and with some effort and some errors to independently accomplish simple, well defined, and structured reading activities in a few comfortable and familiar settings. 
4. Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
5. Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
6. Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.                                                                 

The outcomes will be adjusted in depth and intensity depending on the credits for which the classes are offered. More intensity and depth can include: multi-level cohort activities, class projects, guest speakers, field trips, and expanded language development and application in reading.
Program Outcomes
We are using the Career and College Readiness Standards from the National Reporting System. When students are ready to leave our program in level 6, they can do the following:

In Reading

1. Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
2. Summarize
3. Use context to determine meaning
4. Analyze how texts are organized
5. Determine points of view
6. Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
7. Delineate and evaluate arguments
8. Compare and contrast texts
9. Be familiar with affixes and roots
10. Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing

1. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development,organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
2. Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
3. Write arguments with reasons and evidence
4. Write narratives
5. Introduce and develop a topic
6. Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
7. Revise, edit, rewrite
8. Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening

1. Actively participate in conversations
2. Analyze arguments
3. Build on the ideas of others
4. Express opinions clearly and persuasively
5. Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
6. Contribute relevant comments and observations
7. Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
8. Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
9. Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of
grammar:
punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past
perfect , modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice,
compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.