Reading Level 1

The course introduces students to functional texts that provide information such as memos, forms, workplace documents, instructions, websites, graphic documents and reference texts. The course will enable students to preview and predict the information in the texts.

SLO’s – Completion of this courses, the student will be able to:

• Read a variety of texts and visuals to identify and interpret useful information. (ABE Interact with the academic content of Reading).
• Make inferences from the text (ABE Interact with the academic content of Reading).
• Identify how text types impacts the message, tone and purpose of the text (ABE Interact with the academic content of Reading).
• Use academic websites to gain information (ABE Interact with the academic content of Reading).
• Recognize the purpose of common workplace documents (ABE Interact with the academic content of Reading).
• Interpret non-literal language (ABE Interact with the academic content of Reading).