The document outlines an 8-unit reading skills course covering topics like scanning, skimming, getting the gist, grammar, meaning from context, identifying patterns of organization, intensive reading and extensive reading. The course runs from January 21st to May 17th and covers techniques for improving reading speed and comprehension through strategies like scanning, skimming, identifying main ideas and organizational structures.
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Unit 1 scanning week 1-2 from January 21st to February 1st
1.1 What is scanning?.
1.2 Improving reading speed.
1.3 Why scan?
Unit 2 Skimming week 3-4 from February 4th to February 15th
2.1 What is skimming in reading?
2.2 Differences between skimming and rapid reading
2.3 Skimming techniques and right application.
2.4 Why skim?
2. Unit 3 getting gist week 5-6 from February 18th to March 1st
3.1 how Get the gist
3.2 the strategies to obtain the gist of a paragraph
unit 4 grammar week 7-8 from March 4th to March 15th
4.1 vocabulary and grammar aplication
4.2 grammar in reading context
unit 5 Meaning from context week 9-10 from march 18th to April
5th
5.1 word meaning from context
5.2 the use of context for better understanding
5.3 clues to learn word meaning.
3. Unit 6 Identifying patterns of organization week 11-12 from April 8th
to April 19th
6.1 Principal of organization in reading skill
6.2 summary of a passage.
6.3 Determining the topic main idea, and organizational patterns of
paragraph.
Unit 7 Intensive Reading week 13-14 from April 22nd to may 3rd
7.1 What is intensive reading?
7.2 Types of intensive readings
7.3 What are the examples of intensive reading?
Unit 8 Extensive Reading week 15-16 from may 6th to may 17th
8.1What is the extensive reading?
8.2 Types of extensive reading?
8.3 What are the examples of extensive reading?