DRE 096 Integrated Reading and Writing (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies:

• Students will demonstrate the use of pre-reading, reading, and post-reading strategies, including using previewing strategies to comprehend texts; activating prior knowledge; identifying text attributes; using context clues; identifying stated main ideas in paragraph-length texts; and making text-to-self connections.
• Students will demonstrate the use of the writing process (prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading) including narrowing the focus of the text, establishing a clear main idea, generating supporting details, and determining appropriate organization.
• Students will apply critical thinking strategies in reading and writing and demonstrate an understanding of technical and academic language, including the difference between formal and informal language.
• Students will demonstrate an understanding of purpose, point of view, and tense.
• Students will demonstrate an understanding of fact and opinion in reading and by writing paragraphs using facts and opinions for support of main ideas.
• Students will recognize inferences in texts and analyze and evaluate graphic materials in a text.
• Students will recognize and compose well-developed, coherent, and unified texts, including writing clear topic sentences and relevant body sentences; demonstrating an understanding of specific and adequate supporting information; and analyzing and evaluating body sentences in texts and student writings for specific and adequate support.
• Students will demonstrate an understanding of coherence through organizational patterns, including employing a variety of organizational patterns to draft texts; and using transitions, key words, and synonyms to connect ideas and achieve coherence in writing.
• Students will apply the conventions of Standard Written English.