ALP READING, (054) is a three hour course for intermediate students who are taking or have already taken Grammar II.  Students who pass Reading I or students who get this placement on the CELT are placed in this course.
 Students read for the main idea, logical conclusions, and inferences.  We place great emphasis on vocabulary development by studying certain prefixes, suffixes, and roots, word families, and word networks.  We also learn how to use and English-English dictionary efficiently, finding information such as whether our noun is count or non-count, whether our verb is transitive or intransitive, how many parts of speech as word forms, how many meanings each part of speech might have, what idioms are formed from this word and what related words are formed.
 Students are also required to to extensive reading.  Students select a novel to read and give a brief oral summary mid-way through it, and then a completed summary and interpretation at the end of term.
 Students in this course must pass the Reading Exit test; therefore, our classroom tests are based on readings similar to those on the Exit test.
 At the end of the term, students earn a grade based on the average of the many reading tests they take (95%) and the grade they earn on the summary of the novel (5%).  Completed homework and classroom participation are expected.


Required texts:  INTERACTIONS:  A READING SKILLS BOOK
                         Kirn and Hartman
                         DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH
                          Longman
                          A novel of your choice