Reading

📚 English Reading Course Overview

Purpose:
To improve students’ reading comprehension skills in English by exploring various text types, expanding vocabulary, enhancing critical thinking, and developing strategies for effective reading.

Goals:

• Understand main ideas and supporting details

• Infer meaning from context

• Recognize text structures and genres

• Build academic and general vocabulary

• Improve reading speed and fluency

• Analyze and discuss texts critically

📝 Course Content Breakdown

1. Reading Skills & Strategies

• Skimming and scanning

• Predicting content from titles/headings

• Identifying main ideas and supporting details

• Making inferences and drawing conclusions

• Understanding cause and effect, comparison, contrast

• Summarizing texts

2. Vocabulary Development

• Context clues and word analysis (prefixes, suffixes, roots)

• Academic word lists (e.g., AWL)

• Synonyms, antonyms, collocations

• Idiomatic expressions and figurative language

3. Text Types and Genres

• Narrative texts – short stories, novels, biographies

• Expository texts – articles, reports, essays

• Argumentative texts – opinion pieces, editorials

• Descriptive texts – travel writing, character descriptions

• Functional texts – instructions, advertisements, brochures

4. Fluency Practice

• Timed readings

• Repeated reading exercises

• Paired reading or group discussions

5. Critical Reading & Analysis

• Identifying author’s tone and purpose

• Evaluating arguments and evidence

• Recognizing bias and perspective

• Responding to and questioning texts

6. Assessments & Projects

• Quizzes on comprehension and vocabulary

• Reading journals and reflections

• Group presentations on selected readings

• Final reading project (e.g., book report or article analysis)