BASIC COURSE INFORMATION
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Department/ Subject Area ENG
Course Number 027
Disciplines ENG-English
Proposal Type Course Revision (SLO/Textbook)
Division Library, Learning Resources, and Language Arts Division
Cross Listing Courses
Course Title Rapid Reading
Transcript Title Rapid Reading
Course Description This course is designed for students who wish to assure themselves of a reading ability that will meet the demands of college and the professions. (CSU)
Community Service No
Proposed For Associate Degree
Revision
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Course Description
Lecture Hrs: 2.00 - 2.00
Lab Hrs: 0 - 0
Student Unit Hrs: 2.00 - 2.00
Faculty Lecture Units: 2.00
Faculty Lab Units: 0
Field Trips Not Required
Grade Options B: A-F or P/NP
Transfer/Degree Applicability Associate Degree & Transfer
Non-Credit Options
Repeated NO
Repeat Count
Repeat Frequency
Repeat Period
Repeat Units
Repeat Rationale
Challenged NO
Rationale The course is an improvement-based course so a comparison of pre-test and post-test scores measure growth for credit.
Fee Amount 0.00
Comparable Course Information
Comparable Course Information Community College Course
El Camino College
English 7
Catalog Year: 2005-6 Page: 115
URL:
This course increases reading speed and flexibility while it improves comprehension and critical thinking ability. Systematic processes for logically and efficiently analyzing text are emphasized. In addition, study skills, skimming and scanning techniques, and vocabulary development are included.

CSU
CSU Sacramento
LS 005 LS 060
Catalog Year: Spring Page: 2006
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LS 005. Reading and Vocabulary Development. Individual and small-group instruction to improve basic reading and study skills. Includes reading comprehension, reading rate improvement, text processing techniques and vocabulary expansion. Note: May be repeated. Graded Credit/No Credit. 2 units. Note: May utilize computers. Prerequisite: Score of 36-42 on the ELM Test. Graded Credit/No Credit. 4 units. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LS 060. Reading for Speed and Efficiency. Strategies and techniques to promote greater reading efficiency and flexibility and increase reading speed. Drills to develop rate and comprehension as well as supplementary practice in the LSC reading lab. Note: Utilizes computers. Graded Credit/No Credit. 1 unit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LS 060M. Reading for Speed and Efficiency -- Multilingual Students. Strategies and techniques to promote greater reading efficiency and flexibility as well as to increase reading speed for college-level multilingual readers. Classroom instruction includes drills to develop rate and comprehension as well as supplementary practice in the LSC reading lab. Note: Utilizes computers. Graded Credit/No Credit. 1 unit.
Course Goals
Course Goals General Goals: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Develop capacities and habits which lead to reading more rapidly, given particular reading purposes and difficulties in material.
2. Develop comprehension skills that result in more critical and perceptive reading, and greater recall of what is read.
3. Develop a stronger reading vocabulary which underlies both rate and comprehension.
4. Develop a greater appreciation for reading and literature, resulting in more and better reading.
Course Objectives
Course Objectives Specific Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. 1. Analyze one's own reading characteristics and adjust those elements that interfere with speed. 2. Analyze one's own reading characteristics and adjust those elements that interfere wtih comprehension. 3. Correctly identify the physical elements which affect the ability to read rapidly. 4. Demonstrate the ability to employ the technical elements of rapid and efficient reading by adjusting physical elements to improve one's reading efficiency. 5. Apply these elements to a variety of reading materials. 6. Demonstrate an ability to acquire and process a reading vocabulary.
Course Outcomes
Course Outcomes
  1. Outcome:Upon successful completion of the course the student will increase his reading rate, which includes both speed and comprehension, by 100%. Upon successful completion of the course, the student will increase his reading vocabulary by 50%.
    Assessment:The student's reading rate will be assessed by comparing a pre-test with a post test. The student's reading vocabulary will be assessed by comparing his/her pre-test with a post test.
Course Outline
Outline Text
  1. The physiological aspects of reading
    1. eye physiology and health
    2. eye movement and fixation
    3. eye span
    4. vocabularies
    5. texts
    6. degrees of reading passage difficulty
  2. Types of reading and purposes
  3. Types of reading matter and approaches to reading
    1. newspapers
    2. textbooks
    3. business manuals and reports
    4. electronic
  4. Reading rates
    1. grade level
    2. vocabulary
    3. syntax
    4. calculating rate
  5. Barriers to efficient reading and methods of elimination
    1. subvocalization
    2. vocalizing
    3. re-reading regressions
    4. poor concentration
    5. word reading
    6. inadequate vocabulary
    7. insufficient practice
  6. Types of comprehension affected by material
  7. Types of literature and rate adjustment
  8. Reading comprehension strategies to use for print material
    1. SQ3R
    2. sentence meaning-elements of sentence
    3. paragraph elements
    4. syntax and comprehension
    5. finger pacing
    6. the "S" and other strategies
  9. Summarizing content of the comprehended material
  10. Application of the comprehended material to personal experience to aid recall
  11. Application of expanded focus to course work or business
  12. Application of fixation exercises
Course Assignments
Course Assignments Reading
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Assignments: A self-selected 250 page fiction
  1. While applying the techniques learned in the course, read the novel of your choice for speed and comprehension.

Writing
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Assignments:
  1. Write a book report on the novel read, and indicate the methods and strategies used. Provide a structural analysis of the novel or write a character analysis of a significant character in the work.
Course Methods of Evaluation
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Course Methods of Evaluation A student's evaluation will be based on a required final examination and multiple measures of performance including critical thinking. These methods may include, but are not limited to the following.
Students will be graded by examinations which can include reading for speed and comprehension, recognizing vocabulary, establishing thesis statements for articles, writing essay questions on techniques and other assignments as established by the instructor. Examinations will include a midterm and final.
Course Methods of Instruction
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Methods Lecture
Other Methods
Course Distance Education
Delivery Methods
Other Methods
Quality Assurance
Evaluation Method
Additional Resources
Distance Ed - Contact Types
Distance Ed - Contact Types
Course Textbooks
Textbooks Berg, Howard & Marcus Conyers. Speed Reading the Easy Way. 1 Barrons Educational Series, Inc , 2001
Moidel, Steve. Speed Reading. 2 Barrons Educational Series, inc , 1
Funk. THirty Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary. Revised Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster , 1971
Manuals
Periodicals
Course Supplies
Course Supplies
Course Resources
Course Resources Learning Resources
Optional Text: Current support adequate
Resources:
Computer Resources
Optional Text: Use computer software as available. And others as available.
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Disabled Student Programs and Services
Optional Text: current support is adequate.
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Other Resources
Optional Text: None
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Entry Skills
Entry Skills Reading courses
Course Requisites
Course Requisites Requisite Type: Corequisites
Sub Area Course #: READING-091A
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General Education Requirements
Proposed For Categories
 
Transfer Types Course can be transferred to CSU
Course cannot be transferred to UC
Course Codes
CB00 State ID CCC000367708
SAM Code (CB09) E = Not Occupational
TOP Code (CB03) 1520.00 - Reading
Course Credit Status (CB04) Credit - Degree Applicable
Coop Educational Code N - N = Not Coop Education
Coop Work Code (CB10) Y - Y = Not Applicable
CAN Code (CB14)
Course Completion Assessment Level None
Instructional Code M - Intermediate
Classification Codes (CB11) A - Liberal Arts
Print Catalog YES
Print Class Schedule YES
Independent Studies NO
Open Entry NO
Work Experience NO
Special Topics NO
Appointment YES
Contract Course NO
Basic Skills (CB08) N Not Basic Skills
Organizational Unit Library, Learning Resources, & Language Arts Div
Prior Skills (CB21) Y = Not applicable
Originator Diane Oren
Previous Course ENG 027 Rapid Reading
Proposal Type Course Revision (SLO/Textbook)
Course Status Pending
Admin Dates
Board of Trustees 03/21/2006
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