Basic Skills for Reading and Writing 2024 Rivera

Upon completion of all course Units, at an elementary/beginner level, you are expected to be able to…
– Put into practice the reading strategies introduced during the course, namely: previewing, predicting, skimming and scanning, to read elementary/beginner level texts.
– Analyze vocabulary in context to infer meaning and/or use online/paper dictionaries to work out unknown words found in elementary/beginner level texts.
– Classify different words into the correct part of speech, according to their function in the sentence.
– Identify the parts of a simple sentence, i.e. Subject & Predicate, differentiating between sentences and sentence-fragments.
– Write correct simple sentences about topics which are familiar to the student.
– Recognize the constituting elements of a good paragraph: topic sentence, supporting sentences and concluding sentence, both when reading and producing an elementary/beginner level text.
– Recognize the organization patterns of three different text types: narrative descriptions, sequencing and opinion paragraphs.
– Identify purpose, audience, main ideas, arguments/supporting details (distinguishing between facts and opinions) when reading elementary/beginner level texts.
– Engage in the writing process to plan and produce effective and coherent paragraphs of the types described in g) (including a topic sentence, supporting sentences and a concluding sentence) about topics which are familiar to the student.

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