Academic
Reading & Writing

Beginning reading helps students to develop basic fluency in reading and text processing skills, while beginning writing focuses on learning grammatical structures and using this knowledge within the writing context.

 

Advancing to intermediate reading, students will develop, broaden, and practice vocabulary in context. The skills of prediction,  comprehension of main ideas, details, and  inferences are emphasized at this level. Writing, at the intermediate level develops skills needed to produce coherent essays in American English. Focus is on pre-writing activities, revising, editing, rhetorical formats, sentence structure, and grammar.

Advanced reading develops strategies that help the reader interact with texts and construct meaning. Advanced thinking skills are developed through inference, interpretation, evaluation and analysis. There is continued focus on  vocabulary development and essay organization.