Reading SLO’s

Students looking at books

READ 100 COURSE SLO'S

  • Demonstrate techniques to better retain and comprehend reading material

  • Recognize the need for speed reading and how to benefit from it

  • Apply efficient strategies for effectively reading web-based material

  • Replace poor reading habits with new and improved reading habits

 

READ 101 COURSE SLO'S

  • Develop a personalized set of study and learning strategies to achieve academic success in college

  • Describe vital campus resources and explain how these Cerritos College resources can aid in student success

  • Identify essential college success factors that aid in college completion, persistence, task planning, responsibility and control

  • Identify the elements in main ideas, supporting details, and central point in readings from various disciplines

  • Recognize the central point of multiple paragraph reading selections

 

  • Identify types of relationships between sentences in paragraphs
  • Use critical reading strategies to distinguish between fact and opinion, inference, purpose and tone, and argument of multiple paragraph reading selections

 

READ 102 COURSE SLO's 

  • Find main ideas, summarize, and draw conclusions from major course content 

  • Demonstrate mastery of core essential words and content area vocabulary through the study of student's major terminology and high frequency word lists

  • Distinguish between fact and opinion in college-level reading texts 

  • Apply metacognition strategies before, during, and after reading 

  • Recognize, analyze, and synthesize organization of various content information, especially in student's major content area

 

READ 103 COURSE SLO'S

  • Identify and analyze the structure of arguments

  • Clarify facts, evidence, concepts, and other types of support for a position

  • Demonstrate the ability to analyze, interpret, criticize, and advocate ideas encountered in academic readings

  • Write analytical, critical, and argumentative responses to academic readings

  • Employ the writing process to understand and complete writing tasks