READING

ABE II: Adult Basic Education

In this program I will use strategies to pronounce and figure out the meaning of words by:

  1)        Recognizing homophones and homographs

 2)        Applying context clues

 3)        Using structural analysis

 I will also apply reading skills to everyday text such by: 

1)                Following multiple step directions

2)                Summarizing the main idea and supporting details

 3)        Identifying the author’s main purpose

 4)        Making predictions about events, actions, behaviors

 5)        Identifying cause and effect relationships

6)                Reading and interpreting charts, graphs, and tables found in community and

workplace text

 7)        Applying skimming and scanning reading strategies to locate information and

determine the main idea

 Finally, I will apply reading skills to interpret literary selections by: 

 1)        Identifying the author’s theme or message and relate them to personal experience

 2)        Recognizing how history and culture are reflected in a reading selection

 When I am able to demonstrate the following skills most of the time, and score between the 4th to 5.9th grade level on the reading skills assessment, I will receive an ABE II Certificate of Achievement in Reading:

 1)                Know and use word families, suffixes, and prefixes to decode unfamiliar words

2)                Use knowledge of antonyms and synonyms, homophones and homographs, and context to determine the meaning of words

3)                Interpret and follow multiple-step directions

4)                Identify the author’s main purpose

5)                Identify cause and effect relationships

6)                Summarize a main idea and supporting details

7)                Scan written and graphic materials to locate items of information

8)                Read and interpret charts, graphs, tables

9)                Skim print and graphic material to determine the main idea

10)            Comprehend the meaning of short stories

11)            Describe the plot, setting, characters, theme in fiction and non-fiction works

12)            Identify how history and/or culture affect a literary selection

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