OER Reading 90-115 (Accelerated)

Reading 90-115 at Mt Hood Community College (MHCC) is an accelerated Reading course that combines Reading 90, a 5-credit Reading and Study Skills course, with a Reading 115, a Reading for College Success course. The two courses are combined so that students can move through two required remedial courses and into college-level courses in one term. It has been offered at MHCC as either a face-to-face course, or as an online course for six years. This course is designed to be taught over a 10-week term, with the first five weeks focused on study skills and basic textbook reading, and the last five weeks focused on higher level skills.

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to demonstrate literal comprehension of appropriate materials that will enable them to:

• Accurately answer factual questions about a text.
• Identify both stated and implied main ideas.
• Identify and distinguish among main ideas, major support and minor support.
• Identify transition words.

Demonstrate literal comprehension of appropriate materials that will enable them to:

• Write a simple summary of a text.
• Create an outline, map, or Cornell Notes that distinguishes among main idea, major and minor support of a text.
• Make accurate inferences from a text

Demonstrate interpretive comprehension of appropriate materials that will enable them to:

• Identify and articulate implied main ideas.
• Identify and articulate inferences from texts

Demonstrate the development of vocabulary skills that will enable them to:

• Use context clues to determine unfamiliar word meaning.
• Demonstrate knowledge of word parts, including Greek and Latin roots and affixes

Course Structure and Evaluation

Week by Week Schedule