Course Objectives

At the end of this course, you will be able to say:

I can...

Review

Vocabulary strategies (for text completion/sentence equivalence)

Evaluate vocabulary items for synonyms Issue essays--Components of supporting paragraphs

Vocabulary (Text completion) strategies

Reading comprehension strategies

Parts of argument

Reading comp strategy for main and supporting ideas

2-1-1-F 

Understand

RC question types

Main idea/Purpose—create a title/the main idea is/the author’s purpose was

Supporting ideas/Details—according to the author/as stated in the passage

Inferences

Application

Logical structure/Order

Style and tone

What Argument (Critical Reasoning) items measure

Strategies for working through critical reasoning items

Apply skills and practice by

locating and inserting supporting evidence where it should be added within given issue essays with support removed

Reading passages and identifying question types

Writing a 30-min timed analysis of an issue (Lab)

Reading passages and identifying question types

Using vocabulary strategies

Using text completion strategies to sample test items

Identifying the conclusion, premises, and assumptions within a CR prompt

Identifying CR question type

Practicing reading passages and identifying question types