Students will be able to identify different reading strategies, as well as improve reading comprehension skills including:

• demonstrating effective reading skills with short reading passages, such as understanding details, identifying topics and paraphrasing;
• demonstrating effective reading skills with longer reading passages, such as understanding details, identifying topics and paraphrasing, and recognizing coherence;
• summarizing skills, such as completing tables and charts, and creating tables and charts.

Students will be able to identify different listening strategies, as well as improve listening comprehension skills including: 

• demonstrating basic comprehension, such as understanding the main idea, key points, structure, purpose, conclusion, important facts and relevant details;

• learning from listening, such as understanding various relationships between ideas (e.g., compare and contrast, cause and effect, agree/disagree, or steps in a process);

• tracing the development of ideas or events throughout the recordings;

• making inferences about an author’s opinion and what is implied in a recording.

Students will be able to identify different speaking strategies, as well as improve speaking skills including: 

• responding in a way that is sustained and sufficient for the task;

• synthesizing and summarizing what they have read and what they have heard in recordings;

• forming their own opinion in response to the information they have read or heard;

• demonstrating effective use of grammar and vocabulary;

• speaking clearly and have a well-paced flow with only minor lapses in their pronunciation;

• developing coherent and well developed responses with details and examples, providing a clear progression of ideas.

Students will be able to identify different writing strategies, as well as improve writing skills including: 

• demonstrating effective use of the necessary writing skills of brainstorming, organizing, and paraphrasing;

• developing writing skills by connecting and supporting ideas;

• improving sentence structure and word choice;

• effectively using self-correction skills.