2021-2022 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Apr 24, 2024  
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ABE 033 ABE Low Intermediate Basic Education-Reading/Writing 3 (1 to 15 credits)



Course Description
Designed for students to learn and/or review intermediate grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, paragraph development and reading comprehension in preparation for passing of the GED exam.

Student Outcomes
1. Writing
W3.1 Determine the purpose and the audience for communicating in writing.
W3.2 Use simple planning strategies to identify and organize a limited number of ideas to support a single purpose (to convey personal experience, meet a specific need, or respond to recent learning), and produce a legible and comprehensible draft.
W3.3 Appropriately use mostly familiar vocabulary (based on personal experience and learning) and basic text structure of simple steps/instructions/commands or a paragraph to convey an ideas with several supporting details/examples reflecting some attention to audience.
W3.4 Use simple revision strategies to monitor effectiveness by re-reading and revising during the writing process and making revisions to a first and final draft based on review and feedback from others. Demonstrate beginning attention to clarity, descriptiveness, personal voice, and appropriateness of text for the intended audience.
W3.5 Make several simple edits of grammar (such as simple tense agreement), spelling, and punctuation (such as periods, capital letters, and some commas), sentence structure (such as compound and come complex sentences), language usage, and text structure using tools such as spelling word lists and simple editing checklists.
2. Reading
R3.1 Decode and recognize most everyday and some unfamiliar and specialized words, and abbreviations in short to medium-length text by drawing on content knowledge and oral vocabulary.
R3.2 demonstrate familiarity with simple, everyday content knowledge and vocabulary.
R3.3 Locate important information in short to medium-length text using some simple strategies.
R3.4 Monitor and enhance comprehension by using a range of simple strategies, such as posing and answering questions, recalling, restating, rephrasing, explaining the content of the text of using simple examples.
R3.5 Actively apply prior knowledge to assist in understanding information in texts.
3. Goal Setting
G1.1 Monitor progress on educational goals as they relate to their roles as students, workers, citizens, and family members.



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