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ELC 501
1) Interpreting the meaning of words
-Define meanings of words using the dictionary
-Analyse word structure
-Use contextual clues

2) Identifying main ideas and supporting details in texts

-Determine the topic of a paragraph
-Identify the stated main ideas and supporting details in texts
-Identify types of supporting details in texts
-Formulate the implied main ideas of texts

3) Identifying the logical reasoning (inductive and deductive reasoning) and

assumptions used in texts
-Identify inductive and deductive reasoning used in texts
-Identify the underlying assumptions in texts

4) Determining author?s purpose, tone, point of view (argument), intended audience

and issue involved in an argument
- Determine the issue in a given argument
- Identify author's purpose for writing the text
- Determine author's tone from the language used in the text
- Determine author's point of view or position in the argument
- Determine author's intended audience from the given argument

5) Identifying and applying critical reading skills in reasoning through inferencing,

drawing conclusions and analysing language when explaining and evaluating an
argument
-Make inferences and draw conclusions
-Recognise and apply critical reading skills
-Analyse the language for author?s bias
-Analyse and evaluate the arguments in texts