Tomas del Rosario College

Capitol Drive, San Jose, Balanga City

Tel (047) 237-3115
Email: tomasdelrosariocollege@yahoo.com
TRC_Academic_Office@yahoo.com

Department: EDUCATION
1st Semester AY 2011-2015

Course Code:
Course Description: Developmental Reading 1
Credit: 3 units

Course Description:
Sharpening the teacher’s reading proficiency in preparation for the
introduction to the nature of the reading process.

Course Objectives:

General Objectives:
1. Ownership of reading as tool for learning.
2. A genuine love for reading as lifelong source of pleasure and profit.

Specific Objectives:
A. Enrichment of reading proficiency through:

1. Mastery of general skills in academic reading

2. Re-acquaintance with the basic elements of literature
3. Honing of critical, creative, and metacognitive reading skills
4. Differentiating efferent from aesthetic reading

B. Comprehensive view of psychology of reading through

1. Mastery of the theories on the nature of reading as complex process

2. Identification of the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that affect reading
performance

Course Outline

Quarter 1 (12 contact hours)

1. Academic reading: skimming, scanning, browsing
2. More on academic reading: note-taking, organizing, outlining, etc.
3. Aid to comprehension: graphic organizers direct reading, SQ3R, etc.
4. Use of reference materials: the dictionary, the encyclopedia, the atlas,
thesaurus, etc.

Vision: “Truth and Goodness in Man and for all Mission: Produce through a responsive curriculum, morally upright,
others through Education” committed and competent graduates capable of meeting the growing
human resources needs in the profession, government, business, industry
and home.
 Tomas del Rosario College
Capitol Drive, San Jose, Balanga City
Tel (047) 237-3115
Email: tomasdelrosariocollege@yahoo.com
TRC_Academic_Office@yahoo.com

5. Expository structures: its elements, linguistic signals, discourse patterns,

lexicon
6. Narrative structures: its elements, story grammar

Quarter 2 (12 contact hours)

1. Efferent reading: reading to learn

2. Types of informational materials and their sources
3. Aesthetic reading: reading for appreciation and enjoyment
4. Reading traditional tales and knowing their patterns and variants
5. Reading the modern short story: its elements (plot: conflict, turning point,
climax, setting, character, themes)
6. Reading a book/movie tie-in: its themes, sub-plots, and characters
7. Poetry as shape, imagery, voice, and experience
8. Reading a play (simple interpretations, creative classroom dramatics)
9. Reading persuasive materials (essays, editorial columns, advertisements)
10. Reading to writing: pattern writing, book reports, journalese

Quarter 3 (12 contact hours)

1. Reading as a neuro-physiological process (the eye, the ear, the brain,

dominance, etc.).
2. Reading as a language process (Halliday, Fries)
3. Reading as cognitive process (Piaget)
4. Reading as skill/skills (Gray/Gates)
5. Reading as a psychosocial process (Erikson, Vygotsky)
6. Reading as development process (Chall)

Quarter 4 (12 contact hours)

1. Intrinsic factors for reading achievement (motivation, intelligence, learning

styles, self-concept, interest, etc)
2. Extrinsic factors for reading achievement (the material and the teacher as x
factor)
3. Self-fulfilling prophecy
4. The Pygmalion effect

Vision: “Truth and Goodness in Man and for all Mission: Produce through a responsive curriculum, morally upright,
others through Education” committed and competent graduates capable of meeting the growing
human resources needs in the profession, government, business, industry
and home.
 Tomas del Rosario College
Capitol Drive, San Jose, Balanga City
Tel (047) 237-3115
Email: tomasdelrosariocollege@yahoo.com
TRC_Academic_Office@yahoo.com

Requirements
1. Review of a content area textbook
2. Structured report on recreational reading
3. Choice of: reviewing a play or a movie based on literature

Noted by: Approved:

IRMA P. RAÑOLA LUISA M. ISIDRO, PhD

Registrar College Dean OIC

Vision: “Truth and Goodness in Man and for all Mission: Produce through a responsive curriculum, morally upright,
others through Education” committed and competent graduates capable of meeting the growing
human resources needs in the profession, government, business, industry
and home.