Student Learning Outcomes

• 1. Students will be able to explain their own schema for approaching expository text.
• 2. Students will be able to use structural organization to explain expository text.
• 3. Students will be able to use strategies appropriate to expository text.
• 4. Students will be able to recognize connections among ideas in an expository text.
• 5. Students will be able to question expository text at a variety of comprehension levels.
• 6. Students will be able to demonstrate awareness of demands for reading expository text.
• LAC students will increase their confidence level as students.
• Faculty will examine and determine consistent and effective approaches to teaching Word Concept Mapping to READ 80 students.
• 70% of students will demonstrate the effectiveness of their chosen vocabulary strategy by accurately using their word in context.
• 60% of students completing READ 80 will be able to explain their vocabulary strategy use for a given narrative and a given expository excerpt as measured by a rubric constructed by reading faculty as a “meets standard” level in all areas measured.
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