75861090ESL Pre-Beginning
Course Information
Description
Pre-beginner ESL students develop skills to increase basic English phonics to support reading accuracy and fluency. Students examine the English alphabet, letter sounds, and sight words to acquire essential competencies of reading.
Total Credits
0
Course Competencies
  1. Recognize all 26 lower- and upper-case letters in the English alphabet
    Assessment Strategies
    Written and oral quiz
    Criteria
    Written letters correspond accurately to the spoken sound
    Oral responses accurately interpret the letter
    You meet the level of accuracy specified by the instructor

  2. Identify the different letter sounds such as long and short vowels, single consonants, and digraphs such as sh, ch, th, and ck
    Assessment Strategies
    Oral quiz
    Criteria
    Oral production of long or short vowel sounds meets level of accuracy as specified by the instructor
    Written letter corresponds accurately to the spoken sound

  3. Acquire a bank of high frequency sight words seen in emergent readings with basic English sentence patterns and decodable words.
    Assessment Strategies
    Written product, oral reading, test
    Criteria
    Interpret high frequency sight words
    Spelling test meets the level of accuracy specified by the instructor

  4. Combine individual sounds into words
    Assessment Strategies
    Written product, quiz, manipulatives
    Criteria
    Supply missing letters within words
    Identify individual sounds such as initial, middle, or last sound
    Blend sounds together effectively so word has meaning, and others can interpret