75861090 ESL 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 (Course Outcomes) 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 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 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 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