Reading
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Reading
This department is NOT just a Developmental Education department — they are here to support students in their gen ed courses too.
While the bulk of their scheduling is made up of RDG 096 (the developmental reading course), they have other offerings!
RDG 120 is a 1-credit elective that is paired with one text-heavy course (for example Psychology, Sociology, History) a student is taking during the semester. The RDG 120 class will introduce valuable strategies to use while working with the paired class readings/texts to complete assignments, read critically, and build confidence in a text-heavy course.
Best of all, RDG 120 is FREE for the first ~15 students this Spring!! This department is 100% interested in designing sections for specific classes and/or disciplines if they get the interest from faculty and students. Currently, a student in any text-heavy course can enroll in any RDG 120 section.
The reading specialist services available in the AAC (LIB first floor) is also open to all JCCC students. They have over 40 hours available each week, both on zoom and in-person. No appointments are needed!
More info: https://www.jccc.edu/student-resources/academic-resource-center/reading-services/
Some things this department can help students with:
- Understand course assignments
- Navigate technology: Canvas, Zoom, working with online text, completing online assignments
- Utilize active learning strategies and build strategic reading and study skills
- Improve comprehension by identifying main ideas, supporting details and patterns of organization and making inferences
- Organize textbook information by using annotation, note-taking, outlining, and mapping
- Read critically by determining fact and opinion, the author’s purpose, tone, and point of view
- Use critical thinking skills while reading
- Interpret graphics such as diagrams, tables, and maps