College & Career Reading Course
Instructor: Dr. Roth
In the class of College & Career Reading the students will increase their vocabulary and reading
comprehension skills. Within the Washington Technology College & Career Reading Course students
will acquire new vocabulary, read aloud with their peers, take margin notes, write summaries, and
demonstrate their increased comprehension and competency through Accuplacer practices. This
Washington Technology College & Career Reading Course uses the Accuplacer, a diagnostic
assessment, paired with proven remediation techniques designed to enhance college preparedness
and student success. A score of 78 exemplifies proficiency on the Accuplacer.
In this course we will focus on Common Core and Accuplacer Benchmarks.
Specifically:
Passage-based reading: main idea
Passage-based reading: supporting detail
Sentence relationships
Passage-based reading: inference
Passage-based reading: author’s purpose/rhetorical strategies
Sentence Skills: agreement, modifiers, diction/logic, sentence structure and sentence
boundaries
Identifying students’ academic strengths and weaknesses in preparation for college is more critical
than ever. Providing them with the tools needed to improve their skills is the next step to academic
success and increased persistence. Preparing students to advance a level or pass directly into collegelevel course work means saving time, tuition dollars and financial aid.
Our students will have 2-3 opportunities to take the Accuplacer at Washington throughout the year as
provided by the Saint Paul College and Century College. A score of 78-120 demonstrates proficiency
and places the student into the college level English course. A score of 0-77 will place the student in
remedial reading courses before being allowed to register for English courses at a Minnesota two-year
college.
When the student achieves a score of 78 on the Accuplacer s/he will be allowed to exit the Washington
Technology College & Career Reading Course to take another elective course.