Reading & Writing IV

ESL-44 Reading and Writing Level 4 is an upper intermediate level reading course. It seeks to develop students' reading and vocabulary skills and help them continue to hone various reading strategies, such as inference-making, comprehending context clues and summarizing passages. Students are now reading at speeds that allow greater comprehension at the discourse level, and will be introduced to semi-authentic academic texts. Students continue to focus on writing formal essays, but expand their range to explore multiple genres. Students continue to develop sophistication in their sentences, and continue to work on transitions, support, and global-level coherence.