Learning Skills Course Information Hybrid Reading Courses
Instructor: Ms. Lindsey • Office: C-102 • (213) 763-3739 • lanemslindsey@yahoo.com
Welcome to the Learning Skills Hybrid Reading Program. For more information about these courses, click on the links below. Go to Learning Skills Pre-Nursing Reading Program for further details about the reading requirements needed for entrance into the Nursing Program.
Reading and Study Improvement:
· Learning Skills 36A: Reading Fundamentals covers basic vocabulary skills and paragraph comprehension.
· Learning Skills 36B: Reading Improvement utilizes the same skills as LS 36A on longer readings from a variety of subjects.  It introduces a six-step method for reading and study.
· Learning Skills 36C: Study Reading adapts the six-step method for textbook reading, using selections from a variety of college textbooks.
Reading for College Success, Level III:
· Learning Skills 67A: Reading for College Success: Critical Thinking is designed to improve critical thinking, inferential reading comprehension and verbal reasoning skills. Strategies and processes will be introduced to help students to employ logical and verbal reasoning to interpret, evaluate, and critically analyze reading material. Students will formulate written explanations to substantiate their responses to reading questions and logic problems.
· Learning Skills 67B: Reading for College Success: Critical Reading is designed to improve critical reading and logical reasoning skills. Students will apply logical reasoning skills to solve analogy, logic problem, and sentence relationship exercises. Students will formulate written explanations to substantiate their responses to reading questions and logic problems.
· Learning Skills 67C: Reading for College Success: Textbook Critical Reading is designed to develop textbook critical reading strategies. Students will analyze textbook selections; formulate objective and essay questions; prepare for tests using underlining, highlighting, and marginal notetaking strategies; construct graphic organizers and flashcards; and organize main ideas and details by utilizing outlining strategies. Students will formulate written explanations to substantiate their responses to reading questions and logic problems.
Study Skills:
· Learning Skills 68: Study Skills covers methods of textbook reading, vocabulary building, notetaking, organization, memorization, test-taking, and time-management.