ESOL
Adult Goal 5 (continued): Learners will develop strategies for reading English.

OBJECTIVES EXAMPLES
Objective B: Learners will become familiar with the reading materials of everyday life to meet personal needs and interests.
  • Identify, recognize, and extract information from advertisements, signs, schedules, forms, memos, letters, etc.
  • Use telephone directory, dictionaries, and other reference materials.
  • Identify and organize personal records pertaining to issues such as immigration, health, school, and public assistance, etc.
  • Use maps, manuals, graphs, and charts.
  • Read and discuss simple materials such as receipts, advertisements, coupons, flyers, labels, bills, schedules, and newspaper headlines.
Objective C: Learners will read for various purposes including leisure time enjoyment and to meet vocational needs.
  • Read to enrich vocabulary.
  • Read newspapers, magazines, and books.
  • Choose from high interest, easy-to-read fact and fiction materials.
  • Use various vocational resources, i.e., job announcements, classified advertisements, civil service information, employment and training flyers, etc.
  • Gather information from written sources and reference materials, i.e., citizenship preparation, health, employment, etc.
  • Read to participate in a discussion and share views.
  • Read to interpret and analyze fiction and non- fiction.
  • Expand understanding of idiomatic forms of English.

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