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Table of Contents | Areas of Study | High School credit courses - English - 6 courses

ASEL010 Reading I ( ) -- 6.0 hoursA secondary education competency based course in basic reading skills. Instruction covers vocabulary building and comprehension skills, retaining concepts and organizing facts, identifying main ideas, making judgements, drawing conclusions, and making inferences. Instruction also covers critical reading skills in regard to paragraphs, short stories, and novels. Notes: [ ] IAI:

ASEL011 Reading II ( ) -- 6.0 hoursA secondary education competency based course in basic reading skills. Instruction covers reading rate, vocabulary, and comprehension, reading concepts and organizing facts, understanding the main idea, making judgements, drawing conclusions, and making inferences. Instruction is designed to improve comprehension skills through reading paragraphs, short stories, and novels. A continuation of Reading I. Notes: [ ] IAI:

ASEL030 Grammar / Composition I ( ) -- 6.0 hoursA secondary education competency based course in grammar and composition skills. Instruction covers verbs and subjects, verb tenses and irregular verbs, direct objects indirect objects, predicate nouns and predicate adjectives, and adjectives and adverbs. Instruction also covers compound and complex sentence structure and a review of capitalization and punctuation. The course concludes with instruction covering paragraph composition including narrative, descriptive, informative, and persuasive paragraphs. Notes: [ ] IAI:

ASEL031 Composition II ( ) -- 6.0 hoursA secondary education competency based course in composition skills. Instruction covers observation and perceptions, creative writing, the process of writing, research, organization, introductions, drafts, revisions, proofreading, precision, expository writing, and persuasion. Notes: [ ] IAI:

ASEL040 Business Communication ( ) -- 6.0 hoursA secondary education competency based course in business communication skills. Instruction covers communication as a process, listening, interpersonal communication, and group communication. Study also covers the writing process as it applies to business communication, revising and proofreading, business forms, business letters, intra-office communication, and formal report writing. A survey of the communication technologies currently in use is covered as well. Notes: [ ] IAI:

ASEL041 Contemporary Literature ( ) -- 6.0 hoursA secondary education competency based course in Contemporary Literature instruction covers a variety of literary forms including poetry, short stories, plays, and novels. Notes: [ ] IAI:

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