BAS403 — Adult Basic Eeduation
This class for low intermediate readers is to prepare students to take Pre GED clases. Reading activities offered in this classroom will help students increase their reading fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills. Students will read passages in which they must discern between fact and opinion as well as cause and effect. Students will learn multiple ways to find meaning of unfamiliar words. Students will interpret newspaper, magazine articles, and fiction in order to answer literal, evaluative, and inferential questions. As part of their writing activities, students will learn basic rules of grammar, including parts of speech, clauses, sentences, punctuation, subject-verb agreement, pronoun agreement, plurals, verb tense, and verb forms. In mathematics, the class will cover place value, estimation, comparison of numbers, using a calculator, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Intensive instruction will be given in decimals, faractions (including ratios), and/or percents. Geometry topics may be incorporated as contexts for the previously listed operation. The main contextual focus of this class is the workplace. All activities should have a workforce foucs or application, which is communicated to the student.