Basic Reading (Period 4)
Course Description
Basic Reading is one of the alternate curriculum courses that will help students become productive, independent adults by improving functional skills in the domains of communications, self-care/independent living, motor skills/mobility, vocational, social/emotional and recreation/leisure. Alternate curriculum courses align functional skills with standards-based core curriculum using a subset of the California standards in English/language arts, mathematics, science, and history/social science.
Basic Reading emphasizes the continued development and practical application of basic reading and communication skills. Focus is on the use of reading as it relates to functioning independently and effectively on a day-to-day basis in the community in which the student lives. Students enter into and move through the standards at an individual pace. Students with disabilities who scored at the Below Basic or Far Below basic level on the California Standards Test in English may take this evidence-based intervention in addition to a core English class.
Basic Reading emphasizes the continued development and practical application of basic reading and communication skills. Focus is on the use of reading as it relates to functioning independently and effectively on a day-to-day basis in the community in which the student lives. Students enter into and move through the standards at an individual pace. Students with disabilities who scored at the Below Basic or Far Below basic level on the California Standards Test in English may take this evidence-based intervention in addition to a core English class.