Guided Reading is a first-year required course. It aims to provide students with basic reading skills and is based on the idea that students become good readers by reading. Students learn to become better readers through reading intensively and extensively. Students learn to build up reading competence by using the following reading strategies: skimming, scanning, previewing, predicting, visualizing, relating, monitoring, recalling, guessing vocabulary from context clues, recognizing word parts, main ideas vs. minor details, summarizing, outlining, examining organizational patterns, making inferences, synthesizing information, distinguishing facts from opinions, and analytical reasoning. Students also read longer novels as part of the course.

Guided Reading is based of the idea that students become good readers by reading. The objective of the course is to build up reading competence by use of the following reading strategies: Skimming, scanning, previewing, predicting, visualizing, relating, monitoring, recalling, guessing vocabulary from context clues, recognizing word parts, main ideas vs. minor details, summarizing, outlining, examining organizational patterns, making inferences, synthesizing information, distinguishing facts from opinions, and analytical reasoning.

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