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.

Reading is a basic course for English-major students. For the intensive reading aspect, students will follow a syllabus and critically read assigned articles for in-class discussion and other relevant assignments. These articles will be chosen from one or more skills-based books. For the extensive reading aspect, students will be given certain authentic materials.The objective of this course is to build up reading competence by use of the following reading strategies: skimming, scanning, previewing, predicting, picturing, 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.

Intensive reading: Breaking Through College Reading by Brenda Smith & LeeAnn Morries, 9th Ed.
Extensive reading: The Greek Gods by Bernard Evslin, Dorothy Evslin, and Ned Hoopes
Stories from Homer by E. F. Dodd
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom