What is The Comprehension 10 Pack?
Lowering Recidivism by increasing comprehension skills
Urban Media Literacy would like to help reduce the rates of recidivism by offering our Comprehension 10 Pack online critical thinking course to agencies that work with incarcerated and returning citizens
The Comprehension 10 Pack syllabus is designed to have the students learn fundamental to higher order thinking comprehension skills. It is suggested that learners complete the course in sequence. Urban Media Literacy will supply your learner with accounts to two online learning platforms . All the sections can be completed online via Talent and Vocabulary.Com LMS platforms.
The Comprehension 10-Pack is designed for those incarcerated in state prisons and juvenile justice facilities. The program is designed to improve inmates’ critical thinking skills, which can lead to better decision-making and lower recidivism rates.
The course consists of exercises that are aligned with Common Core learning objectives for English Language Arts for learners between grades 7-12. The program aims to benefit in the following ways:
- Increased understanding of the laws of society
- Improved self-confidence
- Better scores on testing for employment and school entry
- Learning to make decisions not based on emotional state.
- Lower rates of repeating the same offense
- Decreased incarceration costs for local communities and the states.
- Increased participation in other educational programs offered.
- Developing transferable learning skills
- Learning the proper protocols for creating and evaluating a variety of media content
- Increased self-confidence in academic abilities
- Creating enjoyable learning experiences
- Fusing assigned curriculums with developing skills necessary for real world success
- Developing comprehension/critical thinking skills
- Benefits the learners in the classrooms and in the real world.
- Critical thinking helps learners make better decisions when dealing with real life issues.
The program allows returning citizens to work at their own pace and offers them the opportunity to earn certificates upon completion.
Comprehension 10 Pack Syllabus
Goals
- Increase proficiency in areas involving comprehension in writing and reading
- Developing transferable learning skills
- Learning the proper protocols for creating and evaluating a variety of media content
- Increased self confidence in academic abilities-self empowerment
- Creating enjoyable learning experiences
What is The Comprehension 10 Pack?
Many students, learners, and returning citizens do not score as well as they can on important tests due to poor comprehension skills. To comprehend simply means to understand. If you cannot understand what a question is asking you, it will be hard to answer it. One of the obstacles to students learning these skills is students lacking interest in the content used to teach the skills. The Comprehension 10 Pack is an online course that uses content and current events that learners like to discuss orally to build reading and writing skills.
The course syllabus is designed to have the students learn fundamental to higher order thinking comprehension skills. The exercises are easy to understand. The course is composed of 10 sections that are best done in sequence. The assignments can be done at the learner’s pace. When all 10 sections assignments have been completed the learner will receive a certificate of course completion. All the sections can be completed online via Schoology and Vocabulary.com LMS platforms. The course is designed for those who have achieved reading levels above grade 7 or young learners who are advanced.
To Begin-Use Urban Media Literacy provided access codes and register for Comprehension 10 Pack Course on both
Talent and Vocabulary. Com
Course Curriculum
10 Sections to build comprehension skills
Section 1 Increasing Vocabulary
Goals
Developing reading skills and work habits
Learning to understand the importance of vocabulary
Increasing vocabulary skills
Section 2 Reading for enjoyment
Goals
Increase students desire to read independently and better comprehend what is read
Learn note taking skills
Section 3 Reading for work and school
Goals
Learning to decipher texts and written instructions
Building study skills
Section 4 Personal writing
Goals
Learning proper formats for writing essays.
Learning how to elaborate on ideas
Self Empowerment
Section 5 Work Writing
Goals
Creating effective messages
Knowing your audience
Selling yourself
Section 6 Different Mediums
Goals
Learning what the media is and its effects
Understanding the pros and cons of Social Media
“The Medium is the Message”
Section 7 Analyzing Content
Compare and contrast
Section 8 Higher order thinking
Goals
Understanding abstract concepts
Propaganda, rhetoric, and bias
Section 9 Free Style Synthesize/ Mini Research Project
In this section students get to show their mastery of the previous sections by selecting content from any 3 sources that relates to any class work, research, or projects they are currently working on. If learner is not in school the research topic should relate to their career path. Example – Career Path is to become a singer. Any aspect of the music industry is a suitable research topic
Section 10 No Stress Test
Goals
Learning “Best Practices” for test taking
Learning Do’s and don’ts of studying
Reviewing prior comprehension lessons
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Developing transferable learning skills