LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: Developmental Reading

Testing & Education Reference Center Database

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The Testing & Education Reference Center database has the following topics for developmental reading and writing skills practice. The database allows students to access interactive tutorials and quizzes. Students can create a free account to save their progress and receive quiz grades.

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Reading Comprehension: • Analyzing Arguments • Author Point of View • Comparing and Contrasting • Conflict • Finding Supporting Details • Historical Context • Identifying Cause and Effect • Identifying Literary Elements • Identifying Main Idea • Identifying Organization and Transition • Identifying Relevant and Supporting Details • Identifying Unfamiliar Words and Word Meanings • Inferring and Drawing Conclusions • Literary Language • Literary Terms • Main Ideas and Supporting Material • Making Inferences • Plot • Point of View • Quantitative Information • Reading Actively • Reading Comprehension Strategies • Sentence Relationships • Setting • Signal Words • Strategies for Reading and Understanding Passages • Text-Based Conclusions • Understanding Difficult Text • Understanding the Author's Tone • Understanding the Author's Viewpoint • Using Elements of Text • Visual Media • Words in Context

Sentence Skills: • Adjectives and Adverbs • Agreement • Ambiguous Pronouns • Analyzing Structure • Apostrophes • Avoiding Common Errors of Spelling, Grammar, and Usage • Building Your Vocabulary • Clauses: Independent, Dependent • Common Sentence Mistakes • Comparisons • Connection Words • Correcting Run-on Sentences • Effective Style • Frequently Confused Words • Modifiers • Noun Agreement • Organization • Parallelism • Prefixes and suffixes • Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement • Pronouns • Pronouns, Nouns, and Verbs • Punctuation • Reconstructing Sentences • Sentence Enders • Sentence Fragments • Sentence Improvements • Sentence Types • Spelling and Capitalization • Style • Subject-Verb Agreement • The Parts of a Sentence • Using Modifiers • Verb Tenses • Word Roots

Writing: • Avoiding the Common Errors • Effective Style in Essays • Essay Writing • Essay Writing Method • Essay Writing: Putting It All Together • Essay Writing: The Five-Step Method • Organizing and Developing Your Ideas • Persuasive Writing • Writing Skills

See more developmental reading content including, PowerPoints, readings, activities, and rubrics.

Other Open Materials

Open Textbooks

Developmental Reading Text from Lumen
The Word on College Reading and Writing
The text is organized into two major parts. Part 1 is titled “Working with Texts” and emphasizes building strong reading skills and how to work with texts that you need to use in completing college reading and writing assignments. Part 2, titled “Writing,” is all about, well, writing. This half of the text covers a variety of topics including determining the audience and purpose for your writing assignments, getting started, drafting, working with sources, revising, and more.

Find supplemental resources for this open textbook at : https://theword4instructors.wordpress.com/
Writing Commons
Welcome to Writing Commons, the open-education home for writers. Our mission is to help college students improve their writing, research, and critical thinking. We publish a variety of webtexts on writing pedagogy. Major topics include Academic Writing, Information Literacy, Evidence and Documentation, Research Methods & Methodologies, Style, New Media Communication, Professional and Technical Communication, and Creative Writing. Writing Commons also publishes a monthly newsletter, unCommon News.

Open Courses

Developmental Reading and Writing from SUNY
SUNY OER Services offers template courses that can serve as starting points for your own development. You can mix, match, and adapt anything from the courses below quite easily.

These courses are delivered via the Lumen Learning platform, and can be integrated into your LMS (Blackboard, Canvas, Moodle) quite easily.
Skills Commons
The US Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program has created a free and open online library called SkillsCommons containing free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development. The Open Educational Resources (OER) are produced by community colleges across the nation and can be found, reused, revised, retained, redistributed and remixed by individuals, institutions, and industry.
Pre-College English
Modules available through Google Drive.

COETC funds were used for curricular redesign with a focus on bridging the gap between existing student skills and industry/workforce needs. CCCS and individual colleges developed material to help student support services and faculty to implement the curriculum redesign. The following courses were developed at colleges around the country using these grant funds: