Examples of Critical Reading SLOs:
Students will:
• Identify and distinguish among the thesis, central idea, supporting evidence, key elements,
and relevant and irrelevant details
• Apply new vocabulary and distinguish between subtle differences in meanings of words.
• Distinguish between fact and opinion in various texts
• Clarify facts, evidence, concepts, and other types of support for a position
• recognize, analyze, and synthesize organization of various content information,
• Identify and analyze the structure of arguments
• Analyze, interpret, criticize, and advocate ideas encountered in academic readings
• Produce analytical, critical, and argumentative responses to academic reading