ESL  II: an intermediate English Course  designed to help students develop fluency in speaking, reading and writing English.

Prerequisite-Student must have scored Intermediate on TELPAS Reading or Level E-Mastery on IDEA-OLPTest

Course Description- 2 class periods

The course provides instruction and practice in developing students’ ability to express complex ideas, to produce main ideas and supporting ideas, and to organize their ideas based on the purposes and functions. The course focuses on  the writing process, emphasizing development of thought in essays of greater length and complexity. Helps students improve their reading comprehension and vocabulary development. Improves students' reading proficiency to a level which would allow students to succeed in high school.  Emphasizes applying and synthesizing ideas. Includes ways to detect organization, make inferences, draw conclusions, evaluate, generalizations, summarize, recognize differences between facts and opinions, and other advanced comprehension strategies  including  library skills.

Course Objectives/Educational Outcome
To develop a faster reading rate with better comprehension and retention of information in increasingly complex academic readings, and to develop increased comprehension of complex syntax, lexicon and idioms by giving the student an opportunity to practice and refine the skills presented and reviewed in ESL 1  thus preparing the student for greater oral,literate and written fluency and facility in higher skilled reading and writing.