Reading school training courses in Baltimore, MD (public, in-house or online)

Discuss principles of building structures of different types. Learn to develop skills in reading plans and specifications; types of construction; mechanical prints; tenant build-outs and commercial, architectural and structural design plans.

Learn fundamentals necessary to read and understand construction blueprints. Review and discuss drawing development; organization of drawings; and how to read site plans, architectural and mechanical/electrical drawings.

This degree is for students who have completed a four- or five-year craft apprenticeship program in a technical craft area. Students will receive six articulated credit hours for each year of the apprenticeship program, equating 24 credit hours for a four-year program or 30 credit hours for a five-year program. These credits will be awarded after the student has completed two courses toward the degree or certificate at CCBC. Courses may be taken in any sequence as long as prerequisites are met. ...

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This course prepares non-native speakers to understand and respond to college-level material across academic disciplines. The course offers development of critical and inferential reading skills, and practice producing well-developed, logical, and cohesive essays. Students build familiarity with the format and organizational elements of fiction and nonfiction text encountered in academic settings. They synthesize reading and research material and incorporate ideas in their own writing by paraphr...

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In this course students develop their reading comprehension skills with pre-reading strategies, skimming, scanning, identifying main ideas and supporting details, separating fact from opinion, and understanding point of view and tone. Students learn to summarize written material and use context clues to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. They learn to use an English-only dictionary and to expand vocabulary knowledge through the study of word families, roots, and affixes. An introduction...

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