Communication Skills Reading Lab
As a part of the ELA Dept.’s Communication Skills Reading Program, the mission of the Communication Skills Reading Lab is to help students enhance and develop the necessary cognitive tools to read, comprehend, and retain the wide variety of college-level materials necessary to succeed in LaGuardia's degree programs, and/or to move on to four-year institutions. We are committed to providing students with the background knowledge and critical reading and thinking skills necessary to become an educated person.
Who can use the Reading Lab?
Located in E-114, the Reading Lab is available to all LaGuardia students. Tutors are available to assist you in developing the necessary skills to succeed in your course, pass your exams, and find continued success in your future courses that may require reading, be it a literary reading or a textbook you need to understand for your courses among others.
The lab staff can provide support for students in three categories of courses:
- 0 credit courses (both developmental or ESL courses),
- 3 credit CSE elective courses (CSE 105, CSE 110, CSE 120, and CSE 150) and
- 3 and 4 credit course for major and elective courses.
What services does the Reading Lab offer?
For more information click here for the Reading Lab’s ePortfolio page.
(Please open up your ePortfolio account for access)
- Make Up sessions are available for students who miss a lab for CSE 095, CSE 099, CSE 111 or ESL 097. There is a one week limit to receive credit.
- Test taking Strategies for additional support in taking the multiple choice reading exam at the end of the semester.
- Reading Strategies and Supported Reading Workshop (SRW) for introducing and supporting various strategies students can use to have better results when they read.
- Summary Tutoring for preparing students to demonstrate an understanding of the texts they read by writing the major points of a text in a paraphrased paragraph.
- Vocabulary Tutoring provides students with opportunities to gain experience using vocabulary acquisition strategies in context.
- Textbook Tutoring is a unique opportunity for students to have support while working through the course texts. Students should bring along their text book and any supplementary materials. Tutors will NOT simply explain the text. The focus will be on using reading strategies to help students become more independent learners.
- Writing Tutoring is an opportunity for CSE students to have support when they revise their summaries or prepare other writing assignments for CSE courses only (095, 099, 105, 110, 111, 120, 150.)
For more information about tutoring availability, students should send an email explaining their request to readinglab@lagcc.cuny.edu containing their name, EMPLID and the course code.
Contact the Reading Lab
Joseph Evering
Reading Lab Coordinator
E114C
718-482-5628
jevering@lagcc.cuny.edu