The assignments in this course are openly licensed, and are available as-is, or can be modified to suit your students’ needs. Answer keys are available to faculty who adopt Waymaker, OHM, or Candela courses with paid support from Lumen Learning. This approach helps us protect the academic integrity of these materials by ensuring they are shared only with authorized and institution-affiliated faculty and staff.
If you import this course into your learning management system (Blackboard, Canvas, etc.), the assignments will automatically be loaded into the assignment tool.
Basic Reading and Writing includes a series of customizable, scaffolded assignments that build up to four final projects:
- Success Skills Journal Project: aligns with Success Skills module
- Reading Journal Project: aligns with Critical Reading module
- Personal Analysis Essay: aligns with Writing Process module
- Personal Analysis Essay Revision: aligns with Research Process module
Each of these projects includes an overview and/or a final-draft-submission assignment page with a suggested rubric. Each project also has several smaller associated assignments, one per outcome of the module. The latter are intended to be scaffolded tasks to help the students create the final draft in stages.
All of the assignments can be previewed by clicking on the links in the table, below. As with all other aspects of this course, they are designed to be starting points toward adaptation, NOT a prescriptive set of activities that must be taught in exactly this way. Feel free to use the assignments as-is, change them, or remove the ones you don’t want.
What About Grammar?
The grammar module doesn’t have a project associated with it currently. However, it offers extensive practice tasks inside the module itself. The “Try It” pages could be adapted to work as homework or in-class assignments, if desired.