VU22368 - Create simple texts to participate in the community

Unit code: VU22368 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours:
25
Location
Footscray Nicholson
St Albans
Sunshine
Werribee
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge to develop writing skills to create simple, familiar and predictable handwritten and digital text types for community participation purposes. Learners at this level may request support and begin to develop their own support resources.

Assessment

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Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • beginning ability to structure text;
  • consistent use of upper and lower case letters;
  • developing ability to link ideas using simple conjunctive devices such as “and” and “but”;
  • grammatically correct simple sentence structure;
  • use of familiar letter patterns for spelling, and;
  • problem solving skills to identify audience and purpose of paper based and digital texts and use appropriate language.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • stages or processes of writing including planning, drafting and editing, and;
  • punctuation conventions of sentence writing.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Certificate I in General Education for Adults (Introductory)
22476VIC | Certificate i | Duration:

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