VU23498 - Read and write short highly familiar messages and forms
Overview
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required by EAL learners to read and write short, highly familiar digital and/or paper-based messages, and to read and complete highly familiar forms for immediate personal needs.
The outcomes described in this unit relate to:
- the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF). They contribute to the achievement of ACSF indicators of competence for Reading and Writing at Pre Level 1 and Level 1, and
- the ISLPR (International Second Language Proficiency Ratings) descriptors for Reading and Writing. They partly contribute to the achievement of Reading 1 and Writing 1.
This unit applies to learners who need to develop basic reading and writing skills in English to satisfy immediate personal needs in familiar highly predictable contexts.
Assessment
For Melbourne campuses
Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes & 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:
- read one simple message in a highly familiar context, which may be in paper-based or in digital format
- write one simple message in a highly familiar context, which may be in paper-based or in digital format
- read simple instructions and write simple personal details on one form, which may be in paper-based or in digital format.
Required reading
The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the VU Polytechnic and/or via the Victoria University Polytechnic e-Learning system.
As part of a course
This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):