VU23499 - Read and write short, highly familiar factual texts

Unit code: VU23499 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours:
70
Location
Footscray Nicholson
St Albans
Sunshine
Werribee
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required by EAL learners who have little or no formal education to read short, highly familiar, factual digital and/or paper-based texts including directions or instructions, and to copy highly familiar factual information for immediate personal needs.
The outcomes described in this unit relate to:

  • the Australian Core Skill Framework (ACSF). They partly 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 contribute partly 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 short, highly familiar factual text
  • read and follow one short, highly familiar everyday instructional text
  • copy simple information from written texts for one specific task.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • a small number of highly familiar, common high frequency nouns and some formulaic and simple phrases related to immediate personal needs and information requirements such as numbers, dates, times, objects, classroom materials
  • highly familiar adjectives and adverbs to describe objects and follow highly familiar instructions
  • very common high frequency imperatives including irregular and negative forms used in highly familiar written instructions such as Do not enter, Go left
  • high frequency highly familiar connectives such as and, or, to read highly familiar factual texts and follow highly familiar instructions
  • familiar content words in highly familiar written instructions including directional words or phrases
  • common prepositional phrases in highly familiar factual written instructional texts such as Add flour to eggs.
    Sociolinguistic and Cultural Knowledge:
  • copying highly familiar information into appropriate formats
  • use of supporting visual information / diagrams, to support written instructions.
    Numeracy Knowledge
  • highly familiar numeracy concepts such as numbers, time, date, or quantity.

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):

Course in EAL
22637VIC | Non-award course | Duration: 6 months

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