VU22588 - Read and write short basic messages and forms

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 and knowledge:

• a small number of basic, common high frequency words and some formulaic phrases related to immediate personal needs to read and write messages and forms;
• a small number of simple adjectives and adverbs to describe objects, places, people and situations in messages;
• simple time modifiers, such as today, tomorrow, later in basic messages;
• the alphabet and common sound units (phonemes and their graphemes);
• simple modal can used in basic messages;
• a limited number of very common high frequency basic tense forms;
• a limited number of question forms;
• high frequency basic connectives, such as and to read and write basic forms and messages, such as ‘name and address’;
• basic short sentence structure (subject-verb-object);
• basic prepositional phrases in messages and forms;
• connection between familiar words and pictures/signs;
• basic conventions in messages;
• basic conventions in forms;
• two and three digit numbers, such as one, three, four, and;
• basic time, such as 2:30, dates.