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Competency A: Find and Use Information

Task Group A1: Read continuous text

Level: 2

At this level, learners: Read texts to locate and connect ideas and information

Performance Descriptors

The learner:
•    Makes connections between sentences and between paragraphs in a single text
•    Scans text to locate information
•    Locates multiple pieces of information in simple texts
•    Reads more complex texts to locate a single piece of information
•    Makes low-level inferences
•    Follows the main events of descriptive, narrative, and informational texts
•    Obtains information from detailed reading
•    Begins to identify sources and evaluate information

Task Descriptors

•    Scope of task is clearly defined
•    Involves one text
•    Is one paragraph or longer
•    May include unfamiliar elements (e.g. vocabulary, context, topic)

Text types:
instructional, descriptive, narrative, and informational texts

Examples:     

• Letters
• Emails
• Notices

ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario - A1.2

Competency B: Communicate Ideas and Information
Task Group B3: Complete and create documents
Level: 3
At this level, learners: Create more complex documents to sort, display, and organize information

Performance Descriptors
The learner:

• Draws from multiple sources as required (e.g. other documents and texts)
• Manages unfamiliar elements (e.g. vocabulary, context, topic) to complete the task

To complete documents, the learner:

• Uses layout to determine where to make entries
• Makes inferences to decide what, where, and how to enter information

To create documents, the learner:

• Follows conventions to display information in more complex documents (e.g. use of abbreviations, symbols)
• Sorts entries into categories and subcategories
• Displays many categories of information
• Organizes information in a variety of ways
• Identifies parts of documents using titles, row and column headings, sub-headings, and labels

Task Descriptors

• Scope of task may not be clearly defined
• May involve more than one document; documents can vary in length
• Uses a somewhat complex format
• Requires multiple entries
• Contains entry fields that are not clearly labeled
• Contains sub-headings or subparts
• May include unfamiliar elements (e.g. vocabulary, context, topic)
• May contain specialized vocabulary
• Documents at this level may require entering a paragraph or more of text

Examples:

• Forms
• Tables
• Timelines
• Flow charts

ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – B3.3