Calculate a Monthly Budget
Calculate a Monthly Budget
The task involves the learner understanding a budget.
- Calculator
- Pen
A1. Read continuous text
Competency A: Find and use Information
Task group A1: Read continuous text
Level: 1
At this level, learners: Read brief texts to locate specific details
Performance Descriptors
(Please note that not all might apply)
The learner:
• Decodes words and makes meaning of sentences in a single text
• Reads short texts to locate a single piece of information
• Follows the sequence of events in straightforward chronological texts
• Follows simple, straightforward instructional texts
• Identifies the main idea in brief texts
• Requires support to identify sources and to evaluate and integrate information
Task Descriptors
(Please note that not all might apply)
• Scope of task is limited
• Involves one text
• Is up to one paragraph in length
• Contains common, familiar vocabulary
• Has a familiar context
• Addresses concrete, day-to-day topics
• Has a highly explicit purpose
Text Types:
Instructional, descriptive, narrative, and brief informational texts
Examples:
• Notes
• Simple directions
• Instructions
• Brief emails
• Simple narratives
ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario - A1.1
A2. Interpret documents
Competency A: Find and Use Information
Task Group A2: Interpret documents
Level: 1
At this level, learners: Interpret very simple documents to locate specific details
Performance Descriptors
The learner:
- Scans to locate specific details
- Interprets brief text and common symbols
- Locates specific details in simple documents, such as labels and signs
- Identifies how lists are organized (e.g. sequential, chronological, alphabetical)
- Requires support to identify sources and to evaluate and integrate information
Task Descriptors
- Scope of task is limited
- Involves one document
- Contains brief text, symbols, or both
- Uses a very simple format
- Contains common, familiar vocabulary
- Has a familiar context
- Addresses concrete, day-to-day topics
- Has a highly explicit purpose
- Documents at this level may contain up to one paragraph of text
Examples:
- Signs
- Labels
- Lists
- Coupons
- Simple forms
ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – A2.1
C1. Manage money
Competency C: Understand and Use Numbers
Task Group C1: Manage money
Level: 1
At this level, learners: Compare costs and make simple calculations
Performance Descriptors
The learner:
- Adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides whole numbers and decimals
- Recognizes values in number and word format
- Understands numerical order
- Begins to interpret integers, such as in a negative bank balance
- Identifies and performs required operation
- Interprets and represents costs using monetary symbols and decimals
- Follows apparent steps to reach solutions
- Rounds to the nearest dollar
- Uses strategies to check accuracy (e.g. estimating, using a calculator, repeating a calculation, using the reverse operation)
Task Descriptors
- Scope of task is limited
- Has a concrete and familiar context
- May require one operation; operation is apparent
- May require the same operation to be performed more than once
- Requires up to a few steps to complete
- Has a set procedure
- May involve one simple document (e.g. grocery store flyer, list)
- Uses whole numbers and/or decimals
- Has a highly explicit purpose
ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – C1.1
C2. Manage time
Competency C: Understand and Use Numbers
Task Group C2: Manage time
Level: 1
At this level, learners: Measure time and make simple comparisons and calculations
Performance Descriptors
The learner:
- Adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides whole numbers and decimals
- Recognizes values in number and word format
- Understands chronological order
- Understands and uses common date formats
- Reads time on analog and digital clocks
- Identifies and performs required operation
- Represents dates and times using standard conventions
- Measures time using common instruments, such as clocks, timers, and stopwatches
- Chooses appropriate units of measurement (e.g. hours, minutes, seconds)
- Interprets and represents time using whole numbers, decimals (e.g. .25, .5), and simple, common fractions (e.g. ½, ¼ hour)
- Follows apparent steps to reach solutions
- Rounds to nearest minute or hour
- Uses strategies to check accuracy (e.g. estimating, using a calculator, repeating a calculation, using the reverse operation)
Task Descriptors
- Scope of task is limited
- Has a concrete and familiar context
- May require one operation; operation is apparent
- May require the same operation to be performed more than once
- Requires up to a few steps to complete
- Has a set procedure
- May involve one simple document (e.g. product label, appointment card)
- Has a highly explicit purpose
- Uses whole numbers and/or simple common fractions or decimals
ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – C2.1