Lire un horaire pour trouver de l’information

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

Competency B: Communicate Ideas and Information
Task Group B2: Write continuous text
Level: 1
At this level, learners: Write brief texts to convey simple ideas and factual information

Performance Descriptors

The learner:

• Writes simple texts to request, remind, or inform
• Conveys simple ideas and factual information
• Demonstrates a limited understanding of sequence
• Uses sentence structure, upper and lower case, and basic punctuation
• Uses highly familiar vocabulary

Task Descriptors

• Scope of task is limited
• Addresses concrete, day-to-day topics
• Addresses a small, familiar audience
• Is informal
• Is up to a paragraph in length
• Has a familiar context
• Has a highly explicit purpose

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

Examples:

• Notes
• Brief emails
• Directions
• Instructions
• Text messages

ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – B2.1

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