Locate, Read and Prepare a New Recipe
Locate, Read and Prepare a New Recipe
The learner chooses the recipe and then makes the recipe with the tutor/instructor present. This task allows them to decide if it’s from a package or from scratch.
• Kitchen facilities to make the recipe
• Ingredients or package for making the recipe
• The recipe tasks will need to be done in two parts to allow for purchasing of the ingredients
• If the learner searches the internet for recipes Use Digital Technology can be added to the Indicators and descriptors
• Skill building activities: review the Latke Recipe also found in Independence – Level 1
• This activity could also be used for an A3 task by having the learner watch a cooking show or instructional video to get the recipe and observe how it is made
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A1. Read continuous text
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
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
B3. Complete and create documents
Competency B: Communicate Ideas and Information
Task Group B3: Complete and create documents
Level: 1
At this level, learners: Create very simple documents to display and organize a limited amount of information
Performance Descriptors
To complete documents, the learner:
- Makes a direct match between what is requested and what is entered
- Makes entries using familiar vocabulary
To create documents, the learner:
- Follows conventions to display information in lists, labels, simple forms, signs (e.g. images support the message, text is legible)
- Organizes lists to suit purpose (e.g. chronologically, alphabetically, numerically, sequentially)
- Includes titles where required
- Uses labels and headings to organize content
- Presents text and numbers below one or more headings in lists
Task Descriptors
- Scope of task is limited
- Involves one document up to a page in length
- Has a very simple format
- Requires few entries
- Contains clearly labeled entry fields
- Entries require common, familiar vocabulary
- Has a familiar context
- Addresses concrete, day-to-day topics
- Has a highly explicit purpose
- Documents at this level may require entering up to one paragraph of text
Examples:
- Lists
- Labels
- Simple forms
- Cheques
- Signs
ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – B3.1
C3. Use measures
Competency C: Understand and Use Numbers
Task Group C3: Use measures
Level: 1
At this level, learners: Measure and make simple comparisons and calculations
Performance Descriptors
The learner:
- Adds and subtracts whole number measurements
- Recognizes values in number and word format
- Recognizes simple, common shapes (e.g. circle, square, rectangle, triangle)
- Measures distance, length, width, height, weight, liquid volume, angles, and temperature
- Uses common measuring tools, such as rulers, scales, and thermometers
- Understands numerical order
- Makes simple estimates
- Begins to interpret integers (e.g. temperature, elevation)
- Chooses appropriate units of measurement (e.g. centimetres, metres, kilometres)
- Uses common standard units (e.g. metres, inches) and non-standard units (e.g. paces, cupfuls, scoops)
- Identifies and performs required operation
- Interprets and represents measures using whole numbers, decimals, and simple, common fractions (e.g. ½, ¼)
- Interprets and represents measures using symbols and abbreviations (e.g. inches as “, centimetres as cm, pounds as lbs, kilograms as kilos or kg)
- Follows apparent steps to reach solutions
- Rounds to the nearest whole unit (e.g. kilos)
- 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 adding or subtracting measurements; 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
- Uses common units of measurement within the same system
- May involve one simple document, such as an office supply flyer
- 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 – C3.1