Taking Point Form Notes

Competency A: Find and Use Information

Task Group A1: Read continuous text

Level: 3

At this level, learners: Read longer texts to connect, evaluate, and integrate ideas and information

Performance Descriptors

The learner:

• Integrates several pieces of information from texts
• Manages unfamiliar elements (e.g. vocabulary, context, topic) to complete tasks
• Identifies the purpose and relevance of texts
• Skims to get the gist of longer texts
• Begins to recognize bias and points of view in texts
• Infers meaning which is not explicit in texts
• Compares or contrasts information between two or more texts
• Uses organizational features, such as headings, to locate information
• Follows the main events of descriptive, narrative, informational, and persuasive texts
• Obtains information from detailed reading
• Makes meaning of short, creative texts (e.g. poems, short stories)
• Identifies sources, evaluates and integrates information

Task Descriptors

• Scope of task may not be clearly defined
• May involve more than one text
• Is typically longer than one paragraph
• May include unfamiliar elements (e.g. vocabulary, context, topic)
• May contain specialized vocabulary

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

Examples:
• Newspaper articles
• Textbook entries
• Newsletter articles
• Short creative texts

ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario - A1.3

Competency B: Communicate Ideas and Information
Task Group B2: Write continuous text
Level:2

At this level, learners: Write texts to explain and describe information and ideas

Performance Descriptors

The learner:

• Writes texts to explain or describe
• Conveys intended meaning on familiar topics for a limited range of purposes and audiences
• Begins to sequence writing with some attention to organizing principles (e.g. time, importance)
• Connects ideas using paragraph structure
• Uses a limited range of vocabulary and punctuation appropriate to the task
• Begins to select words and tone appropriate to the task
• Begins to organize writing to communicate effectively

Task Descriptors

• Scope of task is clearly defined
• Content of writing is routine
• Addresses a familiar or unfamiliar audience
• Requires a degree of formality, such as appropriate tone
• Is one paragraph or longer
• Requires organization to support the message (e.g. sentence order, paragraphs)
• May include unfamiliar elements (e.g. vocabulary, context, topic)

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

Examples:

• Emails
• Brief letters
• Notices

ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – B2.2

Competency B: Communicate Ideas and Information
Task Group B3: Complete and create documents
Level: 2
At this level, learners: Create simple documents to sort, display, and organize information

Performance Descriptors

The learner:

• May draw on additional simple sources, such as a list

To complete documents, the learner:

• Uses layout to determine where to make entries
• Begins to make some inferences to decide what information is needed, where and how to enter the information
• Makes entries using a limited range of vocabulary
• Follows instructions on documents

To create documents, the learner:

• Follows conventions to display information in simple documents (e.g. use of font, colour, shading, bulleted lists)
• Sorts entries into categories
• Displays one or two categories of information organized according to content to be presented
• Identifies parts of documents using titles, row and column headings, and labels

Task Indicators

• Scope of task is clearly defined
• Involves one document up to two pages in length
• Has a simple format
• Requires multiple entries
• May contain entry fields that are not clearly labeled
• May include unfamiliar elements (e.g. vocabulary, context, topic)
• Documents at this level may require entering a paragraph or more of text

Examples:

• Forms
• Tables
• Hand-drawn maps
• Floor plans

ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – B3.2