Reading Flyers – BATA shoes
Reading Flyers – BATA shoes
Learners on the Independence Path will need to read flyers for various reasons.
- Paper and Pen
- Flyer (attached)
- Question Sheets
- Skill building activities are reading for simple comprehension and developing personal opinions from written material
- To decrease the complexity of these tasks you can read the material to the learner and record their responses and adjust the performance descriptors as necessary
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
B2. Write continuous text
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
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