Create a Shopping List Within Budget
Create a Shopping List Within Budget
The learner will make a grocery list from flyers to stay within budget.
- Pen/pencil and paper and/or digital device
- Calculator or digital device with claculator function

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: 2
At this level, learners: Use layout to determine where to make entries in simple documents
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
C1. Manage money
Competency C: Understand and Use Numbers
Task Group C1: Manage money
Level: 2
At this level, learners: Make low-level inferences to calculate costs and expenses that may include rates such as taxes and discounts
Performance Descriptors
The learner:
- Calculates using numbers expressed as whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percentages, and integers
- Calculates percentages
- Interprets and applies rates (e.g. $/kg, $/l)
- Chooses and performs required operation(s); may make inferences to identify required operation(s)
- Selects appropriate steps to reach solutions
- Represents costs and rates using monetary symbols, decimals, and percentages
- Makes simple estimates
- Interprets, represents, and converts amounts using whole numbers, decimals, percentages, ratios, and simple, common fractions (e.g. ½, ¼)
- Uses strategies to check accuracy (e.g. estimating, using a calculator, repeating a calculation, using the reverse operation)
Task Descriptors
- Scope of task is clearly defined
- May include unfamiliar elements (e.g. context, content)
- Requires the use of rates, or requires two or more operations, where operations are easily inferred
- Requires up to a few steps to complete
- May be completed in more than one way
- May involve one document, such as a table
- May require converting between whole numbers, fractions, decimals, ratios, and percentages
ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – C1.2