Read for Purpose and Meaning

Overview

Framework:
RQF
Level:
Entry Level 2
Unit No:
K/505/4122
Credits:
3
Guided learning hours:
30 hours

Assessment Guidance

This unit maps to the Adult Literacy Core Curriculum in the following areas: Rt/E2.1; Rt/E2.2; Rs/E2.1; Rs/E2.2; Rs/E2.3; Rs/E2.4; Rw/E2.2.

Aim

In this unit, learners will learn how to read short straightforward texts for purpose and meaning and use simple strategies to support understanding.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1

Be able to read straightforward texts.

Assessment Criteria

  • 1.1
    Identify the purposes of simple everyday texts.
  • 1.2
    Follow and understand the main events of short chronological texts.
  • 1.3
    Follow and understand the main steps in short instructional texts.
  • 1.4
    Identify linking words and adverbials in instructions and directions, for example next, then, right and straight on.
2

Be able to use simple reading strategies.

Assessment Criteria

  • 2.1
    Identify punctuation and capital letters to support understanding.
  • 2.2
    Use simple sentence structure and word order to help decipher unfamiliar words and predict meaning.
  • 2.3
    Identify plausible meanings of sentences using context and own experience to predict unknown words.