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Overview

Framework:
RQF
Level:
Entry Level 1
Unit No:
K/505/6114
Credits:
3
Guided learning hours:
30 hours

Assessment Guidance

This unit maps to the Adult Literacy Core Curriculum in the following areas: Rw/E1.1; Rw/E1.2; Rw/E1.3.

Aim

In this unit, learners will learn how to decode a limited number of familiar words and locate information from simple written sources.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1.

Be able to use different strategies to locate simple information from texts.

Assessment Criteria

  • 1.1
    Read a limited meaningful sight vocabulary of familiar words.

    1.1: Social sight vocabulary; 100 most common words from the Oxford English Corpus; Dolch List.

  • 1.2
    Identify familiar key words in simple written sources.
  • 1.3

    Identify the meaning of simple signs and symbols.

    1.3: Signs and symbols should be commonly occurring and include both typographical and visual (e.g. ampersands, equals, pounds, percentage, basic health and safety signs, directional signs).

  • 1.4
    Use visuals as clues to the meaning of words.
2.

Be able to decode familiar words in order to gain information.

Assessment Criteria

  • 2.1
    Recognise the letters of the alphabet in both upper and lower case.
  • 2.2

    Decode simple regular words.

    LO2: Use phoneme-grapheme correspondence – initial consonant letter sounds; short vowel sounds; initial consonant clusters; final consonant clusters.