VU23779 - Create simple texts to participate in the community

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

• use information to produce texts
• review and amend own writing
• select audience and purpose of texts and use appropriate language and structure suitable to the text type
• use digital devices safely
• search for information in a digital environment
• select and use appropriate digital applications to produce texts related to community participation
• use appropriate layout conventions to produce digital texts
• apply a limited number of digital netiquette conventions

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

• stages or processes of writing including planning, drafting and editing
• simple punctuation conventions of sentence writing
• simple sentence structure consisting of one or two clauses
• simple verb tenses and routine word order patterns related to text type
• upper and lower case letters and their functions
• structure of text related to text type
• simple conjunctive devices to link ideas such as “and” and “but”
• familiar letter patterns for spelling
• simple adjectives, pronouns and prepositions related to content of texts.