VU23527 - Read and write straightforward informational texts
Nominal hours
Location
St Albans
Sunshine
Werribee
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
(Corequisite units must be studied concurrently with this unit)
Overview
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required by EAL learners to read and write digital and/or paper-based straightforward informational texts.
The outcomes described in this unit relate to:
- the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF). They contribute directly to the achievement of ACSF indicators of competence for Reading and Writing at Level 3, and
- the ISLPR (International Second Language Proficiency Ratings) descriptors for Reading and Writing. They contribute directly to the achievement of ISLPR Reading 2+ and Writing 2+.This unit applies to EAL learners who need to develop their English language reading and writing skills to engage with everyday informational texts, which can apply to a range of contexts such as social and community life, everyday commerce and recreation, workplaces, and vocational or study-related fields.
Assessment
For Melbourne campuses
Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes & 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:
- read and interpret two informational texts including:
- identifying specific details of each text
- analysing discourse features and conventions of each text
- plan, produce and review two straightforward informational texts with at least one text comprising at least two appropriately structured paragraphs.
Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
- vocabulary and expressions for selected topics and contexts including common collocations and phrasal verbs
- sentence structures for compound and some complex sentences
- verb tenses to indicate a point in time or the time and state of an action or event, such as present perfect continuous and past perfect, present and past simple passive, conditional, for example with, if and unless or imperative
- paragraph structure, such as topic sentence and supporting details
- linking and cohesive devices
- formatting features, such as dot points / numbered points, large print, capital letters or headings
- visuals and symbols which indicate options and requirements
- discourse markers and cohesive devices to structure text, such as addition in addition, cause and effect therefore, as a result, contrast however, sequence following that, time finally
- reading strategies to skim text for main ideas or work out meaning of unknown words from context.
Sociolinguistic and Cultural Knowledge: - registers used in conveying information in different contexts
- conventions of informational texts
- inferred meaning in texts, such as through the use of syntactic, semantic, logical or contextual cues
- tone and intention of writer
- processes of planning, drafting and review.
Required reading
The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.
As part of a course
This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):