VU23772 - Engage with simple texts for learning purposes

Unit code: VU23772 | Study level: TAFE
25
Footscray Nicholson
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge to engage with simple, familiar and predictable paper and digital texts for learning purposes. It requires the ability to identify, read and interpret information in texts relevant to own learning needs. This unit is designed for learners who are seeking to improve their reading skills in order to access educational participation options. Learners at this level may request support and begin to develop their own support resources.

Assessment

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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:

  • select and use reading strategies to make meaning
  • access and navigate digital texts
  • use digital devices safely
  • use search engines to locate simple information
  • search for information in a digital environment

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • reading strategies to make meaning from texts
  • simple sentences and structures
  • function of conventional sentence punctuation and how it impacts on meaning
  • text types related to learning purposes and their features
  • basic layout conventions of websites and digital texts.

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.

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