VU23796 - Engage with texts of limited complexity for learning purposes

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:

• establish relevance of information source
• identify credible sources of information
• select and use strategies to make meaning
• access and navigate digital texts
• use digital devices safely
• use search engines to identify information
• search for information in a digital environment

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

• sentence structures including:
  complex and compound sentences
  dependent clauses
• signalling devices such as, although, while, if, while
• representation of an author’s purpose, experiences or opinions in texts
• intended audience and purpose of text
• relationship between source of text and validity of information
• ways in which information can be accessed and represented in a number of ways including in digital information
• decoding and meaning making strategies to comprehend texts
• strategies to interpret texts and identify their usefulness
• draw on prior knowledge to make sense of texts
• different representation of paper based and digital information
• following the left to right, top to bottom orientation of printed texts
• following non-linear digital texts to gain information