VU23798 - Engage with texts of limited complexity to participate in the community

Unit code: VU23798 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours
25
Location
Footscray Nicholson
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge to engage with familiar and less familiar texts for community participation purposes. It requires the ability to, identify, scan, read and interpret texts of limited complexity in contexts related to community participation. It is designed for individuals who can read independently in familiar and some less familiar contexts, and who are seeking to engage with texts of greater complexity to further their reading skills in order to engage in the community. Learners at this level work independently and use their own familiar 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:

  • 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
  • techniques to interpret texts to identify their usefulness
  • devices used in texts to achieve purpose and convey information and opinion
  • relationships between source of text and validity of information
  • variations in text types according to audience and purpose
  • distinguishing fact from opinion
  • decoding and meaning making strategies to make sense of texts
  • strategies to interpret texts and identify their usefulness
  • 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

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):

Certificate I in General Education for Adults
22690VIC | Certificate i | Duration:

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