Adult Literacy Core Curriculum - Nationally developed Skills for Life ...

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The Adult Literacy
Core Curriculum
At this level,
adults can
write to communicate
information with some awareness
of the intended audience
in documents such as forms, lists,
messages, notes, records,
e-mails, simple narratives
Text Focus Writing composition Wt/E2
Skills, knowledge and understanding
Adults should be taught to:
1 use written words and phrases to
record or present information
– understand the concept of ‘fitness for
purpose’ in composition – that the writer
selects the best organisation and style for
the context, audience and purpose,
e.g. continuous text/chart/numbered points
Skills, knowledge and understanding
Adults should be taught to:
1 construct simple and compound
sentences, using common
conjunctions to connect two clauses
(e.g. as, and, but)
– understand that simple sentences can be
combined to make compound sentences by
using conjunctions
– understand that, if a compound sentence
has too many bits added on, the reader will
not be able to follow the sense
– know some common conjunctions e.g. and,
but, or, as
Example
Sentence Focus Grammar and punctuation Ws/E2
2
use adjectives
– understand that adjectives extend the
information in sentences, by providing
some detail about a noun
– understand that adjectives help the writer
to describe people, feelings, places,
situations, objects in more detail
– understand that the choice of adjectives
can often convey a writer’s attitude
– know and use the term adjective
Compose and write some short texts for
different audiences in their own daily life,
e.g. an e-mail message to a teacher; an
absence note to a child’s teacher; a diary
entry, or a personal reading record; a chart to
record when their child has been given
medicine.
Example
Compose a letter to a friend or family
member, writing in complete sentences and
using a variety of sentence patterns.
Write a short description of a favourite place
for someone who has not been there.