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

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The Adult Literacy
Core Curriculum
At this level,
adults can
read and understand
short texts with repeated
language patterns on familiar
topics
read and obtain information
from common signs and symbols
in texts such as public signs and
notices, lists, forms, records,
simple narratives
Text Focus Reading comprehension Rt/E1
Skills, knowledge and understanding
Adults should be taught to:
1 follow a short narrative on a familiar
topic or experience
– know that text on a page goes from left to
right and from top to bottom and be able to
track a simple text as they read it aloud for
themselves
– know and use a range of text-level
strategies to get at meaning: their own
background knowledge of content, the
context of the text as a whole,
presentational devices
– know that it is not always necessary to
read every word in order to comprehend or
gain information from a text
– understand that texts can be sources of
information and enjoyment
– know some basic metalanguage that
distinguishes written text from spoken texts,
e.g. text, page, format, layout, print, image,
caption, line, title, sentence, word, letter
2
recognise the different purposes of
texts at this level
– understand that different types of text will
look different and that the format can often
help identify the purpose of texts
– know that symbols without words have
meaning and understand the meaning of
common signs and symbols
Skills, knowledge and understanding
Adults should be taught to:
1 read and recognise simple sentence
structures
– know that language is rule governed and
understand that word order affects meaning
– use implicit knowledge of language rules to
predict meaning and check for sense
– understand the concept of a sentence
– know the name and understand the function
of a full stop and an initial capital letter in a
sentence and apply this knowledge to help
with reading
– understand that not all texts consist of
whole sentences
– know that, as well as marking a new
sentence, capital letters are used for names
and places and for the personal pronoun ‘I’
Example
Sentence Focus Grammar and punctuation Rs/E1
Read their own composition, which someone
else has written down.
Predict a text’s likely subject matter from
information on the title page, or the
headline of a newspaper article, and judge
if it will be of use or interest to themselves.
Recognise the purpose of simple texts
encountered in daily life, e.g. a greetings
card, an advert, a notice, an appointment
card, a shopping list, a road sign.
Recognise and understand the signs for No
Smoking, Ladies, Gents, EXIT, ENTRANCE,
Bus Stop.
Example
Read simple sentences and check for sense,
e.g.
My name is Maria. I have two children.
Point the spray away from your face. Now
press the top.