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, straightforward texts on
familiar topics
read and obtain information
from short documents, familiar
sources and signs and symbols
in texts such as public signs and
notices, lists, forms, notes,
records, e-mails, simple
narratives, letters and diagrams
Sentence Focus Grammar and punctuation Rs/E2
Skills, knowledge and understanding
Adults should be taught to:
1 read and understand linking words
and adverbials in instructions and
directions (e.g. next, then, right and
straight on)
– understand that these types of word and
phrase: expand the information in a
sentence by providing details about place,
sequence, time; relate one step of the
instructions/directions to another,
enabling the reader to follow the whole
text and complete the task
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3
4
use knowledge of simple sentence
structure and word order to help decipher
unfamiliar words and predict meaning
– understand that sentences follow
grammatical patterns, and certain types of
words are more likely to occur in some
places than others
– understand that word order and the
relationship between words in a sentence
are as important to meaning as the words
themselves
apply own life experience and knowledge
to check out plausible meanings
of a sentence as a whole when
decoding unfamiliar words
– understand that an unknown word must
make sense in the context of the
complete sentence, and that this will rule
out most alternatives
use punctuation and capitalisation to
aid understanding
– understand that different punctuation
marks are used for different purposes and
know their names: full stop, question and
exclamation marks for end of sentence
– understand that this punctuation serves
to help the reader make sense of written
text, and apply this understanding in their
own reading
– understand that all end-of-sentence
markers are followed by an initial capital
in continuous text written in complete
sentences
Example
Use the information in adverbials and
linking words to help follow a sequence of
written instructions or directions.
Make general sense of a simple continuous
text written in sentences, encountered in
daily life, even if they are not able to read
every word.
Check out possible plausible meanings in
their own reading, e.g. in a sentence in a
letter.
Recognise and take account of full stops,
question marks, exclamation marks in their
own reading.