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
straightforward texts of varying
length on a variety of topics
accurately and independently
read and obtain information
from different sources
in reports, instructional,
explanatory and persuasive texts
Text Focus Reading comprehension Rt/L1
Skills, knowledge and understanding
Adults should be taught to:
4 use organisational and structural
features to locate information
(e.g. contents, index, menus,
subheadings, paragraphs)
– understand that different kinds of text have
different structural and organisational
features, e.g. contents, index, menus,
chapters, sections, ‘pages'/layers in hypertext
– understand that different kinds of text require
different methods of navigation,
e.g. encyclopaedia in book form, links in
hypertext
5
use different reading strategies to find
and obtain information
– understand that there are different ways of
reading for different purposes
– understand that skimming is for getting
general gist and overall impression;
scanning is for locating information
– understand that specific information is
obtained through detailed reading
Skills, knowledge and understanding
Adults should be taught to:
1 use implicit and explicit grammatical
knowledge (e.g. of different sentence
forms, types of word, verb tense, word
order) along with own knowledge and
experience to predict meaning, try out
plausible meanings, and to read and
check for sense
– understand that knowledge of sentence
patterns and word order can help to predict
unknown words and get meaning from text
– understand that some sentence structures
and types of word will occur more often in
some types of text than others
– understand that grammatical and semantic
clues can be used alongside whole-text and
word-level clues to make sense of
individual words and of complete
sentences
– understand the terms tense, negative,
adverb, pronoun, phrase
See also in the key skills: Communication key skills level 1
Part A: In reading and obtaining information . . .
Part B: C1.2
Example
Sentence Focus Grammar and punctuation Rs/L1
Find weather forecast in a newspaper, on
teletext, on a web site.
Find out specific information from a
timetable.
Example
Read with understanding a variety of
straightforward continuous texts
encountered in their own life, e.g. a letter
from their child's school, an insurance
policy renewal.