Book or Movie Review & Report C

Competency A: Find and Use Information

Task Group A1: Read continuous text

Level: 3

At this level, learners: Read longer texts to connect, evaluate, and integrate ideas and information

Performance Descriptors

The learner:

• Integrates several pieces of information from texts
• Manages unfamiliar elements (e.g. vocabulary, context, topic) to complete tasks
• Identifies the purpose and relevance of texts
• Skims to get the gist of longer texts
• Begins to recognize bias and points of view in texts
• Infers meaning which is not explicit in texts
• Compares or contrasts information between two or more texts
• Uses organizational features, such as headings, to locate information
• Follows the main events of descriptive, narrative, informational, and persuasive texts
• Obtains information from detailed reading
• Makes meaning of short, creative texts (e.g. poems, short stories)
• Identifies sources, evaluates and integrates information

Task Descriptors

• Scope of task may not be clearly defined
• May involve more than one text
• Is typically longer than one paragraph
• May include unfamiliar elements (e.g. vocabulary, context, topic)
• May contain specialized vocabulary

Text types:
instructional, descriptive, narrative, informational, and persuasive texts

Examples:
• Newspaper articles
• Textbook entries
• Newsletter articles
• Short creative texts

ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario - A1.3

Competency A: Find and Use Information
Task Group A2: Interpret documents
Level: 1

At this level, learners: Interpret very simple documents to locate specific details

Performance Descriptors

The learner:

• Scans to locate specific details
• Interprets brief text and common symbols
• Locates specific details in simple documents, such as labels and signs
• Identifies how lists are organized (e.g. sequential, chronological, alphabetical)
• Requires support to identify sources and to evaluate and integrate information

Task Descriptors

• Scope of task is limited
• Involves one document
• Contains brief text, symbols, or both
• Uses a very simple format
• Contains common, familiar vocabulary
• Has a familiar context
• Addresses concrete, day-to-day topics
• Has a highly explicit purpose
• Documents at this level may contain up to one paragraph of text

Examples:

• Signs
• Labels
• Lists
• Coupons
• Simple forms

ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – A2.1

Competency A: Find and Use Information
Task Group A3: Extract information from films, broadcasts and presentations
The tasks in this task group are not rated for complexity

ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – A3

Competency B: Communicate Ideas and Information
Task Group B2: Write continuous text
Level: 3

At this level, learners: Write longer texts to present information, ideas, and opinions

Performance Descriptors

The learner:

• Writes texts to present information, summarize, express opinions, present arguments, convey ideas, or persuade
• Manages unfamiliar elements (e.g. vocabulary, context, topic) to complete tasks
• Selects and uses vocabulary, tone, and structure appropriate to the task
• Organizes and sequences writing to communicate effectively
• Uses a variety of vocabulary, structures, and approaches to convey main ideas with supporting details

Task Descriptors

• Scope of task may not be clearly defined
• Content of writing may be non-routine
• Addresses a familiar and unfamiliar audience
• Uses conventions of formality, such as tone, appropriate to the occasion, intent, and content
• Is up to a few pages long
• Requires organization to support the message (e.g. paragraphs, headings, sub-headings)
• May include unfamiliar elements (e.g. vocabulary, context, topic)
• May contain specialized vocabulary

Text types:
instructional, descriptive, narrative, informational, and persuasive texts

Examples:

• Letters
• Reports
• Essays

ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – B2.3

Competency B: Communicate Ideas and Information
Task Group B3: Complete and create documents
Level: 1

At this level, learners: Make straightforward entries to complete very simple documents

Performance Descriptors

To complete documents, the learner:

• Makes a direct match between what is requested and what is entered
• Makes entries using familiar vocabulary

To create documents, the learner:

• Follows conventions to display information in lists, labels, simple forms, signs (e.g. images support the message, text is legible)
• Organizes lists to suit purpose (e.g. chronologically, alphabetically, numerically, sequentially)
• Includes titles where required
• Uses labels and headings to organize content
• Presents text and numbers below one or more headings in lists

Task Descriptors

• Scope of task is limited
• Involves one document up to a page in length
• Has a very simple format
• Requires few entries
• Contains clearly labeled entry fields
• Entries require common, familiar vocabulary
• Has a familiar context
• Addresses concrete, day-to-day topics
• Has a highly explicit purpose
• Documents at this level may require entering up to one paragraph of text

Examples:

• Lists
• Labels
• Simple forms
• Cheques
• Signs

ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – B3.1

Competency D: Use Digital Technology
Level: 1
At this level, learners: Perform simple digital tasks according to a set procedure

Performance Descriptors
The learner:

• Follows simple prompts
• Follows apparent steps to complete tasks
• Interprets brief text and icons
• Locates specific functions and information
• Requires support to identify sources and to evaluate and integrate information
• Begins to perform simple searches (e.g. Internet, software help menu)

Task Descriptors

• Scope of task is limited
• Contains common, familiar vocabulary
• Has a familiar context
• Requires up to a few steps to complete
• Requires the use of a limited range of features and options
• Has a set procedure
• Has a highly explicit purpose
• Uses a very simple format
• Contains brief text, icons, or both
• Text and icons required to complete tasks are apparent
• Contains little or no distracting information
• Interface offers very few options

ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – D.1