These Boots Are Made for Working
These Boots Are Made for Working
In this activity, the learner will compare three different work boots and calculate how much each pair will cost with sales tax, and after a $75.00 credit.
- Print out of the task which includes three sample advertisements of work boots
- Pen or pencil
TheseBootsAreMadeforWorking_A_A1.1_A2.1_C1.2_C4.1.docx — Never downloaded
TheseBootsAreMadeforWorking_A_A1.1_A2.1_C1.2_C4.1.pdf — Never downloadedA1. Read continuous text
Competency A: Find and use Information
Task group A1: Read continuous text
Level: 1
At this level, learners: Read brief texts to locate specific details
Performance Descriptors
(Please note that not all might apply)
The learner:
• Decodes words and makes meaning of sentences in a single text
• Reads short texts to locate a single piece of information
• Follows the sequence of events in straightforward chronological texts
• Follows simple, straightforward instructional texts
• Identifies the main idea in brief texts
• Requires support to identify sources and to evaluate and integrate information
Task Descriptors
(Please note that not all might apply)
• Scope of task is limited
• Involves one text
• Is up to one paragraph in length
• Contains common, familiar vocabulary
• Has a familiar context
• Addresses concrete, day-to-day topics
• Has a highly explicit purpose
Text Types:
Instructional, descriptive, narrative, and brief informational texts
Examples:
• Notes
• Simple directions
• Instructions
• Brief emails
• Simple narratives
ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario - A1.1
A2. Interpret documents
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
C1. Manage money
Competency C: Understand and Use Numbers
Task Group C1: Manage money
Level: 2
At this level, learners: Make low-level inferences to calculate costs and expenses that may include rates such as taxes and discounts
Performance Descriptors
The learner:
- Calculates using numbers expressed as whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percentages, and integers
- Calculates percentages
- Interprets and applies rates (e.g. $/kg, $/l)
- Chooses and performs required operation(s); may make inferences to identify required operation(s)
- Selects appropriate steps to reach solutions
- Represents costs and rates using monetary symbols, decimals, and percentages
- Makes simple estimates
- Interprets, represents, and converts amounts using whole numbers, decimals, percentages, ratios, and simple, common fractions (e.g. ½, ¼)
- Uses strategies to check accuracy (e.g. estimating, using a calculator, repeating a calculation, using the reverse operation)
Task Descriptors
- Scope of task is clearly defined
- May include unfamiliar elements (e.g. context, content)
- Requires the use of rates, or requires two or more operations, where operations are easily inferred
- Requires up to a few steps to complete
- May be completed in more than one way
- May involve one document, such as a table
- May require converting between whole numbers, fractions, decimals, ratios, and percentages
ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – C1.2
C4. Manage data
Competency C: Understand and Use Numbers
Task Group C4: Manage data
Level: 1
At this level, learners: Make simple comparisons and calculations
Performance Descriptors
The learner:
- Adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides whole numbers and decimals
- Recognizes values in number and word format
- Identifies and compares quantities of items
- Understands numerical order
- Identifies and performs required operation
- Begins to interpret integers
- Makes simple estimates
- Interprets and represents values using whole numbers, decimals, percentages, and simple, common fractions (e.g. ½, ¼)
- Follows apparent steps to reach solutions
- Interprets simple, common probabilities, such as the chance of precipitation from a weather forecast
- Recognizes simple patterns
- Uses strategies to check accuracy (e.g. estimating, using a calculator, repeating a calculation, using the reverse operation)
Task Descriptors
- Scope of task is limited
- Has a concrete and familiar context
- May require one operation; operation is apparent
- May require the same operation to be performed more than once
- Requires up to a few steps to complete
- Has a set procedure
- May involve one simple document (e.g. list, label)
- Has a highly explicit purpose
- Uses whole numbers and/or simple common fractions or decimals
ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – C4.1