Reading a Store Flyer
Reading a Store Flyer
In this task, the learner is presented with a flyer from PharmaPlus. The flyer has products under $6.00. The learner is required to show the amount, in bills or coins, that they would give a sales clerk for each item purchased. The learner will also need to estimate change they will receive from the sales clerk. Instructions are to be read to the learner.
ReadingaStoreFlyer2_I_A2.1_B1.1_C1.1.doc — Never downloaded
ReadingaStoreFlyer_I_A2.1_B1.1_C1.1.pdf — Never downloadedA2. 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
B1. Interact with others
Competency B: Communicate Ideas and Information
Task Group B1: Interact with others
Level: 1
At this level, learners: Participate in brief interactions to exchange information with one other person
Performance Descriptors
The learner:
- Conveys information on familiar topics
- Shows an awareness of factors such as social, linguistic, and cultural differences that affect interactions in brief exchanges with others
- Chooses appropriate language in exchanges with clearly defined purposes
- Participates in short, simple exchanges
- Gives short, straightforward instructions or directions
- Speaks or signs clearly in a focused and organized way
- Repeats or questions to confirm understanding
- Uses and interprets non-verbal cues (e.g. body language, facial expressions, gestures)
Task Descriptors
- Scope of task is limited
- Involves one other person
- Is brief
- Addresses a familiar audience
- Contains concrete and familiar content
- Has a highly explicit purpose
- Is informal
Interaction Types:
- Exchange information
- Give instructions
- Provide directions
- State preferences
ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – B1.1
C1. Manage money
Competency C: Understand and Use Numbers
Task Group C1: Manage money
Level: 1
At this level, learners: Compare costs and make simple calculations
Performance Descriptors
The learner:
- Adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides whole numbers and decimals
- Recognizes values in number and word format
- Understands numerical order
- Begins to interpret integers, such as in a negative bank balance
- Identifies and performs required operation
- Interprets and represents costs using monetary symbols and decimals
- Follows apparent steps to reach solutions
- Rounds to the nearest dollar
- 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. grocery store flyer, list)
- Uses whole numbers and/or decimals
- Has a highly explicit purpose
ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – C1.1