Below is a suggested sequence of content for Essential Skills – Reading and Writing (ERW210114). This is an example only - teachers will contextualise for their own college/school.

This course is designed for 100 hours of work. Please note that the dates and length of time spent on various units in the following course outline are indicative times only and based on an estimated 5 contact hours per week. This is subject to change in order to achieve flexibility and respond appropriately to college/school circumstances. Course delivery must be flexible in order to meet the needs of a range of learners and to enable them toprogress to TASC level 2 in a timeframe appropriate to their background, skills and knowledge.

This course has been designed to enable learners to achieve reading and writing skills, and usestrategies and practices appropriate for everyday adult settings, including the workplace. Learners willalso gain skills that can be applied to reading and writing for leisure and pleasure.This course requires the learner to read and write routine texts. Routine texts are those that arestraightforward and used in everyday situations. Routine texts may include some unfamiliar content andembedded information.

The suggested topics below are available in the VLE resource for this course.

Term 1: Living Online

Weeks1 – 10Wednesday 3 February – Friday 8 April (Easter 25 – 29 March)

Week / Topic covered / Criteria
Week 1 / Section 1: Travel Planning Online
  • Travel Planning Online: Travel Itineraries
  • Planning a weekend trip to Tasmania
  • Constructing a travel itinerary
/ 2
1, 3, 4
Week 2 /
  • Travel Planning Online: Travel Blogs
  • Features of a blog
  • Create a blog
/ 1
3, 4
Week 3 /
  • Travel Planning Online: Overseas Travel Documents
  • Round the world ticket
  • Passport application
  • Visas, travel warnings and vaccinations
/ 2, 5
2
2
Week 4 / Section 2: Being Cautious Online
  • Being CautiousOnline: Rights and Responsibilities
  • Rights and responsibilities
  • Class discussion
  • Letter to the editor
/ 1, 2
5
1, 3, 4
Week 5 /
  • Being CautiousOnline: Your Digital Footprint and Reputation
  • Your digital footprint and reputation
  • Film review
/ 5
5
Week 6 /
  • Being CautiousOnline: Staying Safe online
  • Advice when buying online
  • Advertisements
  • Spam email fraud
  • Online Scam report
/ 1
1, 3, 4
1, 3, 4
1, 3
Week 7 / Section 3: Shopping Online
  • ShoppingOnline: Comparing products
  • Internet search
  • Constructing an investigative report
/ 1
1
Week 8 /
  • ShoppingOnline: Website Design
  • Features of e-commerce websites
  • Shopping website report
/ 1, 2
3, 4, 5
Week 9 /
  • ShoppingOnline: Advertising online
  • Target audience
  • Advertising techniques
/ 1, 2
1, 2
Week 10 /
  • Analysing advertisements
  • Persuasive language
/ 1, 2, 3, 4
1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Term 2: World of Work

Weeks 1 – 10Tuesday 26 April – Friday 1 July

Week / Topic covered / Criteria
Week 1 / Section 4 – Instructions
  • Instructional text
  • Explanatory text
/ 1, 2
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Week 2 /
  • Instructional presentation
/ 1, 2, 3, 4
Week 3 / Section 5 - Get me a Job
  • What is work? Your dream job.
  • Resume
/ 2, 4
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Week 4 /
  • Cover letter
  • Job application (optional)
/ 2, 3, 4, 5
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Week 5 /
  • Job Interview
/ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Week 6 / Section 6 – On the Job
  • Writing an email
  • Rules to remember
  • Style of language
  • Subject lines, openings and closings on emails
  • Structuring your email
  • Tone of email
/ 2
1
1
3, 4, 5
3, 4, 5
Week 7 /
  • Writing and responding to business complaints
  • When should I complain?
  • Features of a complaint letter
  • Responding to a complaint in writing
/ 2, 3, 4
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
3, 4
Week 8 /
  • Workplace documents
  • Most common forms of workplace documents
  • Incident report
/ 1, 2
1, 2, 3, 4
Week 9 /
  • Forms
  • Log books
/ 1, 2, 3
1, 2, 3
Week 10 /
  • Time sheets
/ 1, 2, 3

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