Basic Skills Online - Entry Level 1 - Literacy Standards

Speaking and listening - At this level, an adult can:

• listen and respond to spoken language, including simple narratives, statements, questions and single-step instructions.
• speak to communicate basic information, feelings and opinions on familiar topics.
• engage in discussion with another person in a familiar situation about familiar topics.

and will be expected to:

• listen for the gist of short explanations
• listen for detail using keywords to extract some specific information
• follow single-step instructions in a familiar context, asking for instructions to be repeated if necessary
• listen and respond to requests for personal information
• speak clearly to be heard and understood in simple exchanges
• make requests using appropriate terms
• ask questions to obtain specific information
• make statements of fact clearly
• speak and listen in simple exchanges and everyday contexts

in simple and familiar formal exchanges connected with education, training, work and social roles.

Reading - At this level, an adult can:

• read and understand short texts with repeated language patterns on familiar topics.
• read and obtain information from common signs and symbols.

and will be expected to:

• follow a short narrative on a familiar topic or experience
• recognise the different purposes of texts at this level
• possess a limited, meaningful sight vocabulary of words, signs and symbols
• decode simple, regular words
• recognise the letters of the alphabet in both upper and lower case

in texts such as public signs and notices, lists, forms, notes, records, simple narratives.

Writing - At this level, an adult can:

• write to communicate information to an intended audience.

and will be expected to:

• use written words and phrases to record or present information
• construct a simple sentence
• punctuate a simple sentence with a capital letter and a full stop
• use a capital letter for personal pronoun 'I'
• spell correctly some personal keywords and familiar words
• write the letters of the alphabet using upper and lower case

in documents such as forms, lists, messages, notes, records.

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