Basic Skills Online - Entry Level 2 - Literacy Standards

Speaking and listening - At this level, adults can:

• listen and respond to spoken language, including straightforward information, short narratives, explanations and instructions.
• speak to communicate information, feelings and opinions on familiar topics.
• engage in discussion with one or more people in a familiar situation to establish shared understanding about familiar topics.

and will be expected to:

• listen for and follow the gist of explanations, instructions and narratives.
• listen for detail in short explanations, instructions and narratives.
• listen for and identify the main points of short explanations or presentations.
• listen to and follow short, straightforward explanations and instructions.
• listen to and identify simply expressed feelings and opinions.
• speak clearly to be heard and understood in straightforward exchanges.
• make requests and ask questions to obtain information in everyday contexts.
• respond to straightforward questions.
• express clearly statements of fact, short explanations, accounts and descriptions.
• ask questions to clarify understanding.
• follow the gist of discussions.
• follow the main points and make appropriate contributions to the discussion.

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

Reading - At this level, adults can:

• read and understand short, straightforward texts on familiar topics.
• read and obtain information from short documents, familiar sources and signs and symbols.

and will be expected to:

• trace and understand the main events of chronological and instructional texts.
• recognise the different purposes of texts at this level.
• identify common sources of information.
• use illustrations and captions to locate information.
• read and understand linking words and adverbials in instructions and directions (eg next, then, right, straight on.)
• read and understand words on forms related to personal information (eg first name, surname, address, postcode, age, date of birth.)
• recognise high frequency words and words with common spelling patterns.
• use phonic and graphic knowledge to decode words.
• use a simplified dictionary to find the meaning of unfamiliar words.
• use initial letters to find and sequence words in alphabetical order.

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

Writing - At this level, adults can:

• write to communicate information with some awareness of the intended audience.

and will be expected to:

• use written words and phrases to record or present information.
• construct simple and compound sentences, using common conjunctions to connect two clauses (eg and, but.)
• use adjectives use punctuation correctly (eg capital letters, full stops and question marks.)
• use a capital letter for proper nouns spell correctly the majority of personal details and familiar common words.
• produce legible text.

in documents such as forms, lists, messages, notes, records, e-mails, simple narratives.

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