ASPECTS OF COMMUNICATION

READING LEVEL 1 - SAMPLE ACTIVITIES

Personal(expressing identity)

• Locates particular information of personal relevance from a familiar source, e.g. expiry date on a driving licence, name on shift roster
• Reads a brief personal message, e.g. birthday greeting, SMS texts, emails, e-cards

Cooperative(interacting in groups)

• Recognises own name and personal details, e.g. locates own name on a list of team or class members, on an OHS subcommittee
• Locates and matches pieces of information, e.g. time and place of a union or class meeting on a notice
• Identifies operating hours of local organisations, e.g. library, health centre

Procedural(performing tasks)

• Locates and reads own name, address, phone number on familiar forms, e.g. driver’s licence, Medibank card, pay slip
• Recognises familiar words, phrases, symbols, abbreviations, numerical and number codes in procedural texts such as job tickets, recipes, ATM instructions
• Follows simple written or pictorial instructions, e.g. opening a program on a PC, simple road signs and warnings, emergency stop procedures for machines; warnings such as ‘prohibited area’, ‘wash hands before entering’

Technical (using tools and technology)

• Recognises very short explicit pictorial texts, e.g. recognises safety symbols found on chemical containers
• Locates relevant pictorial instructions accompanying a new piece of technology, e.g. to change battery in mobile phone, to turn on a computer

Systems(interacting in organisations)

• Recognises time, dates and months, e.g. work roster, shifts, RDO, doctor's appointment or interview
• Reads and follows simple, familiar work timetable or schedule of activities specific to own job
• Recognises and knows value of Australian notes and coins, e.g. uses self-serve machines

Public(interacting with the wider community)

• Reads titles and phrases of public importance in immediate local environment, e.g. street names, names of service providers or indigenous place names
• Reads simple diagrams, e.g. hand-drawn map of local area to locate public facilities such as schools, hospitals, bus stops
• Selects items of interest from advertising brochure
• Locates key words in a public notice of immediate interest, e.g. road closure due to road works, opening hours of local swimming pool