Level 3
Identified Skills : Literacy - Numeracy - Digital Competence - Oral Communication - Civic Participation
Has good command of reading and writing as tools for work, leisure, development and learning
The adult should be able to
- read various types of texts with good fluency and confidence
- write texts of various genres, express himself/herself accurately and in a varied and nuanced vocabulary
- adapt his/her reading and writing to various contexts and needs
- extract, adapt and convey information from various types of sources in a critical way
Level 3 examples of arenas for reading and writing in private and social life, in working life, and in education and training were taken from Competence goals - Read and write (by Vox, Norway)] (page 7).
Competence goals
Develop basic reading and writing strategies
At this level the adult should be able to
- compare relevant experience and preliminary understanding with the content of a topical text
- pose relevant questions to a text
- identify various genres and literary effects
- read sentences and get the implication without focusing too much on individual words
- manage both reading aloud and reading silently
- organise the content of a text in various ways according to purpose
- use various reading techniques: skim, scan or read closely according to purpose
- reflect upon direct and indirect information in a text
Read and understand
At this level the adult should be able to
- read various documents, articles or professional texts and extract the information that is important for a particular purpose
- find specific information from various types of tables, graphs and digital texts
- sum up the main points from a text both during the reading process and afterwards
- understand the purpose of a text, including intentions that have not been clearly expressed
- assess and compare information, ideas and opinions from various sources
- judge whether the information given by one source is relevant and correct in relation to the task in question
- make profitable use of various dictionaries and encyclopaedias
Write and communicate
At this level the adult should be able to
- make a draft of a text
- write clear, detailed texts in connection with his/her professional work and his/her own interests
- write the minutes from a meeting
- write clear and concise instructions and explanations for others
- organise texts with a heading, an introduction and a conclusion
- structure a text chronologically and thematically and make a cohesion between sentences and paragraphs
- write a text of high information value, structure the textual content and argue for something in simple terms
- relate critically to his/her own writing
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