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CAREER READINESS PREPARATION

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Preparing for the Career Readiness Certificate:

Leveled Instruction & Practice in Three Skill Areas

Locating InformationLevels 3-6

Applied Mathematics

Levels 3-7

Reading for InformationLevels 3-7

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Linking Skills to Occupations

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Signs, directions, safety instructions, bulletin boards, notices, regulations, e-mail, contracts and memos- in today’s workplace, written materials are everywhere.

In a world where we are increasingly expected to coordinate and communicate through written text, employers need to know that employees can read, understand, and use the information communicated in these materials.

Reading for Information

Key Skills for Reading Workplace Documents

Identify main idea and details

Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words

Follow a series of steps

Apply instructions

Reading for Information-page vi

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In today’s workplace, a great deal of information is presented through graphic formats such as tables, graphs, form letters, and invoices.

In many instances you must be able to use multiple graphics such as flowcharts and diagrams, to determine how to perform your job functions.

Employers need to know that employees have the skills needed to locate, understand, synthesize, and use job-related information when it is presented in various graphic formats.

Locating Information

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Key Skills for Reading Workplace Documents with Graphics

Locate information from graphics

Identify trends from graphics

Draw conclusions from graphics

Apply information from graphics

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While the required level of mathematical knowledge needed in the workplace is often basic, the work-based context and application of that knowledge is sometimes more complex.

For example, you might be required to perform a straightforward mathematical task such as giving change for a purchase.

However, you may also need to perform more complex tasks such as finding the percentage of a number or converting units of measurement.

Applied Mathematics

Applied Mathematics-page vi

Key Terms/ Phrases to Determine Mathematical Operation

Addition: total, sum, perimeter, How many or how much?

Subtraction: difference, more, less, How much greater?

Multiplication: total, percent of, area, volume, circumference

Division: average, decimal equivalent, How many sets or groups?

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Consistent Lesson FormatStep-by-step Skill Example followed by a Skill Practice.

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Reading for Information-page 34

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Consistent Lesson FormatTry It Out! provides a guided practice with Remember! noting the foundation skill hints.

Reading for Information-page 35

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Consistent Lesson Format

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Two-step problem solving approach presented in the Plan for Successful Solving

Step 1: Understand the Problem

Plan for Successful Solving

What am I asked to do?

What are the facts?

How do I find the answer?

Is there any unnecessary information?

What prior knowledge will help me?

Step 2: Find and Check Your Answer

Review all answer choices to be sure that the best option is selected. Review original question- are you doing what is asked, does your

answer make sense? Revise your plan if the initial choice is incorrect.

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Consistent Lesson Format

Reading for Information-page 35

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Consistent Lesson Format

Reading for Information-page 42, 251

Performance Assessment at each level with problems similar to those that appear on a Career Readiness Certificate test.

Answer key provides answer justifications with an explanation of why each answer option is either correct or incorrect.

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Locating Information-page 166

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Consistent Lesson Format

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Locating Information-page 167

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Locating Information-page 180, 254

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Applied Mathematics- page 196

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Consistent Lesson Format

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Pre-Assessment- Begin with the Level 3 Performance Assessment to gauge student’s readiness.

If student scores 80% or higher, use the Performance Assessment Tracking Chart to identify specific skills and lessons to assign.

Continue to the next level if a student tests out of the level.

Teacher’s Editions- Assessing Student Learning

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Teacher’s Editions- Assessing Student Learning

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Encourage students to take responsibility for understanding which items they got right or wrong and to reflect on their problem-solving strategies for each item using the Student Self-monitoring Chart.

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Build Background provides information about the skill while Skill Example suggests additional skill modeling.ELL Strategies and Extend Contextual Learning Graphic organizer black line masters

Teacher’s Editions

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