Literacy for QTLS Achieving the Minimum Core

Literacy for QTLS is written specifically with the needs of all those training to teach or currently working in the lifelong learning sector in mind. This highly practical andeasy-to-usetext will help you identify your areas of strength and weakness, develop your knowledge and skills in order to pass the national literacy test and adopt strategies that you can use to support the language and literacy skills of your own learners.Packed with test-your-knowledge questions, examples and recommendations for best practice, this book, closely linked to the QTLS standards, is essential reading for all those needing to ensure that their level of literacy and language is in line with the minimum core requirements.The text isaccompanied by a Companion Website at www.pearsoned.co.uk/hickey, providing an electronic version of the self-audit sections, downloadable templates and additional resources.

1The scale of the need2Skills audit3Reading4 Writing5 Grammar6Punctuation7Spelling8Speaking and listening9 Non-verbal communication10 Factors affecting the acquisition and development of language and literacy11Specific learning difficulties and disabilities12World English and multilingualism 13 Skills auditing vocational and academic subjects14 Adult literacy core curriculum