The Circle of Learning

Examples of applying this learning outcome outside the learning environment:
Family	Community	Work
Compare your household's meals with Canada's Food Guide, in order to judge whether or not you are preparing healthy meals for your loved ones.	Keep bulletins and newsletters from friendship centres, doctors' offices, faith communities, or band offices, to read for practice in the future.	Read lunch product labels to check for ingredients that may be harmful to a co-worker with food allergies.

Learners will choose, monitor, and adjust reading strategies as needed.

Discuss and identify purposes for reading.
Choose appropriate reading strategies.
- Identify prior knowledge and experience that will help to understand what is written.
- Predict what the reading selection is going to be about.
- Participate in pre- and post-reading discussion.
Monitor and adjust reading strategies as needed.
- Ask questions while reading to increase comprehension.
- Adjust reading rate or re-read to increase comprehension.
- Practise visualization or drawing to construct and confirm meaning from text.
Find the meanings of new words ina beginner's dictionary.
Scan for specific information in a simple text with clear layout.
Find, compare, and contrast two specific pieces of information in simple texts.

Examples of applying this learning outcome outside the learning environment
Family	Community	Work
Read two editorials in a local newspaper. Choose one that you either agree or disagree with. Discuss your view with other adults in your home.	Use a sample restaurant menu as a guide for creating a menu that contains your best friend's favourite foods.	Read a set of instructions at work. Ask yourself questions about why the instructions are organized the way they are.