This planner is designed to assist the instructor in monitoring learner progress.  It may be used to record achievement of skills and notes regarding the contexts in which they were achieved, the theme where the skill was addressed, assignments given, levels of mastery, and so on.

	Communications Skills:	Notes:
	Reading
	Read with understanding for a variety of purposes, using a variety of texts.
	Create and maintain a reading log.
	Set and monitor learning goals for reading.
	Read for personal enrichment and maintain a reflective journal.
	Read to improve community membership.
	Read to improve employability.
	Read to meet requirements of further studies.
	Recognize that reading is a process of constructing meaning between self and text.
	Interpret information literally.
	Make inferences by using prior knowledge and synthesizing information.
	Analyse selections to determine author’s audience, purpose, bias, and/or point of view.
	Analyse propaganda techniques.
	Apply a variety of reading strategies.
	Use strategies to understand the meaning of words.
	Use strategies to increase comprehension.
	Use critical reading strategies.
	Apply study skills and strategies.
	Read and integrate information from several sources.
	Use standard reference materials to locate information.
	Analyse and evaluate sources for accuracy, relevance, and importance.
	Examine sources with diverse perspectives.
	Summarize and synthesize information from at least 3 or 4 different sources.
	Interpret common graphics embedded in text.
	Demonstrate reading strategies and new knowledge, thoughts, or feelings gained from reading.
	Analyse through a response journal.
	Demonstrate knowledge and skills acquired from community-based reading materials.
	Demonstrate knowledge and skills acquired from employment-based reading materials.
	Demonstrate acquired knowledge and skills related to further studies.
	Identify effective reading strategies.
	Review learning goals for reading.
	Writing
	Identify a variety of purposes, audiences, and formats for writing.
	Identify different purposes and audiences for writing.
	Identify writing formats and standards related to purpose and audience.
	Describe different strategies and approaches to writing for different purposes.
	Set and monitor learning goals for writing.
	Adapt and prepare a writing process that is appropriate for the purpose of a particular writing task.
	Choose, from a variety of pre-writing and planning activities, that process most appropriate for the writing task.
	Draft ideas, opinions, feelings, and thoughts.
	Revise rough draft to refine ideas.
	Proofread, edit, and polish by using the tools and rules of standard English.
	Prepare a final copy of the writing task that meets format requirements.
	Use a variety of writing strategies.
	Connect prior knowledge to new information.
	Select graphic organizers appropriate for the purpose of writing.
	Clarify and improve readability appropriate for the purpose of writing.
	Summarize to understand and retain information.
	Utilize a variety of writing strategies to write on demand.
	Continue to monitor progress in applying strategies and approaches that fit the purpose of writing.
	Integrate information from a variety of sources to write for inquiry or research.
	Combine resource information with own ideas, thoughts, and/or feelings.
	Write a two-page (minimum), multi-paragraph essay that demonstrates research skills.
	Incorporate paraphrased researched material into own writing.
	Use transitions and synonyms for coherence, clarity, and to improve readability.
	Write for a variety of purposes and audiences.
	Write a multi-paragraph descriptive passage.
	Write a multi-paragraph expository passage.
	Complete three different types of multi-step forms.
	Write three different types of letters.
	Write a three-paragraph (minimum), persuasive or opinion-based review on a book or a film.
	Write a one-page, multi-paragraph workplace incident report.
	Share, present, or publish preferred pieces with a planned audience.
	Review learning goals for writing.
	Speaking
	Speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
	Identify a variety of purposes for speaking.
	Speak to clarify and extend thinking.
	Speak to express understanding.
	Speak to share thoughts, opinions, and feelings.
	Speak to build relevant and practical relationships.
	Recognize that speaking is a process as well as a tool for communicating, thinking, and learning.
	Manage the discrete elements of speaking.
	Apply strategies to enhance comprehensibility.
	Set and monitor learning goals for speaking.
	Practise appropriate behaviours of effective speakers and complete a variety of speaking activities.
	Identify effective practices for a variety of speaking occasions.
	Interview and be interviewed by others.
	Express own response to an event, an experience, or a piece of literature.
	Speak to narrate, to describe, to inform, to persuade, and to instruct.
	Review learning goals for speaking.
	Listening
	Identify a variety of purposes for listening.
	Listen for personal enrichment.
	Listen to learn and to understand.
	Listen to  build relevant relationships.
	Set and monitor learning goals for listening.
	Recognize that listening is an active process of constructing meaning.
	Prepare to listen.
	Clarify ideas and key messages by making personal connections.
	Interpret and summarize information heard.
	Analyse and evaluate information heard.
	Respond appropriately to information heard.
	Demonstrate appropriate behaviours of effective listeners while completing a variety of listening activities.
	Listen attentively and actively.
	Respond personally.
	Respond critically.
	Respond empathetically.
	Follow multi-step oral directions and instructions to recall main points and supporting details.
	Review learning goals for listening.