Essential Skills Manual - Automotive Service Technician

ESSENTIAL SKILLS TECHNICAL READING

GUIDELINES

Automotive Service Technician

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Non-contextualized Resources:

ƒ Shape Up Your Reading
ƒ Navigating Texts and Documents in Technical Training
ƒ Cross Curricular Reading Tools
ƒ Study Smarter, Not Harder

Contextualized Resources:

ƒ EARAT (Communications for Motive Power Apprentices: Skill # 1,3,4,5,7-13)

Technical Resources:

ƒ All Individual Learning Modules
ƒ Automotive Technology: A Systems Approach, 4 th Edition (with CD ROM)
ƒ Auto Fundamentals
ƒ Automotive Technology: Principles, Diagnosis, and Service, Canadian Edition

Online Resources:

ƒ http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/studentsuccess/thinkliteracy/files/Reading.pdf
(Reading Strategies)
ƒ http://www.red-seal.ca/Site/english/pdf/ipg_guide/automotiveservice
technician_2007_e.pdf (Interprovincial Program Guide-AST 2007)
ƒ http://www.42explore.com/skim.htm (Skimming and Scanning)
ƒ http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/studentsuccess/thinkliteracy/files/Reading.pdf
(Strategies for Reading Graphical Text)
ƒ http://www.autozone.com/az/cds/en_us/0900823d/80/05/03/48/0900823d800
50348/repairInfoPages.htm (Autozone: Repair Information)
ƒ http://www.keyskillssupport.net/search/Resource-25617.aspx (How to Skim)
ƒ http://www.keyskillssupport.net/search/Resource-25618.aspx (How to Scan)
ƒ http://www.42explore.com/skim.htm (Skimming and Scanning)
ƒ http://www.keyskillssupport.net/search/Resource-25620.aspx (How to
Summarize)
ƒ http://www.open.ac.uk/skillsforstudy/active-reading.php (Active Reading)