Eight writing practice tasks for Functional Skills English.

How to write a newspaper article How to format the article What to include in the article Newspaper article task

**Instructions ** Cut out the five punctuation cards and place them in front of you. On the next page, you will be given a range of phrases and sentences. Each is missing a particular punctuation mark. Place each sentence / phrase underneath the correct punctuation card. Example: If the sentence reads: ‘Andys car had a flat tyre,’ then this sentence should be placed under the ‘apostrophe mark’ card.

An English reading comprehension task that will improve learners skimming and scanning skills.

This style of questioning will feature in learners Functional Skills Reading Assessment.

A great starter for a Functional Skills English Lesson

Get your learners to create their own magical creature to add to ‘Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them’ book. They will start by looking at an extract from the book and doing a task on this. Then they will begin to create their own creature. Please note that this PPT and Worksheet was not my original idea and I used FREE resources that I found on TES and the internet to put into a PPT. I adapted this PPT and created the worksheet myself using these ideas. Thank you for sharing your resources with other education professionals.

Improve your learners’ reading skills with this skimming and scanning exercise.

A fun lesson starter to see how much students remember from chapters 1 - 15 .

A lesson so learners can understand the five parts of narrative structure. They will read this short story before breaking it down in 5 parts. Following this they will then begin to plan part 2 of this short story.

Learners are asked to research the context of the novel in order to get some background information on the novel.

A lesson introducing Unseen Poetry and what to expect in the exam paper. It explains to learners how to annotate a poem using the SMILE technique and they will analyse Plath’s poem ‘The Mirror.’ Please note: I created this PPT using mostly my own ideas, however, to create this lesson, I have also adapted/ pasted some information from other ‘FREE download’ poetry resources that I found on TES. Thankyou for sharing your work.

A worksheet to introduce KS3 or KS4 students to what to initially look for when they first read a poem. There are questions on the sheet to prompt them to read the poem and then answer the questions including: What the poem is about Why certain words and phrases are used What the mood and atmosphere of the poem is Who the narrator of the poem is. I have purposely left out the title of the poem, as I wanted my group to guess what the object ( the mirror) is.

A fifteen question multiple choice quiz. Students will be given a each from each poem and must write down on the white board which poem it is from. Answers are given on the PPT once they have answered the question. I also have a sencond version of this quiz which you can download for free: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12649377

How to read and annotate the text before moving on to answer the exam questions 1- 4.

A fun task that gets learners to draw characters from the writers description and to recognize adjectives.

A five question reading task with answers. The text itself is a case study taken from the Comic Relief website. Topic: Food Banks / Food Poverty

2 English activities. I sourced the language technique grid from TES and the article from The Daily Mail and edited them to make an English activity. Get students to locate the language devices from the article and then create a descriptive story or article by choosing a funny headline as a prompt!

This is a task that I have created. Students will use their skills to rewrite an informal letter into a formal letter.

Identify the adjectives in the following short story.