Mostly writing tasks about healthy eating. First there is a short reading task followed by activities on healthy eating classes, creating an advert for the classes, filling in a form to join them and a follow-up email to thank the provider for the classes.

This document sets out to explain the differences between me, I and myself. It is a concept which a lot of people get wrong, so this outlines the differences. The exercises are from another source.

Here is a basic writing task on sentence writing and a quick quiz to check understanding.

This is a description of some of the most important language features required for Functional Skills Level 1 reading. Afterwards there is a matching exercise to consolidate learning.

A short quiz on punctuation and one on capital letters.

This resource outlines the instances when the learner would need to use capital letters and finishes with an exercise. If it needs any corrections please let me know.

This document describes some of the uses of capital letter that might be useful for the Functional skills learner, including an exerise to practise at the end.

A level 1 functional skills exercise explaining simple, compound and complex sentences and the conjunctions used with them. There is then an exercise to consolidate the learning.

This is a lesson plan and a number of resources and ideas which will practise many of the functional skills requirements such as alphabetical ordering, reading comprehensions, speaking and listening and writing.

This resource shows a variety of ways to open and close emails which will help those learners who struggle to get their ideas on to paper. I have used the University of Washington course on Coursera on the same subject to assist with this.

Here are some slides with three words which need to be ordered alphabetically. There is also a video from Youtube explaining how to go about the process. There is a worksheet with just single letters that need to be ordered.

Here are some tricky words and some commonly mis-spelt words. The short film points out the words and gives some ideas on how to think about spelling them.

This is a lesson using pictures from the internet and very short stories borrowed with permission from the site fifty word stories. The idea is to try to get learners to start to get the idea of the text from the pictures and then to pick out the salient words when they are presented with the short text connected to the pictures.

Differentiated resources on how to use conjunctions with examples . I have used some of David Didau’s groupings for the higher level here.

This is a shorter diagnostic than the BKSB and also includes a reading comprehension and writing section.

Here are three photos with some questions for the learner and directions on planning and then drafting a story based on what they see. I have also included a short powerpoint on writing an editing a very short story.

Some ideas on helping learners to tackle reading comprehensions

This is a range of activities on the theme of fears and phobias, many of which are borrowed from elsewhere. There is also a gap fill song and a couple of videos, one is a line-up one and the other is about tackling phobias. The videos could be used for discussion activities. The other resources are for entry level functional skills, so there is some phonic work as well as punctuation and adjectives.

These are resources I have made for learners to tackle alone and they are grouped according to the 16+ phonics toolkit from the ETF.

Two ways of planning writing, first of all using bullet points and secondly using a writing frame. Both planning for a party or social event.