Functional Skills English: Module 3

Fully Editable | NCFE & Edexcel Aligned | Ideal for KS4 & Post-16 Learners.

This comprehensive, learner-friendly PowerPoint focuses on the vital reading skills required for Functional Skills English at both Level 1 and Level 2. Designed to enhance reading comprehension and analytical thinking, this session equips students to identify purpose, audience, tone, bias, and key details across a range of text types.

Resource Highlights:

1. Step-by-step guidance on reading for purpose using TAP (Text Type, Audience, Purpose)
2. Explicit teaching of fact vs. opinion with real-world examples and task
3. Skills-based reading techniques: skimming, scanning, and identifying key information
4. Text analysis activities covering adverts, articles, reports, emails, and more
5. Tasks on formal vs. informal tone and biased vs. balanced language
6. Focused practice on analysing persuasive devices and emotive language
7. Scaffolded reading comprehension tasks with modelled answers
8. Student-led activities including comparison questions, formal rewording tasks, and paragraph writing

Bonus Features:

1. Realistic reading texts such as government reports, adverts, and news stories
2. Embedded grammar and sentence structure revision (simple, compound, complex)
3. Ideal for GCSE resits, Functional Skills preparation, and EAL/ESOL support

This resource is designed to build confident, critical readers and help students meet Functional Skills English reading outcomes. Adaptable for in-class, remote, or homework use.