Functional Skills English Reading Implicit Meaning and Inference

Build confidence with one of the most important Functional Skills Reading skills: inference.

This resource helps learners identify implicit meaning, draw conclusions from evidence and answer exam-style inference questions commonly found in Functional Skills English assessments.

Learners practise using clues from short texts to work out what is suggested rather than stated directly, while developing the evidence-based reading skills required for exam success.

Topics covered include:

• Explicit and implicit meaning
• Inference skills
• Evidence selection
• Multiple-choice reading questions
• Open response reading questions
• Exam techniques and reading strategies

Suitable for:

• Functional Skills English Level 1 learners
• Functional Skills English Level 2 learners
• Adult learners
• Further Education colleges
• GCSE resit learners
• Independent study and revision

Resource includes:

• Student Copy
• Teacher Copy
• Exam-style inference questions
• Open response tasks
• Reading skills practice
• Model answers and explanations
• Answers included

This resource can be used as a classroom activity, revision resource, intervention session, assessment task or independent study workbook.

This resource forms part of a growing Functional Skills English resource library.

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