This shop produces Functional Skills English resources, for both Reading & Writing. Resources are well-planned and top quality with a lot of attention to detail. Any questions, contact me via my Facebook page! (Link below).
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This shop produces Functional Skills English resources, for both Reading & Writing. Resources are well-planned and top quality with a lot of attention to detail. Any questions, contact me via my Facebook page! (Link below).
Join our Functional Skills & GCSE English Language Discussion & Resources Group on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/groups/232341065224383
This session is covering speech writing, language, format and examples with links to videos. Discuss Purpose and Language feature matching, as well as directly addressing the audience and its importance.
It is fully animated with click-by-click/step-by-step animation and has some pronoun tasks to cover pronoun use in persuasive writing. There are choices for the summative task and students need to plan for specific purpose, dependent on their choice.
This is a macro-enabled, interactive and fully animated powerpoint presentation, using a text from the assessment booklet in my shop on Stonehenge, as a summative assessment tool.
With a number of basic explanations and interactive formative tasks which can be completed independently or in pairs, groups, or as one whole group, this session is planned for 1.5 hours and has some fun elements. It uses images, colours and text, to determine Tone and Mood, some tasks with graphic emojis.
If used with the screen extended to a larger touch display, then macro tasks can be completed as a marketplace task, in pairs or small groups, or with individuals one-by-one.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)
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This session covers basic Interpretation and i meant for Online delivery. It has formative tasks, some of which need to be edited during a live presentation and one has macro-enabled images which can be moves in the slide show. It would also be great in a classroom and on a touch screen.
Part of my Neon Reading Collection, this one has been visually matched and carefully animated, step-by-step, to aid delivery and questioning. Session plan included.
There is a link to GCSE, here, so this is aimed more at L2, however, there’s nothing like a stretch and challenge.
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
This session covers narrative account writing and has a number of formative tasks on Marco-enabled slides, which can be moved during the slideshow. It links to the new spec FS quals and has been carefully animated with step-by-step animations to aid delivery.
Made with the intention of using online but would be great on a touch screen, in a classroom, too.
Session plan included.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
This is an inclusive booklet of 12 assessment tasks - 6 Reading and 6 Writing.
They have been based on the new specification and there is an online version with text boxes blank and ready to type into.
Covers all the major skills and exam question types and also has a separate Reading & Writing Initial Assessment Task. There is also a 19 slide ppt presentation which goes with it - to introduce and discuss each assessment with a visual display - it also has a full slide of answers for the final assessment, which is the most complex.
It would be worth spending some time going over the Reading assessments to
spot the answers for the basic ones.
This session covers writing instructions and has been carefully animated with high-quality images and Macro-enabled slides allowing for live ‘word magnet’ tasks which are great for teaching Online and using a touch screen, in classrooms.
Writing instructions has appeared on the new FS exams and is a nice easy topic to get into the subject. There is also detailed session plan - with a slide-by-slide set of comments.
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
For preview of the standard - see this free Article Writing Session:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-functional-skills-english-article-writing-interactive-session-12483185
Although this pack doesn’t cover Article Writing - so often focused upon, here; it covers newer spec topics for writing.
These include:
Writing -
Instructions
Blogs
Reviews
Informal Emails
Formal Letters
Formal Reports
Speeches
Narrative Accounts
All but one have Macro enabled slides which have moveable tabs - these have been great for online, remote learning - particularly with use in Microsoft Teams. They will also be great on touchscreens, in classrooms.
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***Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
This uses a cinema booking page and a TV show review. The former being aimed at L1 and the latter, L2.
It guides through determining purpose & tone, via the use of sentence types and purposes - as well as revisiting persuasive features, previously explained.
There are a multitude of animations which demonstrate and explain how Document 1’s purpose can be determined. After guidance, all students are encouraged to have a go at Document 2. L1 students may need support with that one and there are slides with quotations selected to get them started.
Finish off with an email creati a set of relayed instructions to a friend, from Document 1 - after a bit of vocabulary replacement research.
Adventure through the Solar System with this engaging, visually impressive and unique Functional Skills English session!
Practise exam-style reading questions, based on the new spec C&G exam papers and then flow straight into using these original and author-created documents to inspire and guide through article writing.
Differentiate with word count and let L1 learners have a little go of comprehension+ for L2…I also changed the audience aim of the writing to fit with vocational areas like children for childcare students and so on…
This is a selection of 3 Writing and 3 Reading Resources from my colourful ‘Neon’ collection. There are a few free sessions, in my shop, which compliment this set and it covers a range of topics…
Blogs
Formal Letters
Informal Emails (With Mark Scheme)
Purpose & Audience
Mood & Tone
Comprehension
Reading sessions have Word document hand outs which can be used both on and offline.
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
This session covers informal emails and introduces the mark schemes for Composition and Accuracy. It has been carefully animated and structured to deliver, mainly, online but will work well in classrooms, too.
It encourages the use of certain punctuation marks and language features by providing a task with a checklist.
Session plan included.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)
This session covers reviews, using a multitude of examples - it has Marco-enabled tasks (see slide notes for brief instructions). Tiles can be moved in the slideshow, without the need to access the edit screen.
There is also a summative task and it has been carefully animated to compliment delivery. Linked to the new spec FS.
Session plan included.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
This session is a macro-enabled powerpoint that’s been fully animated and covers the 4 main purposes of text:
To…
Persuade
Inform
Explain
Describe
With interactive formative tasks throughout, this is just one in a collection of E3 resources which are under development. A full set will be coming very soon!
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)
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This Reading session has been designed for Online delivery and has formative assessment tasks which are macro-enabled slides. Let your students take control in Teams and lead the tasks! There is also a summative Word document task which has text boxes for Online use but it can be written on, if printed.
Session plan included.
Carefully animated with step-by-step animations to aid delivery and will be part of my Neon Reading set - keep a look out for it!
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
This session covers Comparisons - it has two documents to work with and a number of formative tasks, some of which are macro-enabled slides which are interactive during the live presentation.
With the intent of using them Online, they are great for remote teaching, with step-by-step animations to aid delivery and questioning. Also great for use with a touch screen in classes.
It has a 2 page Word document hand out which has text boxes for Online use but which can also be printed. Session plan included.
Part of my upcoming Neon Reading set - two of which are already available in my shop.
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
This session covers reading nonfictional texts for both Purpose & Audience. It has a few formative tasks, some of which are marco-enabled slides which can be moved during the slideshow. See slide notes for brief intructions. Intended for Online delivery but would be great in a classroom on a touch screen.
Carefully animated with step-by-step revelations to aid delivery and questioning. There is a single hand out A4 page with text boxes for Online use or it could be printed and written into. Sometimes my students will photograph their work or scan it.
Session plan included.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
This session covers Speech Writing with an example response - Marco-enable powerpoint slides with moveable highlighting strips to highlight language features and a summative task.
It has an embedded speech and it was intended for use online. Carefully animated with step-by-step animations and transitions, to make it visually impressive and aid delivery and questioning. It has also been created with the new spec FS quals in mind.
Session plan included.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
These can be used as starters, bridges, or as part of formative assessment. They can be pasted into other marco-enabled files and they can be sent to students as a slide show which can be completed, saved and returned for assessment.
The text boxes can be moved in the live slideshow, just use the ‘Duplicate’ function and not the ‘Extend’ and they work really well on a touch screen, as well as with a mouse.
Students enjoy them because they can take responsibility, both On and Offline.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)
This Entry 3 session is fully animated and includes an interactive pairs slide, and some fun activities like crafting an origami box…this I did as a group and had to practise the night before! It’s great to challenge students and encourage some team work.
There are formative activities throughout and a Terry Practchett page extract to highlight word classes, on a two-sided A4 hand out.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)
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Add the images to your own docs by copying and pasting them. Challenge groups with larger pages or just use as extension tasks. Answers are on separate slides so it can be delivered easily in a class.
A4 & A3 PDFs are also included.
Distribute On or Offline as a starter or extension task. These words can be very confusing, so the more you know - the better your accuracy will be!
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)
