A worksheet containing an article writing activity that asks the learner to write a newspaper article on a current topic. The topic for each text is the current UK ‘dangerous’ dog debate. Information, planning template page is provided as well as two blank lined pages for writing

An English Reading Comprehension Activity. This resource gives the learner an overview of the celebration: Halloween Learners will read the text and then answer ten skimming and scanning questions based on this document. There is also an extension question. Answers are provided so that learners can self mark.

This sheet can be used as a guide to help students identify what effect certain language or structural features can have on the reader. Can be used as a visual revision resource. *To ensure this document prints correctly with the black border select ‘print to printable area’ option in print settings.

A great lesson starter to get your students to remember character’s names and themes from the play. Instructions: Cut out the images on the grid sheet and place them inside of a container. Give each player a bingo card. As you draw an image from the container, ask the players to cross them out on their grid sheet. The first player who gets 3 in a row, wins the first round! Continue playing the game until someone gets a full house!

An A3 PDF resource that I created and used with my mixed ability KS3 English class. I got the learners to write down each character in the play and asked them to write down the character’s personality traits. They then drew each character (their interpretation of what they thought that character would look like). Learners were also asked to pick a key quote from the play that best reflected that character’s personality. Following this, they then wrote an overview of each scene. This was in preparation for a practice essay question.

An A3 PDF revision resource. Once your learners have finished reading Dennis Kelly’s play, get them to revise their knowledge and write a summary of each scene. Great for GCSE revision.

A worksheet which will to help learners to identify different language features. This worksheet uses some quotes from Muhammad Ali’s most well-known speeches. Learner’s are asked to identify the language techniques used in each quote.

This is a 13 page PPT on how to write an article. The PPT includes: What is an article? What do I include in an article? Step-by-Step article format and content slides Examples throughout PPT Layout of an article 3 practice question tasks

Two revision guides - one catered for NCFE and one catered for City and Guilds. Both are 6/7 page revision guides that helps learners to understand what to expect in their reading assessment. They also gives advice and examples of how to answer the questions on the exam paper. Revision guides includes: Overview of the assessment Source document that will be used throughout the guide to show examples of how to answer the questions How to skim and scan a piece of text The different purposes of a text how to find the meaning of words How to replace a given word (C&G guide only) These revision guides are based on the NCFE and City and Guilds criteria and uses the updated REFORMED Functional Skills delivery guide.

This is a 26 page PowerPoint that can be used in the delivery of Functional Skills Reading Entry Level 3. This PPT includes everything learners need to know in order to pass their reading assessment (it is based on the NCFE awarding body criteria). The PPT gives learners an overview of the following: Overview of the reading assessment Skimming & Scanning - Step by step techniques and task worksheet Purpose of a Text- Different purposes of a text - the different purposes that you need to know for your exam, a class matching quiz and a practice exam question Finding the meaning of words - A dictionary task and step by step guide on how to answer this question. This is followed by a task. A skimming and scanning question worksheet, plus answers, is provide. Questions and answers are also provided throughout the PPT.

Get your learners to pick one of the characters from a book they are reading and then create a Facebook profile for that character. They will fill in all of the information that they know about them from the book and add other additional presumed information of their own. They will also write a status that sums up what that character is feeling at a particular moment in the book. A fun character analysis activity.

This sheet can be used as a guide to help students answer Paper 1: Question 3. It gives them a guide to what structural techniques they can identify in the part of the text they are being asked to read. They can choose a few of the techniques on the guide to help them with their response to the question. *To ensure this document prints correctly with the black border select ‘print to printable area’ option in print settings.

Get learners to identify which words require a capital letter on the worksheet. They can highlight the words that should contain a capital letter in one colour and the ones that don’t in another colour. Go through the answers as a class afterwards. Answer sheet is provided.

This resource contains four tasks that meet the NCFE criteria for Functional Skills English Writing criteria. Learners are asked to write each of the following and are given a scenario: Write a letter Write an email Write an article Write a review Write a report I am due to upload many Functional Skills English lessons / resources.

This is a workbook which contains 10x alphabetical order tasks on a range of topics. In the E3 English exam, learners are asked to put a list of words in alphabetic order. I have created 10 worksheets that are similar to this exam question. Each worksheet has 18 words for the learner to put in alphabetic order. They can do this indervidually or as a class.

This is an 18 page fun task booklet based on the book: Gangsta Granny. I created this booklet for my KS3 English reading class ( but can be used with KS2 students). The booklet contains 15 different tasks that pupils can complete as they read through the book. There are tasks for each of the first fourteen chapters and a book prediction task to complete before reading. Tasks include: Reading book predictions Reading comprehension Descriptive Writing ( locating words classes and language techniques) Word search ‘Scrabble’- rearrange the words Memory game Interrogation: Interviewing Granny Rhyming poem task Mapping journey descriptions Wanted posters Homophone / Capital Letter Task Diary entry Chapter predication Plus many more… Rich Text Format and Word Document files attached for compatibility.

Letter Writing Task. The learner has a letter writing task to complete and can plan and format their letter correctly by using the included letter writing template.

Identify the adjectives in the following short story.

A short PPT on how to answer Q2. This gives the learner examples and a overview of how to plan and structure their answer.

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