Functional Skills: Reading - PowerPoint presentation and worksheets

Functional Skills: Reading

This teaching resource is a detailed unit of work made up of an 88 slide PowerPoint presentation, 32 worksheets and a unit overview with 9 step by step lessons. All lessons are structured using the four part lesson plan (starter, introduction, development and plenary) and all can be tweaked and edited to suit your specific teaching needs. It includes:

Full unit of work overview

An introduction to Functional Skills Reading

An examination of the features of written texts

How to adapt writing to a particular audience and purpose

How to find information quickly - skimming, scanning and highlighting texts

Retrieving information from a text

The use of presentational devices and the layout of a text

Locating and responding to information in charts and tables

An exemplar functional skills reading task

Functional Skills reading assessment criteria