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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

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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
New Functional Skills English - Tone & Mood Interactive Off & Online Session
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New Functional Skills English - Tone & Mood Interactive Off & Online Session

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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. **
New Functional Skills English - Reading Interactive Skim-Scan Off & Online Session
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New Functional Skills English - Reading Interactive Skim-Scan Off & Online Session

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This is a quick Reading session, covering Identifying and Retrieving basic information. It was made with the intention to be used online and has a summative assessment which has been created on Microsoft Forms - as a self-marking quiz. There is a second starter task, on the first slide - now Marco-enabled with moveable tiles. See instructions in slide notes. Session plan included. Aimed at E3-L1 - This can be used as a quick into to Skimming and Scanning. Upload the starter task wordsearch, to Microsoft Whiteboard and collaborate with your group! Join the discussion! Like our Facebook page and join our group…share your experiences and ask any questions: **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. **
New Functional Skills English - Reading Purpose & Audience Interactive Off & Online Session
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New Functional Skills English - Reading Purpose & Audience Interactive Off & Online Session

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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. **
New Functional Skills English - Narrative Account Interactive Writing Off & Online Session
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New Functional Skills English - Narrative Account Interactive Writing Off & Online Session

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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. **
New Functional Skills English - Speech Writing Interactive Off & Online Session
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New Functional Skills English - Speech Writing Interactive Off & Online Session

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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. **
New Functional Skills English - Article Writing Interactive Off & Online Session
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New Functional Skills English - Article Writing Interactive Off & Online Session

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I thought I’d upload this as another free sample of my work. This is a session covering Article Writing. There is a marco-enabled slide, towards the end, which has brief instructions in the slide notes. It has been carefully animated with step-by-step animations which aid delivery and questioning. There is also detailed session plan - with a slide-by-slide set of comments. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Please leave a review! =-) **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. **
New Functional Skills English - L1 & L2 - 8 Session Writing Multipack - Composition
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New Functional Skills English - L1 & L2 - 8 Session Writing Multipack - Composition

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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. Join the discussion! Like our Facebook page and join our group…share your experiences and ask any questions: ***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. **
New Functional Skills English - Review Writing Interactive Off & Online Session
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New Functional Skills English - Review Writing Interactive Off & Online Session

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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. **
New Functional Skills English - Informal Emails Writing Session
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New Functional Skills English - Informal Emails Writing Session

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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! =-)
New Functional Skills English - Report Writing Interactive Off & Online Session
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New Functional Skills English - Report Writing Interactive Off & Online Session

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This session covers Report writing and is linked to the new FS spec. It has been carefully animated with stunning graphics and movements and has an example report, formative tasks which include a Macro-enabled labelling task (tiles can be moves in ppt show, see slide notes for brief instructions). It’s based on one of my previous sessions, which is doing quite well - so I thought I’d offer a variation/revision version. Aimed for online delivery but would also be great in a classroom. 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. **
New Functional Skills English - Blog Writing Interactive Off & Online Session
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New Functional Skills English - Blog Writing Interactive Off & Online Session

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This session is roughly 1.5hrs and covers Personal and Professional Blogs and defines them and Vlogs. It has been carefully animated and uses a new template. There are 3 Macro-enabled matching/sorting tasks - see slides for brief instructions. These are great for teaching online and touch screens. There is also a summative task, examples and a number of informative slides. 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. **
New Functional Skills English - Formal Letters Interactive Off & Online Session
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New Functional Skills English - Formal Letters Interactive Off & Online Session

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This is a quick session which should last roughly 1.5 hours - on and offline. It contains two Marco-enabled sorting activities which are great for use with touch screens, in class, and for online delivery. See slide notes for brief instructions. It has been carefully animated, has a sample response (sadly based on Friends) and has a summative assessment task for which students need to write a formal character reference. 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. **
New Functional Skills English - Instructional Writing Interactive Off & Online Session
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New Functional Skills English - Instructional Writing Interactive Off & Online Session

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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. **
New Functional Skills English - 30 Page Assessment Booklet
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New Functional Skills English - 30 Page Assessment Booklet

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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.
New Functional Skills English - Crash Course + Assessment & Revision
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New Functional Skills English - Crash Course + Assessment & Revision

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This consists of 4 workbooks 3 of which have their own page-for-page ppt presentation - A 6 week English Crash Course set (30 pages). A full Reading & Writing revision workbook (30 pages). Accompanying powerpoint presentations have been created with screenshots of the workbooks, so they can be used to teach or issued for independent work. The Homework book doesn’ have one - for explicit reasons. The crash course set has its own set of assessments included, which have a choice between Engineering and Hair & Beauty (Reading) and the Assessment Book has 2 initials, as well.
New Functional Skills English - Writing Instructions
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New Functional Skills English - Writing Instructions

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This is a session for L 1/2 learners. The Instruction Writing question has appeared in new spec exams and is one that has puzzled a few teachers, including myself. Keeping it simple, it covers sentences, some punctuation and has a couple of tasks and examples. One task requires minimising the narrations screen, while the slide show is running, and moving them around to order them. It also has information from the local area - so you may want to update that with instructions of your own. There are brief details in the slide notes. Created with step-by-step animation, to aid delivery and questioning. I’ve made it as east to deliver as possible, so I hope people like it. Please leave a review! It would be much appreciated. =-)
New Functional Skills English - 6 Week Crash Course L1-2 - General Health & Safety
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New Functional Skills English - 6 Week Crash Course L1-2 - General Health & Safety

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This was designed to help prepare upon return from lockdown. We have a number of students, however, whom might be sitting online exams at home. So with this in mind, this 6 week pack includes: A pair of Reading Initial Assessments (Hair & Beauty/Engineering) A 30 page Crash Course Workbook A 60 slide Powerpoint Presentation There are a number of fun and interesting tasks which can be taught with the presentation. PPT is fully animated with most answers and so this could even be sent out to parents to home school and help their children plan.
New Functional Skills English - Reading Revise/Assess - Now Wash Your Hands
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New Functional Skills English - Reading Revise/Assess - Now Wash Your Hands

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Here is a little free session on Hand-washing and Coronavirus (Covid-19). Contextually appropriate, this contains two nonfictional sources and is aimed at L1/2 students. It can be used as a revision session or an assessment one and has answers in a powerpoint slide set. The previews on here are a bit rubbish. Download and run the slideshow yourself, to see how it works. The writing also looks better than the preview shows! Again, any feedback would be greatly appreciated.