We offer an extensive range of engaging resource that are proven to educate learners of various ages and abilities. Our catalogue of workbooks cover an array of subjects including Functional Skills, Maths, English, Digital Skills, Retail, Employability, Social Development and Tutorials.
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We offer an extensive range of engaging resource that are proven to educate learners of various ages and abilities. Our catalogue of workbooks cover an array of subjects including Functional Skills, Maths, English, Digital Skills, Retail, Employability, Social Development and Tutorials.
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These workbooks have been designed and proven to educate learners on various foods and recipes while promoting creativity and individuality.
Each of the units of work include a selection of engaging functional skill theory tasks and practical cooking sessions.
The practical elements require learners to pair up and follow a method to cook, Homemade Burgers, Pork Stir fry and Traditional Scones which can be adapted to taste, intolrances, allegies and dietry choice.
They can then complete a written evaluation which includes guided questioning. Any photographs taken during the practical can be attached as additional evidence.
Finally, a Tutor/Teacher can give feedback and promote target setting in areas needing improvement, i.e. confidence, communication, timing, focus etc.
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These workbooks have been designed and proven to educate learners on a variety of subjects that will enhance knowledge, creativity, individuality and embed valuable functional skills. The resource can be used effectively in Tutorials, English and various other sessions. The unit also incorperats ICT with the optional use of Microsoft Excel, Publisher and Word.
These particular instalment focuses on the Pros & Cons of Tattoos and requires learners to complete various tasks, take an active role in group discussions, case studies and participate in activities to help them gain an understanding of the why people decide to have a tattoo, with lots of opportunity to give their own informed opinion.
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This resource looks at one of the world’s most popular messaging applications - WhatsApp. Whether learners are new to WhatsApp or looking to brush up on their basis skills and knowledge, this presentation will guide them through everything they need to know to get started and make the most out of this powerful communication tool.
The ‘Guide Only’ resource and includes a 20 slide stuctured PPT. Tasks and activities can be set separately as tutors see fit. It does include a 10-question multiple choice quiz as a recap (answers included).
Slides cover:
Overview of WhatsApp and its popularity as a messaging app.
Downloading WhatsApp
Setting Up Your Account
Adding Contacts
Starting a Chat
Sending Messages
Sending Voice Memos
Creating Groups
Group Chat Features
Making Calls
Sending Photos and Videos
Status Updates
Managing Notifications
Privacy Settings
How to block and unblock contacts.
How to back up and restore
Security Features
Troubleshooting
Conclusion, Q&A and Quiz
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One of the difficulties that students encounter when faced with a writing task in English is how to get started and then cohesively develop that thought. I find that many of them, especially younger students, rebel at the idea of rigorous planning and drafting, just wanting to get it down. Others face a barrier of fear.
I came across the idea of using the Fibonacci sequence for extended and creative writing by accident when searching an online thesaurus. I immediately saw the sense in it and decided to apply it in the classroom. It worked. It solved the problem. There was now a way to plan, draft, develop and craft in small pieces that led to a satisfying cohesive whole. Some were amazed at just how much they could write and how they could creatively extend their writing in terms of thought provoking discussion. In lower ability classes it provided an element of fun and removed the daunting prospect of extended writing with higher word counts. In the higher ability groups it opened up the channel for students comfortably working at grade ‘C’ to move out of that comfort zone and stretch upwards towards the A* that so many of them had the potential to reach.
When I analysed the results I found that two things contributed to the success.
1. The fact that a piece of extended writing is built step at a time through developing levels of skill. This encouraged confidence.
2. The framework encouraged the skill of planning, drafting, and editing. Choosing the right words and the most effective order of words, within a gradually increasing number of words, developed vocabulary, sentence structure, and lifted the content away from basic repetition of facts. Students had the confidence to ‘craft’ their writing.
The resource that follows uses an example in which the students can engage collaboratively. There is then an individual assignment for them to complete using the sequence. As it stands it fits criteria suited to the ‘gifted and talented’ of Key Stage 3, and will be of value in Key Stage 4 to move those ‘C’ grade learners out of their comfort zone and stretch them upwards. However, it can be adapted quite easily for students of lower ability. Post 16 students who achieved low grade GCSE and need to either re-sit or complete Functional Skills English at level 2 will also find this pattern helps build their skills.
The resource has been designed in a workbook format. However, it doesn’t have to be used that way. It can be copied and pasted onto a presentation for whole class collaborative discussion and writing projects. Each page has been formatted so that it stands alone and therefore can be photocopied separately and used at appropriate times in the lesson (s). It has been left in Microsoft Word format so that it is editable by teachers who wish
This Flashcard series is focused on UK Road Signs and can be used as an effective revision resource for all those studying for the UK Driving theory test. They can also be used as a standalone classroom activity to familiarise students of all ages with UK road signs.
They are fully editable resource and available to download as a PDF file or WORD doc. They can be in adapted to suit a range of learner styles and levels.
They should on printed on card (preferably) double-sided and then cut out and used in any way that best compliments your own teaching style.
Flashcards are proven as an effective method in assisting learning and ensuring it is taking place. They embrace a wonderful mental process called ‘Active Recall’ and can be used in various ways such as:
• Recapping knowledge – As a starter activity related to the previous lesson.
• Refreshing knowledge - Incorporating them randomly in any lesson.
• Revising for exams - Confirming the knowledge required for assessment.
• Embedding both Maths & English.
• Embracing Equal Opportunities & Diversity.
• Creating new knowledge – The possibilities are endless.
FLASHCARDS Series - Driving Theory 1 ROAD SIGNS now available and can be bought together for a bundle price of £4.49
Have Fun
This 3 Workbook Bundle Pack has been designed and proven to challenge and assess learners understanding of the knowledge required of them to achieve a Functional Skills Maths Certificate at Entry level.
The workbooks include various tasks and activities that to suit learners of all ages and varied abilities in preparing them for their up and coming assessment. The resources have been very successful with keys stage 1 and 2 and with SEN/LLDD learners of all ages.
These particular workbook primarily focus on Addition, Subtraction and Multiplication and can be easily adapted to stretch abilities of learners working at a higher level. Word versions are available just message me for these formats.
The Addition installment includes:
Dominoes Challenge
Dominoes (Test your friends)
Roll the dice!
Family Picnic & Quiz
Piggy Pairs
Numbers Game
Against the clock
Squares Count
Pyramid Puzzle (easy, Medium, Hard)
Colour your own sums
Counting the Pennies
Holiday Money
Number Line Counting
Let's use Tally (Farmyard Task)
Time for Bingo (Bingo & Caller cards included)
and the Subtraction workbook includes:
Difference Dots
Fruit & Vet Sale
Less than 2 minutes
Saturday Night Take Away
Subtraction Squares (Easy - Medium - Hard)
The Washing Line
Lets Go Bowling
Lets Bowl Game
Subtraction in Space (Easy - Medium - Hard)
Dice Cream Game
Real Life Sums
Double Decker Bus
Time For Bingo
The Multiplication workbook includes a range of tasks and activities that works well with smart board or interactive technology... i.e King Fred the frog, Mum's shopping trip or even 'a day in the garden'...
Functional Skills Challenge Workbook - Division will be available soon.
These worksheets have been designed and proven to educate learners on a variety of subjects that will enhance knowledge, creativity, individuality and embed valuable functional skills. The resource can be used effectively in tutorials, English or ICT sessions.
This instalment of worksheets focuses on allowing the learner to decide what they would imagine their perfect job to be. It then tasks them with breaking that job role down and asks them to create an advert for their chosen vocation.
They will explore the pros and cons of each others ‘perfect job’ choices and demonstrate their capabilities of understanding the opinions of others as well as being able to put their own opinion across.
The Resource also includes and example of an advert designed by a previous learner.
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This resource is available to download as a PDF file. Word versions are available and feel free to message me directly for these formats at SmartbooksED@outlook.com
This resource has been designed to subtly embed the valuable functional skills learners required to get the most out of education, work and everyday life and to help them function more confidently, effectively and independently.
Each resource has been proven to educate learners on a variety of subjects that will enhance knowledge as well as promoting creativity and individuality.
This particular Fun Game of Higher or Lower focuses on the calorie count of various popular foods.
Simply print off the 30 different food cards (back to back) onto card or alternatively laminate them.
Shuffle them and place the pile somewhere everyone can see or have a glamourous assistant hold them for you. Ensure that the cards are displaying the front of the cards.
Split in to two teams. The dealer will draw the first card, each team needs to try and guess the calorie count in that food item. The dealer will reveal the answer and whichever team was the closest gets to start.
The dealer will then in turn flip each car revealing a new food item. Each team needs to guess whether the calorie count is higher or lower than the previous card. Every correct answer will earn that team a point. The team keep going until they get one wrong and it the switches to the other team.
The game finishes when all the cards have been revealed and the team with the most points win. Alternatively you could ask the learner to stand up for higher or sit down for lower!
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These series of resources has been created for those Teaching and Studying Pearson BTEC Workskills Certificate.
The qualification itself is made up of over 100 Units and each unit requires assessment that can present evidence and demonstrate that all learning outcomes have been met.
These Final Assignment Workbooks include various challenges, activities and tests to prove learners understanding and collate the evidence required to confirm they have met all outcomes.
These concluding assignments can be completed by the individual learner and would normally follow 2 - 3 sessions of underpinning knowledge, group activities, research tasks and relevant delivery.
This particular instalment in the series focuses on the importance or producing an effective and successful CV and covers the following criteria.
UNIT 1 Produce a CV.
Know the purpose of a CV
Know information required in a CV
Know the purpose of a reference in a CV
Be able to produce a CV
A fully editable WORD DOC version is available on request.
Other Units in this series are available on TES and within the Grainge_Ed Resource Shop
These workbooks have been designed and proven to challenge and assess learners understanding of the knowledge required of them to achieve a Functional Skills Maths Certificate at Entry level.
The workbooks include various tasks and activities that to suit learners of all ages and varied abilities in preparing them for their up and coming assessment. The resources have been very successful with keys stage 1 and 2 and with SEN/LLDD learners of all ages.
This particular instalment primarily focuses on ‘Subtraction’’ and can be easily adapted to stretch abilities of learners working at a higher level and includes:
Difference Dots
Fruit & Vet Sale
Less than 2 minutes
Saturday Night Take Away
Subtraction Squares (Easy - Medium - Hard)
The Washing Line
Lets Go Bowling
Lets Bowl Game
Subtraction in Space (Easy - Medium - Hard)
Dice Cream Game
Real Life Sums
Double Decker Bus
Time For Bingo
A WORD doc version is available just message me for this format.
The 2nd of a series of resources centered on and around the Retail industry They can be in adapted to suit a range of learner styles and levels and can be delivered individually, as worksheets or collectively as a final assignment.
This particular series includes the following:
Window Displays
Visual Merchandising & Task
Shop Floor & Sales Areas
Manual Handling & Task
Lifting Equipment
Deliveries
Stock Management
Stock Checks
Product Placement & Task
Recap Quiz
Series 1, 3 and 4 available at the TES Smartbooks Shop
Look out for the FLASHCARD series that accompanies the Smartbooks Retail Series of Workbooks.
The resource is in PDF Format but also available as a fully editable Word doc by request.
Halloween Special installment from the GraingeED FLASHCARD series.
The following Flashcards are based around ‘Halloween’ a festival celebrated around the world at the end of October and should be printed out on card (preferably) double sided, cut out and used anyway that works best for you.
They are fully editable resource and available to download as a PDF file or WORD doc. They can be in adapted to suit a range of learner styles and levels.
These worksheets have been designed and proven to educate learners on a variety of subjects that will enhance knowledge, creativity, individuality and embed valuable functional skills. The resource can be used effectively in Tutorials or English sessions .
These particular worksheets focus on reading an article based on the growing Seagull problem in the UK and requires learners to demonstrate various English skills and subtly embeds many of the Functional skills required for assessment.
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These worksheets have been designed and proven to educate learners on a variety of subjects that will enhance knowledge, creativity, individuality and embed valuable functional skills. The resource can be used effectively in Tutorials or English sessions .
The resource focuses on visiting the UK town of Newquay.
It requires learners to demonstrate various English skills and subtly embeds many of the Functional skills required for assessment and is broken down into the following tasks:
Task 1 - Learners will read a promotional text taken from an online site and then rewrite paragraphs in their own words.
Task 2 - Using 3 words, learners will describe 8 pictures that will be used in the next task.
Task 3 - Learners will write a postcard to a family or friend telling them about their holiday in Newquay including words from the last task.
Task 4 - Either using a PC or hand-drawn learners will create a Bus Stop poster to promote visiting the town of Newquay.
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These worksheets have been designed and proven to educate learners on a variety of subjects that will enhance knowledge, creativity, individuality and embed valuable functional skills. This resource can be used effectively in Tutorials or English sessions.
This instalment of worksheets focuses on the importance of keeping personal information safe. Learners will participate in various activities to become familiar with the many dangers and demonstrate new knowledge on how to take action to minimise the risk of data and identity theft.
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These worksheets have been designed to subtly embed the valuable functional skills learners required to get the most out of education, work and everyday life and to help them function more confidently, effectively and independently. They can be used effectively in Tutorials or Maths sessions.
Each resource has been proven to educate learners on a variety of subjects that will enhance knowledge as well as promoting creativity and individuality.
This Bundle Includes the following 3 Resources:
World Records
This first resourse focuses on ‘Records set around the World’. Learners are tasked with estimating various measurements from the tallest to the heaviest, longest to shortest etc. They are then challenged to convert those amounts to an alternative form of measurement i.e. litre to pints, miles to Kilometres etc
Time for a Holiday
The second resouces starts with a warm up activity and tests the learner’s knowledge of Seaside towns in the UK and their locations. Great task to use on a SMART Board or in separate groups on A3 paper.
It then requires them to study a series of weather graphes and answer questions to confirm they are able to read and extract the correct information.
The final task involves budgeting a holiday to Newquay using a fictional scenario and an allowance of £650.
Possible Extension Tasks
Task 1 - Ask learners to find the location of other towns and activities.
Task 2 - Extend questions to work out the Mean, Mode and Median.
Task 3 - Limit Budget or change the scenario to make it more challenging.
Reading Timetables
This 3rd resource focuses on ‘Reading Timetables’. Learners are tasked with studying 3 examples, a Bus Timetable, a Swimming Pool Timetable and a College Session Timetable and then extracting the information required to answer the set questions and confirm understanding.
The questions can be answered individually or collectively by cutting them into cards. The larger A3 versions (included) can be displayed and the group can carousel around the room. Alternatively, the questions could be called out by the tutor for a more active learning experience. Lots of scope for interpretation, the resources also included some blank question sheets so learners can create some peer to peer questioning.
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This 3rd series of flashcards, one from each act, evidence ways in which Shakespeare has highlighted the theme of guilt and anxiety in the play.
It is interesting in Macbeth that Macbeth as a military general had no difficulty in applying violent acts to kill his enemy but could not handle emotionally or mentally the murder of King Duncan.
This brings into play questions of right and wrong and integrity and honour.
The purpose of memorising the quotes is to aid a deeper knowledge of the play so that when answering a question the student can move around the play with ease.
The quote is on the left-hand side of each card.
Prompts for discussion are on the right-hand side of each card.
The quotes also have relevance in the discussion of other themes, especially questions that explore the characterisation of Macbeth and plot development.
Other sets available:
Set 1 – The Supernatural
Set 2 – Tragic Hero
Set 4 – Ambition
Set 5 – Characterisation
Set 6 – Plot Development/movement
Look out for Bundles too!
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This series of Flashcards, one from each act, evidence ways in which Shakespeare has used the supernatural to develop characters and also to move forward the plot. However, each quote also has relevance to other themes.
The purpose of memorising the quotes is to aid a deeper knowledge of the play so that when answering a question the student can move around the play with ease.
The quote is on the left-hand side of each card.
Prompts for discussion are on the right-hand side of each card.
The quotes also have relevance in the discussion of other themes, especially questions that explore the characterisation of Macbeth and plot development.
Other sets available:
Set 2 – The Tragic Hero
Set 3 – Guilt/Anxiety
Set 4 – Ambition
Set 5 – Characterisation
Set 6 – Plot Development/movement
Look out for Bundles too!
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These worksheets have been designed and proven to educate learners on a variety of subjects that will enhance knowledge, creativity, individuality and embed valuable functional skills. The resource can also be used effectively in Tutorials or English sessions.
This particular worksheet focuses on using a Thesaurus, understanding synonyms and enabling learners to expand their vocabulary verbally and in their written communication. The Workbook requires learners to demonstrate these new skills and confirm understanding using a series of engaging tasks, including rewriting a wonderful poem by Spike Milligan (Extremely relevant to the events of 2020)
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These resources have been created for those delivering the Digital Functional Skills Qualification at Entry Level which replaces the current Functional Skills ICT Qualification from 31st of July 2023.
The DFS qualification’s main purpose is to provide reliable evidence of a learner’s achievements against content that is relevant to the workplace and real life.
These resources provide a structured assessment in workbook form to evidence learner’s knowledge and skills as well as their ability to apply these in different contexts and demonstrate that all learning outcomes have been met.
The qualification itself is made up of many 5 main skill areas (Modules) each with its own series of units.
The unit workbooks include various challenges, activities and tasks to prove learners understanding. Each page has a header that includes the individual outcomes covered and can be assessed easily and signed off.
This resource covers:
Module 4 – Transacting
4.1 Completing and Submitting an Online Form
This resource includes:
Task 1- What are Online Forms
Learners to become familiar with types of online forms and match up each category with is correct description.
Task 2 – Paper Based v Digital Online Forms
Learners will discuss as a group the key benefits of using online forms compared to traditional paper ones. They can make a list of the pros and cons of each.
Task 3 – Personal Details
This activity allows learners to identify information that is commonly asked for on forms and information less frequently required.
Task 4 – Data Validation
Learners to read 4 scenarios and establish why each fictional character cannot proceed with their online forms.
Task 5 – Learners will scan a (paper based) version of an online form created in Google Forms. They will make notes and identify different question formats and data validation rules.
Task 6 – Create & Complete an online form
Learners will create an account with Google and log into Google forms. They can follow the step-by-step instructions to build an online form which they will then send to their peers for completion and one to their tutor to evaluate and give feedback on. They can then collate responses in google forms and give feedback to one another.
Recap Quiz (Answers included)
Also included in this resource is a Glossary for learners to fill out and Skills and Knowledge checklist to be completed before and after delivery of this unit. Guided Tutor Answers for relevant tasks are included.
This resource is currently in a PDF file format. Word versions are available for free upon purchase of the PDF, please message me directly for these at SmartbooksEd@outlook.com.
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Other Workbooks in this DFSQ series are available on TES. Many are still being created and will all be available soon.