Resources aimed at Functional Skills English and GCSE English language students, designed and created by an English Lecturer in FE with 7 years' experience teaching and 3 years' experience as an AQA English Language GCSE examiner.
Resources aimed at Functional Skills English and GCSE English language students, designed and created by an English Lecturer in FE with 7 years' experience teaching and 3 years' experience as an AQA English Language GCSE examiner.
A full lesson with all resources to cover purpose and features of text. full PowerPoint and 3 learner activities. Resources are differentiated to cover E3 - L2.
Activity 1 - Differentiated worksheet.
Activity 2 - Interactive scavenger hunt QR activity to encourage student participation. Each QR code links to a video and students are required to identify the purpose of the video.
Activity 3 - Differentiated workbook
Activity 4 - Exam style question
Functional Skills Math workbook aimed at measure, money and time element of the City and Guilds E3 qualification.
Tasks assessing students ability to:
Calculate with money using decimal notation and express money correctly in writing in pounds and pence.
Round amounts of money to the nearest £1 or 10p.
Read,measure and record time using AM & PM
Read time from analogue and 24 hour digital clocks in hours and minutes.
Use and compare measure of length, capacity, weight and temprature using metric or imperial units to the nearest labelled or unlabelled division.
Compare metric measures of length including millimeters, centimeters, meters and kilometers.
Compare measures of weigh including grams and kilograms
Compare measures of capactiy including milliltres.
A scaffolded Powerpoint to guide students through paper 1 question 2, with activities and the full text for students so students can complete the summative task of completing question 2 independently.
A complete workbook focused on travel training. With a focus on
1.Pedestrian Skills - The Green Cross Code, different pedestrain crossings, road signs and safe places to cross the road.
2.Comminuication Skills -Safer strangers, speaking up and staying safe, communicating while making journeys.
3.Personal Safety - Medical needs, packing your bag appropriately, safe places in the community to seek help, diet and health and time.
4.Problem Solving- Everyday problems we may encounter and how we would deal with these.
5.Journey Planning - Planning and preparing for journeys which you may begin to make independently.
Full PowerPoint presentation looking at AQA question 4, breaking down the mark scheme and showing students a planning method using venn diagrams to help them organise their ideas, moving to structured paragraphs to help them meet the skills descriptors on the mark scheme
A resource designed to assess a student’s knowledge on fact and opinions and formal and informal through a range of assessment methods. Students are required to answer questions, then read text and answer the questions accordingly. Additionally, there is a summative assessment of the skills using Edexcel sample L1 reading exam questions.
AQA sources and questions collated into a handy booklet, in past exam date order. Examplar answers for questions 2 - 5 at the end. Can be printed in a booklet format and printed out to give to students to keep for annotation and reference.
Complete with texts from:
Novemeber 2017
June 2018
Novemeber 2018
June 2019
November 2019
Novemeber 2020
Novemeber 2021
Functional Skills Math workbook aimed at number and using the number system element of the City and Guilds E3 qualification.
Tasks assessing students ability to:
Count, read, write, order and compare numbers up to 1000
Add and subtract using three-digit whole numbers
Divide three-digit whole numbers by single and double digit whole numbers and express remainders
Multiply two-digit whole numbers by single and double digit whole numbers
Approximate by rounding numbers less than 1000 to the nearest 10 or 100 and use this rounded answer to check results
Recognise and continue linear sequences of numbers up to 100
Read, write and understand thirds, quarters, fifths and tenths including equivalent forms
A walk through lesson of how to answer Q4 for low level learners based on the June 2018 Jigs and reels paper 1. With a range of low, medium and high marked examplar responses.
A range of slides to aid with the teaching of paper 2 q4 to help students achieve a minimum of a “attempted” response. With a range of different planning techniques students can adopt, and examples of different ways to approach the question.