Functional Skills Level 1, Reading Exam Preparation Cards - Renting your own flat

Printable double sided reading practice / revision cards with a text to read on one side, and an exam style question on the reverse.

Can be incorporated into lessons one by one as activities, or used in sequence to practice a Level 1 Reading exam.

Scope of study:

• Identify and understand the main points, ideas and details in texts
• Compare information, ideas and opinions in different texts
• Identify meanings in texts and distinguish between fact and opinion
• Recognise that language and other textual features can be varied to suit different audiences and purposes
• Use reference materials and appropriate strategies (e.g. using knowledge of different word types) for a range of purposes, including to find the meaning of words
• Understand organisational and structural features and use them to locate relevant information (e.g. index, menus, subheadings, paragraphs) in a range of straightforward texts
• Infer from images meanings not explicit in the accompanying text
• Recognise vocabulary typically associated with specific types and purposes of texts (e.g. formal, informal, instructional, descriptive, explanatory and persuasive)
• Read and understand a range of specialist words in context
• Use knowledge of punctuation to aid understanding of straightforward texts