This resource provides 4 different texts that have been created for Functional Skills English Level 1. This resource may also be used to stretch learners on Entry 3 Functional Skills English. This resource fully supports the City and Guilds awarding body, including both the Reforms and the Legacy papers. This resource is mainly used to discuss the main purposes of a text/text types/organisational features/information retrieval.

A student checklist that allows learner to see their own progression in Functional Skills English Level 1 for City & Guilds. The checklist consists of the assessment outcomes for Functional Skills English Level 1 and can be used to keep learners on track for their target grade. The checklists can also be used to show teachers what areas students are finding challenging. Recommendation: Provide learners with three colours and complete a traffic light system to represent their confidence. Ideally, this should be completed at the end of each term. Feel free to add your school/college’s logo to the document to fit within your own educational setting.

A student checklist that allows learner to see their own progression in AQA GCSE English Language. The checklist consists of the assessment outcomes for AQA GCSE English Language and can be used to keep learners on track for their target grade. The checklists can also be used to show teachers what areas students are finding challenging. Recommendation: Provide learners with three colours and complete a traffic light system to represent their confidence. Ideally, this should be completed at the end of each term. Feel free to add your school/college’s logo to the document to fit within your own educational setting.

This resource comes complete with practice questions 1 and 2 for the AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1. The resource contains the following: Lesson (powerpoint) Source Text Answers for questions 1 and 2 The duration of this lesson is for 1 hour and can be stretched to 1 hour 30 minutes if needed. This resource focuses on how language influences the reader, using several language features, as well as developing a greater understanding of a PEE paragraph structure.

This resource provides your learners with a clear understanding of writers’ persepctives and writers methods in relation to Question 4 in Paper 2. This document can be printed double sided and laminated so that your students can use this to help them with their classwork. One side of the document looks at writers’ persepctives, methods and connectives to help them construct their own answers to question 4. On the other side, the document provides structure for answering question 4. For example, how many paragraphs and what to include in them. Please note that VEME stands for: Viewpoint, Evidence, Method, Explain. This document works well both as a literacy mat and a writing prompt for Paper 2: Question 4.

Both articles focus on mental and physical health. These texts have been created for the compare and contrast questions in City and Guilds Functional Skills English, Levels 1-2. These texts can be used separately for level 1 or together for level 2. These articles help learners identify language features, purpose of a text and audience. Please note that the physical health article focuses on a wheelchair users health and helps interesting topics to unfold with British Values.