Functional Skills Level 2 Reading, Guided Exam Practice - Parenthood / Childcare

Adapted from a City and Guilds past exam paper, this is a truly engaging Powerpoint I created to help break down and guide learners, to complete a Functional Skills Level 2 Reading Exam.

This lesson makes reference to four non fiction texts; a magazine article (Document 2) an online forum (Document 3) and a flyer for a hypnotherapist (Document 4).

The theme is ‘parenthood’ - an ideal FS English resource for those engaged in health, social, and childcare courses.

Scope of study:

• Identify the different situations when the main points are sufficient and when it is important to have specific details
• Compare information, ideas and opinions in different texts, including how they are conveyed
• Identify implicit and inferred meaning in texts
• Understand the relationship between textual features and devices, and how they can be used to shape meaning for different audiences and purposes
• Use a range of reference materials and appropriate resources (e.g. glossaries, legends/keys) for different purposes, including to find the meanings of words in straightforward and complex sources
• Understand organisational features and use them to locate relevant information in a range of straightforward and complex sources
• Analyse texts, of different levels of complexity, recognising their use of vocabulary and identifying levels of formality and bias
• Follow an argument, identifying different points of view and distinguishing fact from opinion
• Identify different styles of writing and writer’s voice