This planning sheet was designed to help students build the skills they need to appropriately attempt the writing section of the functional skills exam. There are tasks to build skills with spelling, grammar and punctuation and helps them to plan a successful written response. If you found this resource helpful then please see my page for more lessons, which are updated each week.

This is a fully differentiated lesson helping teachers to conduct a diagnostic assessment in class to understand the needs and ability of their students. The lesson focuses on the theme of the weekend and has opportunities to assess reading and writing skills needed from E1-level 2 of the new functional skills specification. If you found this resource helpful then please see my page for more lessons, which are updated each week.

A lesson doing through some of the key skills needed for the creative writing section of the English exam

This is a fully differentiated lesson designed to improve students understanding of language and structure and how to develop a good piece of creative writing.

I put together this A3 sheet to help my students plan and write question five of paper 2 Writer’s viewpoints and Perspectives. I have tried to break it down to make planning easy, and included a punctuation task to help improve in this area. If you liked this resources, then please check out my shop for more.

This is a fully differentiated lesson using the theme of money as a focus. The lesson has both reading and writing elements which are ideal for functional skills level one or two. Their is a strong emphasis on writing and developing the skills to intelligently express and structure a response. All of my lessons are tried and tested, if you like this lesson then please visit my shop for more resources.

This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at developing students reading and writing skills for functional skills level one and two. The lesson focuses on the Grenfell Tower fire and enables the class to have a firm understanding between the differences of facts and opinions. All of my lessons are tried and tested. Please see my full bundle for more lessons.

This is a fully differentiated lesson focusing on the theme of art. The lesson helps students build on their skills in order to prepare them for the functional skills exam level one and level two. All of my lessons have been tried and tested. If you like this resource please check out my shop for complete bundles and also free resources.

This is a fully differentiated lesson focusing on the theme of politics. The lesson starts off by looking at how bias may be seen within the media. The lesson then gets the class to study several famous speeches, and the techniques that have made them so memorable. In addition, the lesson includes a writing task along with a modeled example. All of my lessons have been tried and tested. If you like this resource please check out my shop for complete bundles and also free resources.

This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at interview technique and expressing a letter of interest. The lesson is not only designed to help build skills towards the functional skills exam but also to improve interview and job seeking skills. The lesson has tasks to assess both the reading and writing elements of the exam. All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups. If you like this lesson then please see the full bundles and free resources available at my shop.

This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at our expectations of New Year Resolutions. The lesson has a strong emphasis on spelling and introduces students to different methods of spelling. The lesson has both a reading and writing focus helping your class to improve and practice a diverse range of techniques. All of my lessons are tried and tested with my own groups. If you like this lesson, please check out one of my bundles or free resources from my shop.

This is a fully differentiated booklet looking some of the key aspects of A Christmas Carol. The booklet explores several important themes of the story and also includes a creative writing task that guides students to producing their own piece of writing. All of my resources are tried and tested and have helped me with whole classes and also to provide tuition and individual support.

This is a fully differentiated guide to building skills for the paper one GCSE exam. All of my resources have been tried and tested, and work well as a full lesson or one-to-one support. This resource is also part of a bundle and has helped my students to prepare for their exams. The resource includes a link to the text.

This is a fully differentiated lesson building skills for both AQA and Edexcel GCSE examinations. This resource can be used as a full lesson and also works well for individual work. Each task is scaffolded with activities to guide students though evaluating the writers methods and the significants of punctuation for effect. All of my booklets are tried and tested and also come as part of a GCSE bundle.

This is a thirteen paged, fully differentiated booklet going over some of the key questions of the paper 1 exam. The booklet has been put together to help students gain an in-depth understanding of both language and structure and how to approach each exam question. All of my booklets have been tried and tested and work well with whole classes and on a one-to-one basis.

This is a fully differentiated workbook that is ideal for large classes or small groups. Each question is linked to the paper one exam-explorations in creative reading and writing. All of my workbooks have been tried and tested and have helped my students to improve.

This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at building key skills for level one and level two of the new functional skills reform. The lesson focuses on the topic of Black Friday and has will test both reading and writing skills