This shop produces Functional Skills English resources, for both Reading & Writing. Resources are well-planned and top quality with a lot of attention to detail. Any questions, contact me via my Facebook page! (Link below).
Join our Functional Skills & GCSE English Language Discussion & Resources Group on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/groups/232341065224383
This shop produces Functional Skills English resources, for both Reading & Writing. Resources are well-planned and top quality with a lot of attention to detail. Any questions, contact me via my Facebook page! (Link below).
Join our Functional Skills & GCSE English Language Discussion & Resources Group on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/groups/232341065224383
This Reading session has been designed for Online delivery and has formative assessment tasks which are macro-enabled slides. Let your students take control in Teams and lead the tasks! There is also a summative Word document task which has text boxes for Online use but it can be written on, if printed.
Session plan included.
Carefully animated with step-by-step animations to aid delivery and will be part of my Neon Reading set - keep a look out for it!
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
This took a couple of days to plan and put together, so I’m really proud of it. It covers every major skill and links to my Online Course Multipack - with a task designed to follow each session I planned, in order to make sure that learning continues, outside the classroom.
Tasks include:
Letters
Blogs
Reports
Leaflets - Independent Task
Articles
Speeches
Skimming and Scanning
Information Retrieval
Purpose
Audience
Tone/Mood
Comprehension
Interpretation
Comparisons
I’ve also added a very basic Scheme of Work for my bundle - here…
A set of 3 macro-enabled slides to compliment the Neon Reading set and 1 Year Fully Planned Pack.
This has a 24 question answer-reveal quiz with general L1-2 questions.
A pair of macro, tile-moving, language features task.
A pair of 24 question quiz slides with unique questions and a catchphrase image beneath.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)
If you like these - then check out my new 1 year pack which includes the Neon Reading pack and full scheme of work for each of the 17 individual sessions. It also has initial assessments, a full year assessment book, a homework book and a revision book. All based on the new specification and original.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12487021
Title says it all really - distribute On or Offline as a starter or extension task. These words can be very confusing, so the more you know - the better your accuracy will be!
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)
This session covers Comparisons - it has two documents to work with and a number of formative tasks, some of which are macro-enabled slides which are interactive during the live presentation.
With the intent of using them Online, they are great for remote teaching, with step-by-step animations to aid delivery and questioning. Also great for use with a touch screen in classes.
It has a 2 page Word document hand out which has text boxes for Online use but which can also be printed. Session plan included.
Part of my upcoming Neon Reading set - two of which are already available in my shop.
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
This session covers basic Interpretation and i meant for Online delivery. It has formative tasks, some of which need to be edited during a live presentation and one has macro-enabled images which can be moves in the slide show. It would also be great in a classroom and on a touch screen.
Part of my Neon Reading Collection, this one has been visually matched and carefully animated, step-by-step, to aid delivery and questioning. Session plan included.
There is a link to GCSE, here, so this is aimed more at L2, however, there’s nothing like a stretch and challenge.
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
This session covers comprehension from the angle of basic understanding. It defines explicit and implicit information and ideas and has a number of formative assessment tasks - one of which is a marco-enabled slide with tiles which can be moved during the live presentation. Colourful and animated with step-by-step animations, in order to aid delivery and questioning.
This will be part a full set of ‘Neon’ Reading resources which have been created with intent of use Online but which would also be great in classrooms and on touch screens.
There is also a Word document hand out which can be printed but has text boxes for Online use. Session plan included.
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
This session is roughly 1.5hrs and covers Personal and Professional Blogs and defines them and Vlogs. It has been carefully animated and uses a new template.
There are 3 Macro-enabled matching/sorting tasks - see slides for brief instructions. These are great for teaching online and touch screens. There is also a summative task, examples and a number of informative slides.
Session plan included.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
This session covers reading nonfictional texts for both Purpose & Audience. It has a few formative tasks, some of which are marco-enabled slides which can be moved during the slideshow. See slide notes for brief intructions. Intended for Online delivery but would be great in a classroom on a touch screen.
Carefully animated with step-by-step revelations to aid delivery and questioning. There is a single hand out A4 page with text boxes for Online use or it could be printed and written into. Sometimes my students will photograph their work or scan it.
Session plan included.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
The new Functional Skills Reading, colourful Neon Collection, consists of 5 paid resources which match visually and have a number of matching Word document hand outs which can be used both on and offline.
All sessions have macro-enabled slides which can be altered during the presentation slide show and can be used with touch screens, in a classroom - when we go back.
It covers a range of topics:
Structure
Comparisons
Interpretation
Comprehension
Mood
Tone
Purpose
Audience
Each also has both formative and summative assessments.
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
This session covers Speech Writing with an example response - Marco-enable powerpoint slides with moveable highlighting strips to highlight language features and a summative task.
It has an embedded speech and it was intended for use online. Carefully animated with step-by-step animations and transitions, to make it visually impressive and aid delivery and questioning. It has also been created with the new spec FS quals in mind.
Session plan included.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
This is a quick Reading session, covering Identifying and Retrieving basic information. It was made with the intention to be used online and has a summative assessment which has been created on Microsoft Forms - as a self-marking quiz.
There is a second starter task, on the first slide - now Marco-enabled with moveable tiles. See instructions in slide notes.
Session plan included. Aimed at E3-L1 - This can be used as a quick into to Skimming and Scanning.
Upload the starter task wordsearch, to Microsoft Whiteboard and collaborate with your group!
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**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
This session covers Report writing and is linked to the new FS spec. It has been carefully animated with stunning graphics and movements and has an example report, formative tasks which include a Macro-enabled labelling task (tiles can be moves in ppt show, see slide notes for brief instructions).
It’s based on one of my previous sessions, which is doing quite well - so I thought I’d offer a variation/revision version.
Aimed for online delivery but would also be great in a classroom.
Session plan included.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
This session covers reviews, using a multitude of examples - it has Marco-enabled tasks (see slide notes for brief instructions). Tiles can be moved in the slideshow, without the need to access the edit screen.
There is also a summative task and it has been carefully animated to compliment delivery. Linked to the new spec FS.
Session plan included.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
This session covers informal emails and introduces the mark schemes for Composition and Accuracy. It has been carefully animated and structured to deliver, mainly, online but will work well in classrooms, too.
It encourages the use of certain punctuation marks and language features by providing a task with a checklist.
Session plan included.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)
This is an inclusive booklet of 12 assessment tasks - 6 Reading and 6 Writing.
They have been based on the new specification and there is an online version with text boxes blank and ready to type into.
Covers all the major skills and exam question types and also has a separate Reading & Writing Initial Assessment Task. There is also a 19 slide ppt presentation which goes with it - to introduce and discuss each assessment with a visual display - it also has a full slide of answers for the final assessment, which is the most complex.
It would be worth spending some time going over the Reading assessments to
spot the answers for the basic ones.
This session covers writing instructions and has been carefully animated with high-quality images and Macro-enabled slides allowing for live ‘word magnet’ tasks which are great for teaching Online and using a touch screen, in classrooms.
Writing instructions has appeared on the new FS exams and is a nice easy topic to get into the subject. There is also detailed session plan - with a slide-by-slide set of comments.
**Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
For preview of the standard - see this free Article Writing Session:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-functional-skills-english-article-writing-interactive-session-12483185
Although this pack doesn’t cover Article Writing - so often focused upon, here; it covers newer spec topics for writing.
These include:
Writing -
Instructions
Blogs
Reviews
Informal Emails
Formal Letters
Formal Reports
Speeches
Narrative Accounts
All but one have Macro enabled slides which have moveable tabs - these have been great for online, remote learning - particularly with use in Microsoft Teams. They will also be great on touchscreens, in classrooms.
Join the discussion! Like our Facebook page and join our group…share your experiences and ask any questions:
***Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **
We are all having to adapt our methods for the online world. This can be a difficult process and so I thought I’d share one or two things my colleagues and I have been working on.
This links to any specification but has been created with C&G in mind.
Hope it’s useful! =-)
This is my first E3 session and so I thought I’d give this one away as a sample.
It is a fully animated, macro-enabled session, with slides that are interactive and can be used with a large touchscreen. Get students to take turns, leading the activities!
It covers both skimming and scanning, alphabetising word lists, identifying explicit ideas and some basic interpretation. Each topic has a couple of formative tasks.
Also includes a 2 page, A4 hand out.
Enjoy!
