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Eight writing practice tasks for Functional Skills English.

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An English reading comprehension task that will improve learners skimming and scanning skills.

A great starter for a Functional Skills English Lesson

Get your learners to create their own magical creature to add to ‘Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them’ book. They will start by looking at an extract from the book and doing a task on this. Then they will begin to create their own creature. Please note that this PPT and Worksheet was not my original idea and I used FREE resources that I found on TES and the internet to put into a PPT. I adapted this PPT and created the worksheet myself using these ideas. Thank you for sharing your resources with other education professionals.

Learners are asked to research the context of the novel in order to get some background information on the novel.

A lesson so learners can understand the five parts of narrative structure. They will read this short story before breaking it down in 5 parts. Following this they will then begin to plan part 2 of this short story.

A lesson introducing Unseen Poetry and what to expect in the exam paper. It explains to learners how to annotate a poem using the SMILE technique and they will analyse Plath’s poem ‘The Mirror.’ Please note: I created this PPT using mostly my own ideas, however, to create this lesson, I have also adapted/ pasted some information from other ‘FREE download’ poetry resources that I found on TES. Thankyou for sharing your work.

Improve your learners’ reading skills with this skimming and scanning exercise.

A fifteen question multiple choice quiz. Students will be given a each from each poem and must write down on the white board which poem it is from. Answers are given on the PPT once they have answered the question. I also have a sencond version of this quiz which you can download for free: /teaching-resource/-12649377

A fun lesson starter to see how much students remember from chapters 1 - 15 .

A one lesson PPT for learners which shows them how to answer both Unseen Poetry questions. At the end of the PPT, the learners then have 45 minutes to complete their practice test. *Please note: some of the information on this PPT was sourced from free poetry powerpoints on TES. Thankyou for sharing your work.

A fun task that gets learners to draw characters from the writers description and to recognize adjectives.

A worksheet to introduce KS3 or KS4 students to what to initially look for when they first read a poem. There are questions on the sheet to prompt them to read the poem and then answer the questions including: What the poem is about Why certain words and phrases are used What the mood and atmosphere of the poem is Who the narrator of the poem is. I have purposely left out the title of the poem, as I wanted my group to guess what the object ( the mirror) is.

2 English activities. I sourced the language technique grid from TES and the article from The Daily Mail and edited them to make an English activity. Get students to locate the language devices from the article and then create a descriptive story or article by choosing a funny headline as a prompt!

How to read and annotate the text before moving on to answer the exam questions 1- 4.

This is a task that I have created. Students will use their skills to rewrite an informal letter into a formal letter.

I created this PPT as my students were struggling with recalling quotes from the anthology. I found four different exam style questions and decided to make this task. It helps them to think on their feet when choosing a poem to compare theirs to, to see examples of questions that they could get in their exam and also tests them on whether they can recall quotes under pressure. I asked them to do the following: Read the exam question and think of a poem that you can compare this poem to. Write down why you would use this poem as a comparison. Read the question again and write down one quote you would use in your response when comparing these poems.

A PPT and worksheet that I used to introduce the KS3 class to poetry. I have started off with an easy poem and then throughout the lesson taught them skills in how to analyse the poem. Some information contained in this slide has been taken from free resources available on TES. Thank you for sharing your resources.

Identify the adjectives in the following short story.