I’m Kate Coldrick, a qualified teacher with over 25 years’ experience across mainstream and specialist settings. My work has included secondary teaching, Functional Skills and GCSE English tutoring, Montessori early years training, and teaching Key Stages 1 to 3 in a specialist ASD residential school. As an autistic teacher and parent of autistic children, I create autism-friendly and neurodivergent-accessible English resources for classroom and home learning.
I’m Kate Coldrick, a qualified teacher with over 25 years’ experience across mainstream and specialist settings. My work has included secondary teaching, Functional Skills and GCSE English tutoring, Montessori early years training, and teaching Key Stages 1 to 3 in a specialist ASD residential school. As an autistic teacher and parent of autistic children, I create autism-friendly and neurodivergent-accessible English resources for classroom and home learning.
A complete teaching resource on simple, compound, and complex sentences, ideal for Functional Skills English writing skills in classroom lessons, tutoring, or home education. Includes visual guides, scaffolded worksheets, interactive activities, teacher notes, parent/carer support, and full answer keys, mapped to the curriculum for Entry Level 2 through Level 2 learners.
I created this Sentence Types Teaching Pack to give learners a clear, structured way to understand, identify, and confidently use different sentence types. It works equally well for home education, small group work, and targeted interventions.
Inside you’ll find:
Teacher Notes & Guidance – step-by-step explanations with examples, teaching tips, and ideas for differentiation.
Parent/Carer Guide – friendly explanations without heavy grammar jargon, so anyone can support learning at home.
Sentence Types Visual Guide – clear colour-coded examples and a blank template so learners can build their own sentences.
4 fully scaffolded worksheets covering:
– Identifying sentence types and labelling subjects, verbs, and clauses.
– Rearranging complex sentences using “Snap and Swap”.
– Building better sentences with sentence frames and prompts.
– Fixing sentence errors (fragments, run-ons, and comma splices).
Interactive games and activities for hands-on grammar practice.
Functional Skills Mapping Guide – shows exactly how each activity supports the official standards at every level.
Full answer keys for every worksheet.
Perfect for building confidence, improving writing accuracy, and supporting learners to progress in Functional Skills English. All activities are clear, accessible, and adaptable – no clutter, no unnecessary jargon.
For ideas on how I use this resource in 1:1 and intervention settings, visit my website.
Save 50% when you buy this bundle compared to purchasing the four resources individually!
This bundle brings together four carefully designed resources to support the teaching of Functional Skills English Writing from Entry Level 1 through to Level 2. Perfect for tutors, teachers and support staff, the pack is mapped to the official subject content requirements and is designed to build skills progressively, while remaining clear and accessible for all learners.
Included in this bundle:
Progression of Skills in Functional Skills Writing – Editable Planning Tool (EL1 to L2)
– A comprehensive planning guide that clearly shows how writing skills develop across the levels, making it easy to track learner progress and plan next steps.
English Functional Skills – Writing: Sentence Types Teaching Pack (EL2 to L2)
– A visual and structured approach to teaching simple, compound and complex sentences, helping learners gain confidence with sentence variety and accuracy.
English Functional Skills - Writing - Audience and Purpose
– Practical activities to help learners understand how to adapt tone, structure and language to suit different audiences and purposes, a key requirement at Level 1 and Level 2.
Writing Sentences – Entry Level Practice for Functional Skills English (EL1 to EL3)
– Step-by-step sentence writing practice with clear models, explanations and prompts, helping learners build confidence, accuracy and control as they progress from simple sentences at Entry Level 1 to compound and complex sentences at Entry Levels 2 and 3.
Why this bundle?
Save 50% on the individual prices of the resources.
Covers the full writing progression from Entry Level 1 up to Level 2.
Aligned with Functional Skills subject content and assessment requirements.
Editable planning tool and ready-to-use teaching packs save time in preparation.
Clear, uncluttered layouts make the resources especially suitable for neurodivergent learners.
Ideal for use in colleges, training providers, or one-to-one tuition.
With this bundle, you’ll have everything you need to deliver engaging, structured and effective writing lessons that build skills, confidence and exam readiness - at half the price!
Writing Sentences - Entry Level Practice for Functional Skills English
I designed this sentence-writing resource to support learners working at Entry Levels 1, 2 and 3 in Functional Skills English. It’s ideal for building writing confidence, sentence control, and grammatical accuracy in a step-by-step way, and it’s especially helpful for learners who need structure, repetition, and clear examples.
What’s included:
Sentence models for each entry level, with simple explanations and example structures;
Targeted writing prompts with space for learner responses.
Practice tasks gradually increase in complexity:
Entry Level 1: one idea per sentence with capital letters and full stops;
Entry Level 2: simple compound sentences using and, but, so, because;
Entry Level 3: complex sentences using when, before, after, unless - with comma guidance.
This resource complements my Progression of Skills in Functional Skills Writing planning tool - or can be used on its own for focused practice.
Format:
✔ Ready-to-use printable PDF
✔ Ideal for one-to-one, classroom or home learning
For ideas on how I use this resource in 1:1 and intervention settings, visit my website.
A free teaching resource on simple, compound, and complex sentences for Functional Skills English writing skills in classroom teaching, tutoring, or home learning. Includes a visual guide, sample worksheet with answers, and extracts from teacher and parent/carer guidance to show how the full pack builds sentence structure skills.
This free sample is a taster of my full Sentence Types Teaching Pack, designed to help learners confidently identify, construct, and use sentence types. It’s suitable for Functional Skills English learners (Entry Level 2 to Level 2) and for home education.
In this free download you’ll get:
An extract from Teacher Guidance to see how the resource supports Functional Skills writing skills.
An extract from the Parent/Carer Guide – explaining sentence types without heavy grammar jargon.
The Sentence Types Visual Guide – clear, colour-coded examples plus a blank template for practice.
Worksheet 1: Label & Identify – Parts A & B, with sample answer key.
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The activities are simple to follow, with clear instructions and examples, making them ideal for classroom teaching or at-home support.
If you find this useful, you can get the full pack with 4 complete worksheets, games, answer keys, and Functional Skills mapping in my TES shop.
For ideas on how I use this resource in 1:1 and intervention settings, visit my website.
