New English Functional Skills Teaching Resources

Teaching Functional Skills English (Writing)

English Teaching Resources: Functional Skills Writing - A Life Skill is a 114 slide PowerPoint Scheme of Work / Unit Plan with step by step lesson plans designed to teach English Functional Skills Writing at KS3 and KS4/GCSE and a booklet of 28 teaching worksheets. Resources include a eight lessons, each structured using the four part lesson plan (starter activity, introduction, development and plenary) all of which can be edited, personalised and differentiated to suit your teaching needs.  English Teaching Resources: Functional Skills Writing is a comprehensive and detailed teaching resource.  The scheme of work includes:

1. Lesson by lesson scheme of work overview
2. Explanation of how scheme of work fits into curriculum
3. What are Functional Skills?
4. Writing and modern communication
5. Why is writing a life skill?
6. Adapting writing to audience and purpose
7. Taking messages
8. How to make effective notes
9. Transforming notes into prose
10. Mind mapping
11. How to write a formal email
12. How to plan and structure a functional skills writing task
13. Self/peer ssessment using Functional Skills assessment criteria

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