Adult Basic Skills Resource Centre for students and tutors. Home Page

Adult Basic Skills Resource Centre for students and tutors
1000+ free PDF Skills for Life resources available on this privately owned site, used as a resource in my literacy and numeracy classes at Abingdon & Witney College.

I hope students and tutors around the UK, and beyond, will also find it useful. KEY: Literacy ESOL General Numeracy / ICT

14/11/09 East is East from Jane Harbord, PPDG, Dudley. Apostrophes 3 linked PPTs from Alison Round. New Year's writing activity from Karen Bruin. Christmas tree homophones from Sarah Seddon, Bolton Community College. Edward Elgar E2 ESOL from Janet Kinsey & Will Zawadzki, Abingdon & Witney College. Bad hair day from Ruth Uprichard, Groundwork, Oldham & Rochdale. Britain's Brickies, Hairdressing apprentices & World Champion Hairdresser all from Grace Labode, North West Kent College. Questioning for understanding from Jeff Moran, mindsounds.com. Conjunctions from Gill Clark, Monmouthshire Adult & Community Learning.

$Practise fractions (E3) - shading tenths and hundredths, working out fractions of a day$ Business bank balance game L2 negative numbers / place value

17/11/09 Pudsey Collection E3 Functional Maths from Anna Lister, Lakes College. Boxes from Ruth Read, WEA, East Midlands. Internet searching from Jane Harbord, PPDG, Dudley. Decimals in care jobs from Lauren McNamara, The Oldham College. Perimeter, area, volume poster from Malcolm Hill, System Training, Carlisle. Practise fractions (E3) & Practise percentages (L1) both from Ciaran OBriain, East Surrey College. Business bank balance game from Judith White, Somerset Skills & Learning. Working in a charity shop from Olubunmi Coker, Workfirst, Nuneaton. L1 practice test from Dave Clapham, Park Lane College. E3 Multiple choice practice test from Ruth Colclough, Newcastle College. E1-E3 & L1-2 Numeracy diagnostics from Dave Norgate, Bromley Adult Education College.

Free curriculum-linked resources (start here if you are new to the site!)	Comments page 13/10/09 & supporters' list 15/02/09 Read about this site and join the mailing list
* Copyright for each resource remains with the author. Resources must not be used by any person or organisation for profit or gain without the express permission of the individual contributor. *
What's New 17/11/09 Picture preview 17/11/09 Numeracy resources 17/11/09 mapped to Adult Numeracy Curriculum (E1 Number E2 Number, E3 Number L1 Number, L2 Number, MSS (all), Data Handling (all), pre-Entry Numeracy). Literacy resources 14/11/09 mapped to Adult Literacy Curriculum (pre-Entry, E1, E2, E3, L1, L2) ESOL resources Entry 1 Entry 2 08/11/09 Topical & seasonal literacy & numeracy resources 17/11/09 Contextualised resources - construction, care, cars, horticulture, hairdressing, etc. 08/11/09 Study skills, exam tips, general teaching resources 15/10/09 ICT Skills for Life and CLAIT resources 14/10/09 Quick teaching ideas 13/08/09 Interactive Schemes of Work L1-2 Numeracy, E1 Literacy.	Search skillsworkshop.org	Contact me if you need help or want to contribute resources. Contributors receive free editable Word versions in exchange for their resources.
	Recommended EXTERNAL LINKS 1 Embed ILT 10/08/09 ELLLO English Speaking (L1-2 ESOL) 2 Printable resources Free maths posters at Skillsheets 10/11/09 3 Useful links for tutors 10/11/09 Contextualised literacy and numeracy resources: Care Skillsbase for adult care workers and Skills to Go from the Office of Fair Trading.