Adult Basic Skills Resource Centre for students and tutors
1200 free Functional Skills resources (Functional Maths, Functional English) and Skills for Life resources available on this privately owned site, used as a resource in my literacy, numeracy and Functional Skills 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

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Hung parliament Venn diagram. How little vote do you need to become a PM? Polling Station walk-through & easy-read guide to voting

Football season 2010-11 Premier League Functional English E3-L2 Octopus predicts World Cup result (Level 1 reading comprehension and vocabulary) E3-L2 Quick Reads resources for Chickenfeed and Sun Book of Short Stories England's World Cup? E2-3 reading, discussion, writing, sentence structure Wimbledon E2-3 comprehension and alphabetical ordering - updated for 2010 season Functional Skills Business project E3-L2 Functional English, maths and ICT Capello Gerrard World Cup Apostrophes (L1-2) Punctuation crossword for Level 2 consolidation Visual spelling skills - words with al, all and ea  Ask Anne - share a problem. E1-E2 Functional English tasks World Cup Entry 3 Literacy - with Wayne Rooney comprehension

30/07/10 Premier League 2010-11 Season (Functional English and literacy): reading comprehension, writing, discussion and word games from Matt Barnes. Octopus predicts World Cup result from David Pike, Vine Trust, Cardiff. Quick Reads resources from Ruth Read, WEA, West Midlands. England's World Cup E2-3 from Matthew Brooke, Parenta E2E. Wimbledon E2-3 from Christine Robinson, Middlesbrough Adult Education. Functional Skills Business project (also covers Maths) from Matt Barnes. Capello-Gerrard World Cup apostrophes from Rachel Emmett, Hackney Community College. Punctuation Crossword from Celia Rooks, City of Sunderland College. Red Nose Funct.English, Extending sentences & Visual spelling all from Hazel Hughes, Selly Oak Trust School. Ask Anne - Share a Problem Funct. English from Anne Candan. 'Ch' words (ESOL) from Sonia Carroll, City and Islington College

Premier League 2010-11 Season Functional Maths E3-L2 The UK 2010 Budget Lesson plan for E2-L2 Maths / personal finance E3-L1 Payslip activity L1 Handling numbers revision (N1/N2) E2-E3 Handling numbers revision (N1/N2) World Cup quiz  PPT (Numeracy and general knowledge) for all levels Level 1 multiple choice fraction questions Level 2 Multiple choice fraction questions Wimbledon statistics - L1 fractions, percentages and data handling. Great for underpinning L1 Functional Maths Instructions for World Cup Top Trumps Cards (L1-2 decimals, fractions, percentages) Working with Equations - L1-2 algebra / substitution  

30/07/10 Premier League 2010-11 Season (Functional Maths and numeracy): league tables, goal averages, data handling, buying a season ticket, pitch sizes, ground capacity and more! The June 2010 Budget lesson plan and Wimbledon statistics from Leia Fee, Swansea ITeC.  E3-L1 Payslips from Jayne Summerbell, Hereward College. Level 1 and Entry handling numbers revision from Valerie Adams. L1 & L2 multiple choice practice questions from Ruth Read, WEa East Midlands. World Cup Quiz (maths & general knowledge) from Susan Kindred, Oakfield School and College, Hindley. World Cup Top Trumps cards from Roger Willoughby, West Berkshire Training Consortium.   Working with equations from Paul Hanby, Mid Kent College.

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Functional Skills resources (all areas and levels) - a complete list.

Functional Maths and Numeracy resources 30/06/10 mapped to Adult Numeracy & Functional Maths Criteria (E1 Number E2 Number, E3 Number L1 Number, L2 Number, MSS (all), Data Handling (all), pre-Entry Numeracy).
Functional English and Literacy resources 30/07/10 mapped to Adult Literacy & Functional English criteria (pre-Entry, E1, E2, E3, L1, L2ESOL resources Entry 1 Entry 2 07/06/10

Topical & seasonal resources 30/06/10. Contextualised resources 30/06/10 construction, employment, hairdressing, etc. Study skills, exam tips, general resources 25/06/10

ICT Skills for Life and CLAIT resources 13/12/09 Interactive Schemes of Work

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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 Useful links for tutors 30/06/10 Skilled To Go (from the Office of Fair Trading) has loads of new resources on recognising scams and buying/selling a car. Masses of Functional Skills (FS) external links.

2 Embed ILT links 3 Printable resource links


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