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

We hope students and tutors around the UK will also find it useful. KEY:  Literacy  ESOL   Numeracy   ICT - Contextual - General

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TOPICAL, SEASONAL (May Day, St George's Day, Hired or Fired, etc.) and EXAM revision resources - visit our new topical resources page!

 Planning a party - problem solving, adding and multiplying money (Level 1) Selling DVDs - Money based assignment for E3-L1 Averages poster - how to find the mean, mode, median and range. L1-2 Little Miss Dotty Decimals- PPT. L1-2. Working with decimals Level 2 - equivalents fill-in chart for fractions, decimals and percentages Mean, mode, median, range worksheet L1/2. Five questions on each topic Five Entry 1 food group word searches - fruit & veg, carbohydrates, fish & meat, etc. E1-E2 ESOl - Lit handwriting practice and blank handwriting paper Daft Burglars E1-2 ESOL and Literacy comprehension Entry 1 ESOL and Literacy spelling and sentence building tasks Catching crooks with Xbox 360s! E1-2 ESOL and Literacy comprehension Entry 1 ESOL writing practice - Postcards, Notes and Messages. 8 pages with sample messages.
  Describing people - a writing framework. Scaffolded descriptive writing activity for E2-E3 Entry 1 Love Hearts reading comprehension (to accompany our Exisitng E2-L2 Love Hearts resource) in the style of an OCR E1 reading assignment Rooms of the House - serise of 6 graded interactive ICT worksheets based on different rooms. Covers E1 Lit and ESOL reading (key words & vocabulary) and E1-2 ICT (changing colour, format and style of text, dragging text and inserting clipart). Entry 1-2 May Day comprehension and purpose of text materials Remembering tricky spellings - two PPTs each with 5 tricky words and 6 spelling strategies. L1-2 Proof reading a real Cub Scout newsletter. L1-2 L1 May Day Rally reading comprehension and L1-2 writing task St George's Day discussion actvity. Written for E2-E3 but also suitable for higher levels Draw my picture - Entry 2 listening to and following instructions Entry 2 discussion and conversation skills - active worksheet
08/05/08 Mean, mode, median, range worksheet from Jan Long. Equivalents fill-in Excel worksheet from Gary Collinson, Support Training Ltd. Miss Dotty decimals from Taz Kausar-Javaid, The Oldham College. Averages poster from Lynsey Carragher. Pirated DVDs E3-L1 money from Debbie Ellis. Plan a party L1 money from Ruth from Manchester. Entry 2-3 number skills and Perimeter, area and volume from Julie Hobson, Northern Learning Trust. 08/05/08 Draw my picture S&L activity from Julie Hobson, Northern Learning Trust. E2 Conversation & discussion skills from Karen Beasley. Belated St George's Day discussion activity from Trish Bradwell, Colchester Institute.  May Day L1 reading & writing assignment and May Day E1-2 reading & purpose of text both from Chris Robinson, Stockton Adult Education. Proofreading a Cub Scout newsletter from Janet Chapman, The Friary Community Education Centre, Cardiff. Remembering tricky spellings (2 sets), Sentence structure & grammar all from Gill Moore, Tamworth & Lichfield College. E1 Love Hearts Lit / Practice OCR assignment from Moira Garland, Park Lane College. Describing people writing framework from Vicky Douglas, Northern Learning Trust. 
18/04/08 E1 ESOL writing practice (Trinity style), Catching crooks with Xbox 360s, Daft burglars E1-2 comprehension, E1 Sentence building, E1 Food group wordsearches, Rooms of the house - 6 ICT worksheets for E1-2 ESOL/Lit/ICT and Hand-writing practice & writing paper all from Ginette Kriche.
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Numeracy worksheets mapped to UK Adult Numeracy Curriculum (E1 Number E2 Number E3-L2 number, MSS, Data Handling, pre-Entry Numeracy). 08/05/08
Literacy and ESOL worksheets  mapped to UK Adult Literacy Core Curriculum (pre-Entry, E1, E2, E3, L1, L2)  ESOL Entry 1 ESOL Entry 2 08/05/08

Topical & seasonal 03/05/08. Contextualised resources - hairdressing, construction, etc. 01/03/08

Study skills, exam tips, general teaching resources 15/02/08

ICT Skills for Life and CLAIT resources 13/04/08
Lesson plans and interactive schemes of work 31/07/07. Quick teaching ideas 14/10/07

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