Health, Social care, Early years
Literacy: Functional Skills English, General literacy / English
ICT: Developing, presenting and communicating information
Free tags: childrens, scheme, Story
Context: Health, Social care, Early years
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Lesson plan, Scheme of work
This is a scheme of work I have used in EBD schools to get the pupils engaged with English. It is a 7 week scheme of work aimed at between E3-L2, as it can be differentiated. I have also included the lesson plans that go with the scheme.
Editor’s note
Although written for a Key Stage 3/4 school setting this would work well as a way of embedding Functional English into a vocational childcare course or a family learning situation.
Literacy: Rt/L2.1, Rw/L2.3, Writing: text focus (composition)
Context: Health, Social care, Early years
Level: L2
Resource type: Reading comprehension, Writing prompts
A set of exercises based on an article from the BBC News website. This article would interest learners with teenage children.
There is a comprehension exercise and vocabulary exercises on antonyms and synonyms. Learners are also invited to write their views. Useful for those working towards Level 2 Certificate in Adult Literacy.
Numeracy: Functional Maths, General numeracy / maths, Money
Free tags: Family learning, Christmas
Context: Catering Food Nutrition, Health, Social care, Early years
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Investigation or project
I adapted this from Helen Lloyd’s Planning a school party (see below). I used her idea to develop a task that my students could manage on their own while I was doing a first aid course. This version includes an extra task about providing a Santa and gifts, and I also included some simple fraction questions.
I used Helen’s supermarket list for prices of party food etc.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - data handling, Functional Maths - number, N1/L1.7, N1/L1.10, HD1/L1.1
General: Generic resources for literacy, numeracy and beyond
Free tags: Drug awareness
Context: Health, Social care, Early years
Level: L1
Resource type: Discussion points, Informative presentation, Worksheet or assignment
This lesson is designed to embed adding and subtracting, ratio and proportion, etc. whilst looking at the important issue of alcohol consumption and units. Students are able to look at the RDA of alcohol consumption, binge drinking, etc. in the introductory PPT.
Literacy: Functional English - reading, Rs/E2.1, Rt/E2.1, Wt/E2.1, Functional English - writing
Context: Health, Social care, Early years
Level: E2
Resource type: Cloze exercise, Revision material, Wordsearch, Worksheet or assignment
A truly functional set of everyday reading and writing tasks based on medicine instructions. Activities include:
- reading comprehension questions
- matching instructions to the correct tube/bottle/packet
- writing instructions
- cloze exercise
- word search
Fully mapped to E2 Functional English and with extra teaching tips.
Literacy: Ww/E2.1, Ww/E3.1, Rw/E3.1, Rw/L1.2, Rw/L2.1, Ww/L1.1, Ww/L2.1
Context: Health, Social care, Early years
Level: E2, E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Sort or match cards, Worksheet or assignment
Beautiful set of resources for embedding spelling and vocabulary. Written for NVQ social care students but could also be useful in other vocational areas such as sport. A range of spelling and vocabulary activities on the topic of organs of the body.
Word and picture matching cards
Student reference sheet
Function matching cards
Look Say Cover Write Check spelling sheets (one for E2-E3, one for L1-2)
Fill in sheets
Literacy: Functional Skills English, General literacy / English
Free tags: Drug awareness
Context: Health, Social care, Early years, Independent living
Level: E2, E3
Resource type: Discussion points, Lesson plan, Poster, Reading comprehension, Sort or match cards, Worksheet or assignment
Everything you need for embedding literacy / Functional English into a teaching session that looks at drugs.
Learners explore the types types of drugs and also some of the origins of the problem. It covers types of text and some reading and spelling, including segmenting. There is also a ‘DARTs’ type exercise that explores how to treat a person who may become ill, instructions to re-order, and posters to laminate and discuss.
Literacy: Ww/E3.1, Wt/L1.6, Ww/L1.1, Functional English - writing
Context: Health, Social care, Early years
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Can you find all the incorrect homophones in the Bury Tots Daycare poster?
Two versions available.
1) Select the correct homophone from a choice of two or three (E3 spelling)
2) Find the incorrect homophones (no help!). Level 1 spelling and proof reading
Ideal for embedding literacy and Functional English in Early Years courses
Literacy: SLlr/E1.1, SLlr/E1.2, SLlr/E1.3, SLlr/E2.2, SLlr/E2.3
Context: Health, Social care, Early years, Leisure Travel Tourism, Politics & News items
Level: E1, E2
Resource type: Listening and/or speaking activity, Worksheet or assignment
Listening activities are few and far between but this fabulous set is ideal for, and fully mapped, to Entry 1 and 2 Functional English learners.
Based on four everyday listening events
- An announcement in a station
- A notice in a waiting room
- A news report
- A telephone conversation
Each provides practice listening for gist and detail in short explanations.
Literacy: Functional Skills English
Free tags: Drug awareness
Context: Health, Social care, Early years
Level: L2
Resource type: Discussion points, Investigation or project, Reading comprehension, Worksheet or assignment, Writing prompts
A fabulous and very topical study pack for Level 2 Functional English students. Covers all aspects of Functional English and is fully mapped to the Functional Skills criteria.
13 tasks covering reading, writing and discussion. Includes: spelling, dictionary work, formal and semi-formal letter writing, surveys and graphical information, reading comprehension, punctuation and paragraphing, and summarising. With teaching notes and several exemplar answers.
