Rw/E2.2
Literacy: Ww/E2.2, Ww/E3.2, Rw/E2.2, Rw/E3.5
ESOL: ESOL Rw/E3.5a, ESOL Ww/E3.1a
Context: Catering Food Nutrition, Sport
Resource type: Sort or match cards
Level: E2, E3
This is a resource for teaching compound words to mixed ability groups. There are five different word match activities and two help sheets.
I use the first two activities, sports and food, with E1-2 learners. Depending on their ability you can either give the learners both topics at once or give them one at a time to make the activity easier. For very low level students I’d give the learners one topic at a time and a help sheet.
Literacy: Ww/E2.2, Ww/E3.2, Prefixes, suffixes & plurals, Rw/E2.2, Rw/E3.1, Rw/L1.3, Ww/L1.1
ESOL: ESOL Rw/E2.3a, ESOL Rw/E3.1a, ESOL Rw/E3.5a, ESOL Rw/L1.1a, ESOL Rw/L1.3a, ESOL Ww/E2.1b, ESOL Ww/E3.1a, ESOL Ww/L1.1a
Level: E2, E3, L1
Resource type: Flash cards, Sort or match cards
Root word family cards are two sets of flash cards that can be used to visualise the concept of root words to entry level and L1 students.
The entry level cards contain a number of root words and their word families, with a picture representation of each word. The level one sheet contains a higher level of vocabulary and the pictures have been removed.
Lesson Ideas
- The cards could be given to the students to group into word families.
Literacy: Rw/E2.2, Rw/E3.5
ESOL: ESOL Rw/E2.3a, ESOL Rw/E3.5a
Level: E2, E3
Resource type: Game, Quiz
This is a card game that tests students understanding and knowledge of root words. The game can be played as a whole class or in small groups but works best if the tutor sits in on the game in order to support the students and question their answers.
There are 12 cards in the pack which includes a variety of questions including true or false and spot the root word.
Pre-entry: Ww/M8.1, Wt/M8.4, Ww/M8.2, Rw/M8.2, Rw/M8.3
Literacy: Apply strategies to spell correctly, Rw/E1.1, Rw/E2.2
Context: Education, Independent living
Resource type: Flash cards, Sort or match cards, Worksheet or assignment
Level: M8, E1
A flexible set of exercises based on common classroom items such as pens, pencils. folders, hole punch, etc. Can be used in a variety of ways – with or without learner support. Includes worksheets and flash / matching cards. Detailed preEntry mapping information. First used at the start of the academic year with a new preEntry class.
Literacy: Fiction, Ww/E3.1, Functional English - reading, Rs/E2.2, Rt/E2.1, Rt/E3.1, Rt/E3.4, Rt/E3.8, Rw/E2.2, Ws/E2.1, Functional English - writing
General: Dyslexia support
Context: Art Film Media Music TV
Resource type: Cloze exercise, Crossword, Flash cards, Quiz, Reading comprehension
Level: E2, E3
A set of resources, written for an Entry 2-3 literacy group of young adults who were ‘into’ the Twilight books and films.
The resources may also be useful in Functional English classes as they are media based and can be adapted e.g. used as the basis for letter writing to an editor or newspaper, etc.
Includes: article and related quiz/comprehension questions, crossword (including a version with arrows to help dyslexic learners), cloze exercise, plus related word lists/cards for the cloze exercise and crossword.
Literacy: Fiction, Rt/E1.1, Rt/E2.1, Rw/E1.2, Rw/E2.2
Resource type: Reading comprehension
Level: E1, E2
A lovely Entry 1 story with comprehension questions, cloze exercise, word search, phonics work and more. Written in order to adapt the school-based Letters & Sounds reading scheme (available free – for details see attached teaching notes) for adults. The story and tasks cover the following phonemes: ng / sh/ ch/ th/ ow/ ear/ ee/ igh/ ur/ or/ ea/ oo/ ar/ er/ air/ ai/ oi/ ll.
Literacy: Rs/E1.1, Rt/E1.1, Rt/E1.2, Rt/E2.1, Rt/E2.2, Rt/E2.4, Rw/E1.2, Rw/E1.3, Rw/E2.2, Rw/E2.4, Ws/E1.1, Ws/E1.2
Free tags: May Day
Level: E1, E2
Resource type: Reading comprehension, Worksheet or assignment
A wonderful set of reading materials for Entry 1-2. Short illustrated text about May Day traditions followed by 2 pages of comprehension exercises. Plus May Day poster, letter and calendar for further reading and purpose of text work.
Literacy: Rw/E2.2
ESOL: ESOL Rw/E2.3a
Level: E2
Resource type: Informative presentation
A highly visual phonics PPT focusing on the ‘long e’ phoneme associated with the grapheme /ee/. Great for beginning E1-E2 readers in ESOL and Literacy classes.
Literacy: Rw/E2.2, Rw/E3.5
Resource type: Informative presentation
Level: E2, E3
A clear and straightforward introduction to this topic for Entry level learners.
Literacy: Ww/E1.3, Ww/E2.2, Rt/E2.1, Rw/E1.2, Rw/E2.2
Resource type: Crossword, Worksheet or assignment
Level: E1, E2
Mary and Sam / tch words – read the story (a great twist at the end!), highlight and practise writing the -tch words (also introduces -ed and -ing suffixes) and then complete a crossword.
