The Science of Reading blog is well worth a look - especially the Tuesday Teaching Tips.
For example, the entry for Tuesday April 25th included a useful morpheme chart & a lovely idea of pulling out & deeply analysing specific vocabulary over a period of several days (in this case the word 'siphon'!).
This is lovely and could be very useful as a prompt for Entry Level Functional English reading, writing and discussion activities. 👍👑 . The link below points to the two main easy-read articles written after the death of Queen Elizabeth II. In addition, there are many other topical easy read news articles here: https://www.unitedresponse.org.uk/easy-read/
This blog offers plenty of valuable information such as:
A complete and up-to-date guide about the Maths GCSE exams that students can use to inform themselves and get ahead in preparing for the said exam.
A Functional Skills English project, hosted on Padlet. Students are challenged to host an industry award evening. They must source, decide upon and hire the venue; invite the guests as well as write a speech and report on the events of an incident-packed evening.
Aimed at high Level 1 and Level 2 Functional English learners – Padlet allows for the resources to be accessed online or downloaded and offered as paper-based tasks.
A project-based reources hosted on Padlet. Aimed at constructions learners, it challenges them to host an awards night. They must source, choose and hire a suitable venue as well as write a speech and report on the evening’s most notable events.
Writing skills covered: formal letter writing; report writing; speech and article writing & invitation writing.
Padlet allows access to the resources either directly on the site or downloaded for printing as paper-based task sheets.
A short project designed to encourage group work, negotiation and some creative thinking. Learners must invent and company and a product to market.
The three tasks explore persuasive language techniques through: advertising, accessing ‘crowd funding’ & speech writing.
Aimed at high Level 1 & Level 2 Functional English earners, but could be an ideal opportunity for peer-tutoring in mixed-ability groups.
Padlet allows access to the resources either directly on the site or downloaded for printing as paper-based task sheets.
My name is Gemma. I teach Employability Skills, Adult Literacy and Numeracy and Functional Skills to learners aged 16+. The learners that I teach include people with academic and social barriers to education and employment,learning difficulties and limited or broken English.
I have created this blog as a way of sharing lesson ideas and resources with my direct colleagues and the teaching world at large
Chris is a retired lecturer from The Manchester College. His blog is no longer updated (last post was in 2009) but is still a useful and fascinating source of useful information with a personal slant.
