Free Functional Skills and Skills for Life resources
Site Search
Good books, magazines & newspapers
Links to books, magazines and newspapers (paper based and electronic) suitable for teaching and supporting maths, English and ESOL from pre-Entry to Level 2.
*Gatehouse Books* publish a great selection of adult beginner reader books for use in adult (and post 14) Literacy and ESOL. Many have been written by adults who are developing their own literacy skills, for example Secrets by Sue Torr and Getting Better by Marie MacNamara. Gatehouse’s ever-increasing collection also includes audio cassettes and interactive CDs. Teaching packs and worksheets are available to accompany many of the books.
I like these books because they are suitable for adults, both native English speakers and ESOL students. Each book includes 30 topics – covering punctuation, spelling and grammar at a range of levels. Each section has initial tasks, followed by a reference section and further exercises (answers at the back!). Sentences, capital letters, full stops, adding -ed, -ing, irregular verbs, negative prefixes, colons, hyphens, homophones, confusing words, informal speech, formal English, various noun endings. etc. I got mine from Amazon.
More Mathematical Activities (Brian Bolt, Cambridge University Press 1985). Susan particularly recommends the divisibility investigation (no. 113). The activities are supposed to be for school children but much of the book contains quite advanced activities.
Maths the Basic Skills (June Haighton) is an excellent book from Nelson Thornes (ISBN 0-7487-7700-8). Covers all numeracy elements from E3 to L2 with clear explanations and lots of practice exercises (answers at back). Great for students studying for Level 1 or Level 2 numeracy as they often need to dip back to Entry 3 in some areas.
Since publication in 2004 the book has been fully updated (now up to the fifth edition)