Worksheet(s) or assignment

A traditional worksheet or assignment for printing on paper. Many can also be displayed successfully on an interactive whiteboard for group work.

A huge 15 page resource that had a major facelift in 2007. Covers parts of speech (nouns and verbs), imperatives, spelling rules, words with more than one meaning, spelling strategies and much more. With extensive teaching notes, student aims sheet, and ideas for contextualisation and using as a multisensory resource.

Level
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
Level 1
English
Prefixes, suffixes & plurals
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies
Ws/E3.1
Rw/L1.3
Rw/E3.5
Rw/E2.3
AL Rw/E2.2 Recognise high frequency words & words with common spelling patterns
Adult Literacy Rs/E3.2 Use implicit & explicit knowledge of word types/order to help with decoding/predicting meaning
Rs/E2.3 check plausible meanings of sentences when decoding unfamiliar words
AL Ww/E3.2 Use phonic knowledge to help spelling
Ww/E2.2

An extensive 13 page resource that had a major facelift in 2007. Covers parts of speech (nouns and verbs), spelling rules, writing sentences, vocabulary, adding and removing suffixes and much more. With extensive teaching notes, student aims sheet, and ideas for using as a multisensory resource.

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Level 2
English
Prefixes, suffixes & plurals
AL Ww/E3.2 Use phonic knowledge to help spelling
Adult Literacy Rs/E3.2 Use implicit & explicit knowledge of word types/order to help with decoding/predicting meaning
Adult Literacy Rs/L1.1 Use implicit and explicit grammatical knowledge
Rw/E3.5
Rw/L1.3
Ws/E3.1
Adult Lit Ws/L1.1 Write in complete sentences
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies
AL Ww/L2.1 Spell technical words

Major update - October 2021. 

A practical and easy way to introduce decimals from Entry Level 2 (1 decimal place) onwards. Written in 2001, I have now updated the Functional Skills mapping and removed the old Adult Numeracy Core Curriculum references. Two new gap-fill charts for E2-E3 and L1-L2 , and a range of new blank charts for whole numbers and decimals of all sizes!  Also useful for:

Level
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Level 2
Maths
FM Context free underpinning
FM E2.2 Read, write, order & compare numbers up to 200
FM E2.11 Read, write & use decimals to one decimal place
FM E3.1 Count, read, write, order & compare numbers up to 1000
FM E3.8 Read, write & use decimals up to two decimal places
FM L1.1 Read, write, order & compare large numbers (up to one million)
FM L1.3 Multiply & divide whole numbers & decimals by 10, 100, 1000
FM L1.10 Read, write, order & compare decimals up to three decimal places
FM L2.1 Read, write, order & compare positive & negative numbers of any size
FM L2.9 Order, approximate & compare decimals

Practical and easy way to introduce decimals / money. One partially completed chart with examples and a blank chart for student to enter their own sums of money.

Level
Entry Level 3
Maths
AN MSS1/E3.1 Add & subtract money using decimal notation
MSS1/E3.2
AN N2/E3.3