Adult Literacy, Functional English, and GCSE Resources

Your students will never look at these words – swim, wonderful, capital, answer, question, postcard and stamp – in the same way again! Used as starter or plenary activity in an Entry 3- Level 2 literacy class.

Each screen has a type-in box and animations and is ideal for use with a data projector and a cordless keyboard. Each screen focuses on different aspects of the ‘word of the week’ – it could be word classes, suffixes, origins, spelling tips, etc.

Live the lotto dream is a fabulous project that covers many E3/L1 literacy and numeracy elements. You win the lottery, buy a flat and have to furnish it from the Argos catalogue! Learn about budgeting, working with areas and floor plans, bank statements, rounding, estimating, and much more. Everything must be written up as a comprehensive report with a clear conclusion (a great guidance page on report writing is included in the resource).

Fabulous set of 18 interactive homophone ‘drop-down’ spelling worksheets. Each worksheet explains when to use each homophone – with examples, space to type your own sentences, cloze sentences and an answer/reference sheet. Each worksheet includes 10, 15 or 20 cloze sentences.
All common homophones, and several less-well-known pairs, are covered. See separate file list below.

Level 2 reading practice: an interesting text about the history of the Easter egg with accompanying multiple choice exam style questions. Great for revision and as a focus for further discussion and activities.
Note: for additional comprehension questions on this text please also download Stella Jales’ ‘Easter skimming and scanning’ (see below).

A short Level 2 text about visiting an art gallery. The accompanying multiple choice exam style questions focuses on root words, prefixes, suffixes and synonyms. Great for revision.

Wonderful multi-sensory games and activities for Entry level students (and higher level students with dyslexia).

A self check PowerPoint that uses hyperlinks to show learners whether their answers are right or wrong. Can be used alone or in conjunction with Jenny’s Recognising Homophones PPT (see below) that covers 30 homophone pairs.

A fabulous multi-sensory punctuation game. 8 large cards to laminate plus teaching ideas. Great for mixed ability classes.

Really useful, short but very focused interactive PowerPoint where learners can type in the beginnings of words and then check their answers. Great for all spelling student especially dyslexic learners.

Interactive Word worksheet where learner selects correct word from drop down menus. Focuses on correct use of gone, go, went and has, had, have. 10 cloze questions.