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Key features of good essays is not only an excellent piece of study skills advice (for Level 2 students and beyond) but is also an ideal text for feeding into Wordle and creating paired sentence writing exercises.

Level
Level 2
English
Adult Literacy: writing composition (Wt)
General
Study Skills and General Teaching

Written for ESOL students with good basic numeracy skills who were taking the E3 multiple choice test without attending numeracy classes. However these notes are brilliant for any Entry 3 numeracy student.
Note you can read more about the E3 multiple choice tests on our related blog post

Level
Entry Level 3
Maths
Data Handling
Common Measures
Number
ESOL
General ESOL
General
Exam tips and help

This ‘random number generator’ is an open ended resource that the author originally designed to use for mental maths (adding or taking away 10 from the displayed number). It was later used it as part of a ‘Question of Sport’ quiz (in the spelling round!): learners choose a picture and then spell the ‘random’ number that appears: 49, 32, 28, 46, 67, 55, 21, 74 and 13 (these be edited to suit and could also be linked to any set of numbered, pre-prepared quiz questions on any topic).

Level
M8
Entry Level 1
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Level 2
Maths
AN N1/E2.1 Count reliably to 100, count on in 2s and 10s
AN N1/E2.2 Read, write, order & compare numbers to 100; odd even nos.
General
Generic resources for literacy, numeracy and beyond
Context
Sport and fitness

Written for ESOL students with good basic numeracy skills who were taking the test without attending numeracy classes. However these notes are brilliant for any Level 1 numeracy student (who should also refer to the E3 tips below).

Level
Level 1
Maths
Data Handling
General numeracy / maths
Measures shape and space
Number
ESOL
General ESOL
General
Exam tips and help

Written for ESOL students with good basic numeracy skills who were taking the test without attending numeracy classes. However these notes are brilliant for any Level 2 numeracy student (who should also refer to the Level 1 notes – see below).

Level
Level 2
Maths
Data Handling
General numeracy / maths
Measures shape and space
Number
ESOL
General ESOL
General
Exam tips and help

A great project that covers many L1/2 numeracy elements. You win the lottery, buy a nursery and have to furnish it from catalogues and/or Internet sites.
Learn about budgeting, displaying data, 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).

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Level 2
English
Functional English - writing
General literacy / English
Maths
Functional Maths
General numeracy / maths
General
Generic resources for literacy, numeracy and beyond
Context
Health, Social care, Early years

A great way show any Skills for Life learner how to play this popular puzzle and makes a good warm up activity. Use to provoke general discussion on logic-steps and how puzzles help to sharpen the mind and increase brain activity!

Level
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Level 2
Maths
General numeracy / maths
General
Generic resources for literacy, numeracy and beyond

Create signs and student lists – plus useful XP DTP tips – two really useful step by step worksheets for creating a) clever signs with some very amusing real life examples!; b) alphabetical student lists in tables.
Plus a super 1 page collection of quick DTP tips / shortcuts for Windows XP. Originally used for training teachers on an NUT ICT training class but suitable for any L2 ICT / CLAIT students.

Level
Level 2
ICT
Level 1 and 2 CLAIT / ECDL
General
Staff development

Two day intensive workshops for staff taking literacy and numeracy tests provides outline plans and background information on how Wiltshire College has used a whole-organisation approach to improving literacy and numeracy and preparing staff for tests.

Level
Level 2
General
Staff development