Adult Literacy, Functional English, and GCSE Resources

Barack Obama questions provide extra comprehension practice for Rachel Emmett’s E1 comprehension text (see below)

A great set of hands-on card based activities for Entry learners. Sort and correct sentences, sort nouns into proper and common, etc.

An ideal end of year or summer activity for beginning readers (ESOL or Lit). 9 illustrated bingo boards plus checklist.

A great set of literacy and numeracy resources based on making appointments. Includes blank and filled appointment sheets, treatment price list (with accompanying questions) and a short writing activity. Ideal for working with money and time. Also involves scanning text.

An interactive multiple choice whiteboard quiz with ten common misspellings (accommodation, definite and other classics). The great thing about this activity is that it is created from a template (available in the Activity Toolkit, in the Smart Notebook Gallery) and can be quickly and easily edited to include specific spellings for your students.
See Dave’s other Notebook word games below.

A series of comprehension, vocabulary, apostrophe and summarising questions.

A series of Level 2 reading (distinguishing between fact & opinion), proof reading and listening tasks.

The Average Briton is an interactive whiteboard cloze activity originally aimed at L1-2 ‘English at Work’ ESOL students but also great for literacy and numeracy students and ideal for prompting discussion about place value, British society, and much more!

Please note you must have the Smart notebook software installed on your computer in order to open, view and use this resource http://smarttech.com/

A nice introduction to using syllables to help with decoding and spelling.

Two cloze exercises (one for E3, one for L1) followed by an introduction to suffixes.