Functional Skills English Reading - teaching resource

Functional Skills English: Reading – A Skill for Life is a comprehensive nine-lesson teaching unit designed to develop essential reading skills required for Functional Skills English. The resource includes an 88-slide editable PowerPoint and a 32-page worksheet booklet, providing step-by-step lessons that can be personalised and differentiated to suit your learners' needs.

Each lesson follows a four-part structure — starter, introduction, development, and plenary — ensuring a clear, accessible approach for teachers and pupils alike.

What’s Included in the Unit:

• Lesson-by-lesson teaching overview

• What are Functional Skills Reading?

• Features of written texts and how to recognise them

• Adapting writing to suit different audiences and purposes

• Finding information quickly — skimming, scanning, and highlighting techniques

• Understanding how a text is structured and why

• Retrieving and interpreting information from a text

• Identifying presentational devices and understanding text layout

• Finding and responding to information in tables and charts

• Example Functional Skills Reading task for assessment practice

• Functional Skills Reading assessment criteria

This resource is fully editable, allowing teachers to adapt it to suit different ability levels and classroom contexts.

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