Functional Skills Writing - teaching resource

Functional Skills English: Writing – A Life Skill is a comprehensive eight-lesson teaching unit designed to help learners develop the essential writing skills required for Functional Skills English. The resource includes a 114-slide fully editable PowerPoint and a 28-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, and effective teaching sequence.

What’s Included in the Unit:

• Lesson-by-lesson teaching overview

• What are Functional Skills in English?

• Writing and modern communication

• Why writing is an essential life skill

• Adapting writing to suit different audiences and purposes

• Taking and recording messages accurately

• How to make effective notes and transform them into prose

• Mind mapping strategies to organise ideas

• Writing formal emails with structure and clarity

• Planning and structuring Functional Skills writing tasks

• Self and peer assessment using Functional Skills writing criteria

This resource is fully editable, allowing teachers to adapt tasks, activities, and examples to suit the needs of all learners.

To preview Functional Skills English: Writing – A Life Skill in full, click on the images from the PowerPoint presentation.

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