Our Functional Skills English ActiveLearn subscriptions support Entry Level 3, Level 1 and Level 2 specifications. These resources aim to break down the most common barriers faced by learners and provide targeted teaching and learning content to help learners succeed in 13 key topic areas:
- Answering from the text
- Format and structure
- Grammar
- Organisational features
- Punctuation 1
- Punctuation 2
- Reference material
- Sentences
- Speaking, listening and communicating
- Spelling 1
- Spelling 2
- Textual features
- Vocabulary
The service gives you access to a range of planning, teaching and formative assessment tools.
Interactive Scheme of Work
An interactive planning tool that can be adapted to suit your delivery model:
- Routes through the curriculum for a 30-week, 15-week or 5-week course
- Direct links to our teaching and learning resources
Teaching and learning
The following resources are available for each topic:
- 1 x slide presentation with notes/suggestions for delivery
- 1 x Entry Level 3 worksheet
- 2 x Level 1 worksheets
- 2 x Level 2 worksheets
- Teaching notes
- Answers to worksheet questions
Formative assessment and booster activities
Our formative assessments allow you to see progress that individual learners are making and identify gaps in knowledge – and booster worksheets are available for further support.
- Online and paper-based formative assessments – one per topic for each level (E3, L1, L2)
- Online formative assessments are automarked
- Booster worksheets for each topic help bridge remaining skills gaps