Adult Basic Skills Resource Centre for students and tutors
1000+ free PDF Skills for Life resources available on this privately owned site, used as a resource in my literacy and numeracy classes at Abingdon & Witney College.

I hope students and tutors around the UK, and beyond, will also find it useful. KEY:  Literacy ESOL General   Numeracy / ICT

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Valentine's Day Numeracy and Literacy; Shrove Tuesday Lit & Num activities; School Snow Days

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 Letter sounds phase 2 bingo game (Entry 1) Readwell Road reading books for adults - overview document with teacher's notes, etc. Readwell Road - reading books/ scheme for adults. Step 1 - books A, B, C (Entry 1) and activities First 100 high frequency words - 16 sets of worksheets with adult storylines and content - and flashcards, 39 pages. Police web quest - embedded Functional English (reading and writing) for Entry Level Public Service students Homophone kinaesthetic card game for Entry 3 - Level 2   The BIG letters reading game preEntry - Entry 1 Literacy / ESOL Stuff for classrooms PPT with audio (preEntry ESOL & literacy) Getting to know you question words for E1 ESOL - Literacy Pencils and other stuff for classrooms card match (preEntry ESOl & literacy) Coronation Street comprehension questions (Entry 3) Carpentry key vocabulary - meanings, alphabetical ordering and spelling

08/02/10 Homophone definitions card game from Angela Kennedy-Lockwood, Birmingham Metropolitan College. Readwell Road reading scheme for adults books 1-3 from Linda Hoole, Havant. High frequency words worksheets and cards from Margaret Adams, Uckfield Community Technology College. Police web quest for Public Service students from Sara Bishop, Deeside College. Letter & sounds E1 bingo from Rachel Emmett, Hackney Community College. Coronation Street questions from Emma Shaw, Medway Adult Learning Service. Carpentry key vocabulary from Rachel Emmett, Hackney Community College. Big Letters reading game, Getting to know you, Classroom Stuff audio PPT all from Laurence Fletcher, Wolverhampton City College. Functional English - School Snow Days from Claire Douglas, Newcastle College.

  Pay Day - budgeting game for Entry Level workskills learners Triangle template (word document) to accompany Smart notebook "Intro to Algebra" resource Converting between Celsius and Fahrenheit - Level 2 Functional Maths lesson plan - Plan a Holiday (level 1 -2) Plan a Holiday- Functional Maths Level 1 PPT Problem solving with money and decimals. L1-2 Functional Maths for construction Introduction to algebra N1/L1.11 Smart Notebook Functional Maths: Measurement (area, perimeter, volume) and scale for construction students PPT with animation to show multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100 convert between metric measures of length. Info sheet and gap fill exercise Weather Maths based on Jan 2010 data - averages, percentages, fractions and more SnowMaths for L1-L2 Numeracy and Functional Mathematics 

06/02/10 Pay Day card game from Matt Barnes. Introduction to Algebra from John Thompson, Devon Adult & Community Learning. Functional Maths - Measures for construction PPT, lesson plans, Plan a holiday PPT, Problem solving with decimals PPT all from Elizabeth Adeyemi, South Thames College. Multiplying & dividing animated PPT from Elaine Baskerville, Northern Ireland. Converting measures and temperatures both from Michael Garen. Weather Maths data handling from Claire Douglas, Newcastle College. Snow Maths from Judith White, Somerset Skills & Learning.

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Numeracy resources 06/01/10 mapped to Adult Numeracy & Functional Maths Criteria (E1 Number E2 Number, E3 Number L1 Number, L2 Number, MSS (all), Data Handling (all), pre-Entry Numeracy).
Literacy resources 08/02/10 mapped to Adult Literacy Curriculum (pre-Entry, E1, E2, E3, L1, L2)  ESOL resources Entry 1 Entry 2 30/01/10

Topical & seasonal resources

Contextualised resources - construction, employment, hairdressing, etc. 06/02/10

Study skills, exam tips, general teaching resources 15/10/09

ICT Skills for Life and CLAIT resources 13/12/09 Interactive Schemes of Work L1-2 Num, E1 Lit.

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Recommended EXTERNAL LINKS

1 Useful links for tutors 30/11/09 New Section - Level 5 Numeracy Diploma Links

2 Embed ILT 10/08/09

3 Printable resources  Free maths posters at Skillsheets 10/11/09

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