Links:
- Adult Basic Skills Resource Centre for students and tutors - This site is really useful for all those with an interest in basic skills. It contains a number of useful worksheets and teaching ideas for incorporating Skills 4 Life skills within broader topics.
pop (Added: 2-May-2004 By: NR Hits: 4183)
- Crossword puzzle-maker - Fast, easy, free way to create crossword puzzles to print off.
(Added: 26-Feb-2004 By: NJ Hits: 1741)
- Discussion List for Basic Skills Teachers - From the Basic Skills Agency homepage, click on 'Talk Shop' to find a list of topics to share ideas with other teachers across the country. Register for free to add your contribution.
(Added: 19-Nov-2003 By: NJ Hits: 1107)
- Get On campaign - Get On campaign website. The aim of the campaign is to help adults improve their reading, writing and maths.
This website is to enable training providers to support the Get On campaign. It is also for people who want to help friends and family members improve their basic skills.
(Added: 14-Dec-2001 By: NJ Hits: 1249)
- Hot Potatoes - Hot Potatoes includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises.
(Added: 16-Jan-2002 By: NJ Hits: 1969)
- Literacy Research Group - details the work of the Literacy Research Group, (Lancaster University), and who formed to promote research in adult literacy. Includes research activities, current events (which need updating), useful links, courses and publications.
(Added: 17-Jul-1998 By: DS Hits: 1109)
- Move On - Need online or paper-based tests for students preparing for the National Certificate in Adult Literacy or Numeracy? This site contains over 40 tests!
(Added: 18-Aug-2005 By: AP Hits: 736)
- National Literacy Trust - Promoting literacy for all ages. Includes national initiatives, research, resources and loads of useful links, eg ICT, government sites, special needs, basic skills etc.
(Added: 16-Mar-2002 By: EW Hits: 1075)
- National Skills for Life Campaign - This website has been developed through the Department for Education and Skills (Dfes) and offers Skills for Life support for practicing tutors including practice tests, case studies, and provider details.
(Added: 9-Sep-2005 By: RW Hits: 522)
- Puzzlemaker - Easy to follow instructions to make simple crosswords, word search and other puzzles (with solutions).
(Added: 6-Jun-2001 By: NJ Hits: 1595)
- Skills for Life Network - On-line news and information resource for teachers and supporters of Skills for Life. Job vacancy section, resource reviews and fortnightly e-news updates.
(Added: 21-May-2005 By: BZ Hits: 681)
- Skillsworkshop - A collaborative website for teachers that is linked to the Literacy and Numeracy Core Curriculum. Teachers can share and use worksheets and other resources to help teach Basic Skills content.
(Added: 3-Sep-2007 By: JG Hits: 338)
- Teacher Resource Exchange - Thousands of resources for tutors of various subjects, for students of all ages. All resources are checked by subject specialists. A truly awesome site!
(Added: 18-Aug-2005 By: AP Hits: 1101)
- Teachernet - First port of call for schools.
For a Literacy lesson plan: first, when you are on the main page for the lesson plans (www.teachernet.gov.uk/resources), select 'English' as the subject in Step 1, and the Key Stage you want. In Step 2 select the TeacherNet Reviews category. This brings up a new screen. Leave the top box 'Scheme of work unit' empty and type 'Literacy' into the Keyword box, then click on return. The results will appear and you can choose from these. If you want to view more, click on the button that says 'Next 10'.
(Added: 18-Dec-2003 By: NJ Hits: 1189)
- Teaching Time - Good interactive activities and printable worksheets, also links to 'sister' sites e.g.teaching money
(Added: 17-Feb-2004 By: NJ Hits: 712)
- THRASS - Teaching Handwriting, Reading and Spelling Skills. Suggests teaching methods, especially for Dyslexia.
(Added: 29-Jan-2001 By: NJ Hits: 1158)
- Worksheets - Excellent site to customise your Basic Numeracy and Literacy work sheets. You can download free of charge for evaluation purpose. You can also print and save your customised work sheets.
pop (Added: 29-Jan-2001 By: NJ Hits: 3977)
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