These modules are designed to help you to improve your knowledge and understanding of English and the teaching of English. They are free-standing and cover a range of topics aligned to the Functional Skills Level 2, and GCSE English curricula. You can access as many or as few as you wish. Use the Search facility and the outcome from your self-evaluation to help you to locate resources that are relevant.
- Crafting your own writing
- Critical Comms Awareness
- Evaluating writing
- Grammar, punctuation and spelling
- Listening and understanding
- Planning and developing writing
- Reading critically
- Reading with appreciation and understanding
- Speaking
- Writing effectively and clearly
- Writing for impact
- Sentences
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Module: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Word Classes
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Module: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Tenses
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Module: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Punctuation
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Module: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Spelling
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Module: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Vocabulary
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Module: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Phonics
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Module: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Marking learners work
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Module: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
Module: Introduction to Reading Critically
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
Module: Evaluating Writing
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
Module: Writing effectively and clearly
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Reading critically
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Module: Introduction to Reading Critically
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Points of view
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Module: Introduction to Reading Critically
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Bias
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Module: Introduction to Reading Critically
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Summarising text
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Module: Introduction to Reading Critically
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Reflecting on text
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Module: Introduction to Reading Critically
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Evaluating writing
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Module: Evaluating Writing
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Comparing pieces of writing
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Module: Evaluating Writing
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Analysing text
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Module: Evaluating Writing
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
Module: Crafting your own writing
Level: GCSE
- Comparing same subject
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Module: Evaluating Writing
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Writing analysis criteria
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Module: Evaluating Writing
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Using language creatively
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Module: Writing effectively and clearly
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Using language persuasively
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Module: Writing effectively and clearly
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Using language descriptively
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Module: Writing effectively and clearly
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Narrating
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Module: Writing effectively and clearly
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Describing
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Module: Writing effectively and clearly
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Descriptive writing
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Module: Writing effectively and clearly
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Consistency and coherence
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Module: Writing effectively and clearly
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Proofreading
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Module: Writing effectively and clearly
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Editing
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Module: Writing effectively and clearly
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Stages of writing
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Module: Writing for impact
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Purpose of writing
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Module: Writing for impact
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Audience
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Module: Writing for impact
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Topic
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Module: Writing for impact
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Planning methods
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Module: Writing for impact
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Text structure
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Module: Writing for impact
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Cohesion and coherence
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Module: Writing for impact
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Rhetorical and emotive language
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Module: Writing for impact
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Key features of writing
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Module: Writing for impact
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Spoken and written language differences
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Module: Speaking
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Speeches
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Module: Speaking
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Presentations
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Module: Speaking
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Linguistic features
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Module: Speaking
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Standard English
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Module: Speaking
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Accent
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Module: Speaking
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
Module: Listening and understanding
Level: GCSE
- Dialect
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Module: Speaking
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
Module: Listening and understanding
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Attitudes to accent
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Module: Speaking
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Non-verbal communication
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Module: Speaking
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Paralinguistics
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Module: Listening and understanding
Level: GCSE
- Planning writing
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Module: Planning and developing writing
Level: GCSE
- Writing processes
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Module: Planning and developing writing
Level: GCSE
- Developing writing
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Module: Planning and developing writing
Level: Functional Skills
- Cohesion
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Module: Planning and developing writing
Level: GCSE
- Accuracy (SPaG)
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Module: Planning and developing writing
Level: GCSE
- Evidence
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Module: Planning and developing writing
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Unpacking "reading"; what does it involve?
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Module: Reading with appreciation and understanding
Level: Functional Skills
- Reading strategies
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Module: Reading with appreciation and understanding
Level: GCSE
- Reading non-fiction
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Module: Reading with appreciation and understanding
Level: GCSE
- Reading online
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Module: Reading with appreciation and understanding
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Meta-language
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Module: Reading with appreciation and understanding
Level: GCSE
- Reading fiction
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Module: Reading with appreciation and understanding
Level: GCSE
- Reading with appreciation
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Module: Reading with appreciation and understanding
Level: GCSE
- Identifying types of writing tasks you undertake in your role
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Module: Crafting your own writing
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- How you can improve text you create
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Module: Crafting your own writing
Level: GCSE
- Skills involved in writing non-fiction
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Module: Crafting your own writing
Level: GCSE
- How to use connectives
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Module: Crafting your own writing
Level: GCSE
- Identifying different text types
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Module: Crafting your own writing
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Critical communication awareness
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Module: Critical communication awareness
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- How language reflects the context
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Module: Critical communication awareness
Level: GCSE
- The interplay of multimodal features
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Module: Critical communication awareness
Level: GCSE
- Historical varieties of English.
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Module: Critical communication awareness
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE
- Digital literacies
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Module: Critical communication awareness
Level: GCSE
- Language and power
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Module: Critical communication awareness
Level: Functional Skills / GCSE