This guide has been created by specialist English practitioners with considerable experience of delivering GCSE English Language across a wide range of abilities, including low-level learners, in the further education sector. 

The aim of this guide is to provide resources and ideas that will encourage low-level learners, with a grade two or below at GCSE, to read fluently and write effectively. 

This resource focuses on the basic skills required for low-level learners to be able to improve their skills in:

Through storytelling, people with different perspectives can come together and share their common humanity, hopes and goals. The act of telling stories, listening and being listened to in itself, has a positive impact on those learning and working in the SEND system.  This publication,  Small, powerful everyday things – conversations of humanity in the SEND system, gives us an opportunity to read stories from the perspective of learners, their families and professionals working in the SEND system and to think about how storytelling might inform your work.

This study explored the extent to which a flipped-classroom approach using digital resources would impact on learner engagement and progression in Functional Skills English.

This research considers why 'learning intentions' are frequently shared and displayed, but not utilised, resulting in teachers and learners failing to see their value.