Johns Birthday

Name _________________ Date __________

Johns Birthday
Dan is in the kitchen. He likes to cook.
He is making a cake.
He is reading the recipe very carefully.
The kitchen is very dirty. There is flour on
the bench. There is flour on Dan's face.
There are three dirty bowls in the sink.
There are many dirty spoons on the
counter. Now Dan is breaking an egg.
Dan is very happy. The cake is for his son, John.
Today is Johns birthday. John is eight years old today.

They're going to have pizza for dinner.

They're going to eat cake. Pizza and
chocolate cake are John's favourite foods.

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Name _________________ Date __________

1. Is Dan using a recipe to make a cake?

2. Is the kitchen clean or dirty now?

3. How many bowls are in the sink?

4. Is Dan's face dirty?

5. What are John's favourite foods?

6. How old is John?

7. Is Dan going to make pizza?

8. Is Dan having a party for his son?

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Curriculum mapping and teaching notes

FunctionalSkillsEnglishmapping
Coverageandrange(C&R)statementsprovideanindicationofthetypeofcontentcandidatesis
expected to apply in functional contexts. Relevant content can also be drawn from equivalent
(school)NationalCurriculumlevelsandtheAdultLiteracystandards.
Highlighting indicates the main C&R statements that are (or can be) covered in this resource.
However,thesewillvarywiththestudentgroupandhowtheresourceisusedbytheteacher.
Reference:Ofqual(2009),FunctionalSkillscriteriaforEnglish:Entry1,Entry2,Entry3,level1and
level2.http://www.ofqual.gov.uk/

READING
EntryLevel2

Skillsworkshoptips=tipthatworks
particularlywellwiththisresource

SkillStandard
Readandunderstandstraightforward
textsthatexplain,informorrecount
information
CoverageandRangestatements
a) Understandthemaineventsin
chronologicaltexts
b) Readandunderstandsimple
instructionsanddirections
c) Readandunderstandhigh
frequencywordsandwordswith
commonspellingpatterns
d) Useknowledgeofalphabetical
ordertolocateinformation

a)
Chopthetextupintoparagraphsforreordering.
Inpairs,studentsreadthetexttogetherandthen
summariseitscontents(intheirownwords)totherestof
thegroup.

c)

Learnerstohighlightanddiscussanywordstheycannot
readordonotunderstand.Thenencourageuseof
context,pictures,etc.forclues.
Focusonrhymingwordswithsimilarspellingpatterns.
E.g.cakebakelake,cooklook,etc.

Extensionideas:
CoverC&R(b)byreadinganddiscussingthelanguageand
formatofstraightforwardcakeorpizzarecipes,bothare
availableonskillsworkshopjustfollow
http://www.skillsworkshop.org/category/freetags/recipe
Forwritingworkusetherepeatedsentencestructures
fromthetextsuchasTheyregoingtoandThereare
.toencourageindependentwriting.
Learnerstodescribehowtheyimaginethekitchenor
cake.

AlsocoversmanyEntryLevel2adultliteracycurriculumelements
Rt/E2.1Traceandunderstandthemaineventsofchronologicalandinstructionaltexts
(a)understandthatchronologicaltextisrelatedtoeventsintime
(b)understandthatinstructionaltextsmustbereadinsequence
(c)knowandusetextlevelstrategiestopredictcontentandcheckmeaning,e.g.theirown
backgroundknowledge,contextoftextasawhole,title,headings,illustrations

http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/sflcurriculum

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