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Functional Skills English Entry Level - 09495, 09496, 09497

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  • English Entry Level - 09495, 09496, 09497

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Thinking of teaching this qualification?

OCR has been at the forefront of developing functional skills assessments. This experience, backed up by extensive research and evaluation from our three year pilot, has given us a unique insight into what functionality means to assessment design. This qualification can be used as a component for any Foundation Learning programme.

  • (1) Summary brochures
    • English qualifications summary brochure (PDF, 959KB)

      Our full range of English qualifications.

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  • (7) Key documents
    • Centre handbook (PDF, 324KB)
    • Example internal standardisation feedback record (DOC, 198KB)

      Appendix 3

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    • Example sample plan (DOC, 208KB)

      Appendix 2

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    • Example standardisation meeting template (DOC, 189KB)

      Appendix 1

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    • Functional Skills admin overview
    • Functional Skills centre timeline (PDF, 1MB)
    • Internal standardisation generic guide (PDF, 584KB)

      Internal standardisation generic guide

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  • (5) Subject information updates
    • Final arrangements for withdrawal of OCR Functional Skills English and maths qualifications
    • Access arrangements and Functional Skills - September 2018
    • Update to Functional Skills English and Maths availability
    • Functional Skills summer 2020 update
    • Legacy Functional Skills English and maths: Final arrangements update
  • (4) Forms
    • Application for the transfer of Functional Skills English components (DOCX, 205KB)
    • Assessment front sheet (PDF, 80KB)
    • Assessor’s observation record form (DOC, 918KB)
    • Centre authentication form (DOC, 67KB)
  • (2) Practice tests
    • Practice set 1 – Entry level tasks and mark scheme (PDF, 1MB)
    • Practice set 2 – Entry level tasks and mark scheme (PDF, 1MB)
  • (6) Question papers, mark schemes and reports
    • (1) 2014 series
      • Examiners’ report - September (PDF, 274KB)
    • (1) 2015 series
      • Examiners' report - August (PDF, 281KB)
    • (1) 2016 series
      • Report to centres - August (PDF, 276KB)
    • (1) 2017 series
      • Examiners' report - 2016/17 (PDF, 226KB)
    • (1) 2018 series
      • Examiners' report - FS Entry - 09495-09497 - English
    • (1) 2019 series
      • Moderators' report - FS Entry - 09495-09497 - English
  • (2) Sample assessment materials
    • Assessment marking guidance (PDF, 88KB)
    • Sample assessment materials (PDF, 954KB)

Teaching and learning resources

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  • The teaching and learning resources on this page must not be used for summative assessment purposes. As part of our teaching we expect support to be given to your learners; such support is not permissible for summative assessment and is likely to be considered malpractice.

  • (1) Planning
    • Mapping Cambridge Progression to Functional Skills to the new GCSEs (PDF, 557KB)

      See how Cambridge Progression and Functional Skills units map to the 2015 GCSE (9-1) English and Maths specifications.

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  • (16) Support materials
    • A guide to our resources - Start here (PDF, 1MB)
    • A guide to resources - Start here (PDF, 1MB)
    • Curriculum guide (PDF, 797KB)
    • Delivery guide (PDF, 2MB)

      This guide gives a range of ideas for lessons structured by learning outcome for this unit.

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    • English mapping - Progression to Functional Skills to GCSE (PDF, 1MB)
    • Hints and tips - No 1 - Speaking and listening units (PDF, 606KB)

      This resource gives additional guidance about the speaking and listening entry level, level 1 and level 2 units.

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    • Moving towards retirement - A project approach (PDF, 4MB)

      Moving towards retirement - A project approach - cover

      This project approach shows how by giving the learners a project (Moving towards retirement), they can cover a range of units from Life and Living Skills, Cambridge English and Cambridge Progression Maths.

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    • Moving towards retirement - Lesson element - Getting the most out of your reading - Learner task (DOC, 2MB)

      Moving towards retirement - Lesson element - Getting the most out of your reading - Learner task - cover

      This lesson element gives learners some text to read and a set of questions to answer.

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    • Moving towards retirement - Lesson element - Getting the most out of your reading - Teacher instructions (PDF, 164KB)

      Moving towards retirement - Lesson element - Getting the most out of your reading - Teacher instructions - cover

      This document gives teachers background information about this Lesson Element.

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    • Moving towards retirement - Lesson element - Learn a new skill - Learner task (DOC, 2MB)

      Moving towards retirement - Lesson element - Learn new skills - Learner task - cover

      This lesson element gives some tasks about learning a new skill.

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    • Moving towards retirement - Lesson element - Learn a new skill - Teacher instructions (PDF, 118KB)

      Moving towards retirement - Lesson element - Learn a new skills - Teacher instructions - cover

      This document gives teachers background information about this Lesson Element.

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    • Presentation - Entry Levels (PPT, 2MB)
    • Progress tracker (XLS, 9MB)
    • Resources links (PDF, 2MB)
    • Teach it supporting resources (ZIP, 11MB)
    • Teacher resource - Activity bank - Entry Level (ZIP, 4MB)
  • External resources

    OCR has endorsed or recommended the following resources for use with this specification. For more information about endorsed or recommended resources, visit our endorsement page. Note: OCR is not responsible for the contents of third party sites.

  • (1) Endorsed by OCR

      English Boxed

      Online

      Description

      An interactive Functional Skills English course for Entry Level 3, Level 1 and Level 2. All the delivery for the qualification is offered through film production, high quality content which sits on an interactive, easy to use platform. The platform alerts tutors if learners are struggling so they can be offered further support, either on a 1-1 basis or through video conferencing (which is also built into the platform). A new way of learning for a new generation of technology focused learners and also for previous generations who have struggled to learn in a traditional way.

      Publication date: April 2017

      Author Lucy Dunleavy and Nathan Carey
      Publisher LearnBox
      Website www.learningboxed.com
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