Six practical Functional Skills English Level 1 writing units for adults and older learners. Teach emails, formal and informal letters, forms, complaints, short reports and proofreading using realistic fictional tasks. Includes a 40-page workbook, a 30-page tutor guide, editable files, assessment practice, marked learner samples and four pages of bonus genre practice.

Help learners write for a clear purpose and a real reader, rather than simply following a template. This resource provides guided teaching and independent work across workplace, community and everyday contexts. The scenarios are fictional, so learners do not need to give real personal information.

Each of the six units offers learning intentions, a practical explanation, a worked improvement, an annotated model, guided practice, two independent tasks, an editing exercise and a self-check. The separate tutor guide includes teaching notes, indicative responses, correction keys, differentiated feedback, a formative marking rubric and three scored calibration samples.

What you receive (seven files)

• 40-page A4 student workbook: PDF and editable DOCX.
• 30-page tutor guide: PDF and editable DOCX.
• Six individual five-page unit PDFs in a compact ZIP, plus a separate Unit 6 PDF for easy access.
• Four-page bonus learner extension (notices, leaflet and community article): PDF and editable DOCX (editable version in the ZIP).
• Two-page tutor key for bonus activities: PDF and DOCX inside the ZIP.
• Two diagnostic tasks, two final independent tasks, 24-point formative marking rubric, feedback sheets and three marked sample responses.
• Permitted-use notes inside the ZIP.

Designed for FE lecturers, adult learning, employability provision, Functional Skills English Level 1 writing interventions and independent practice with older learners in England.

Curriculum and assessment

Informed by the Department for Education’s Functional Skills English Level 1 writing content statements 19–25. The practice tasks and rubric are formative; they are not trialled, equated, official specimen papers or an awarding-body assessment. No official pass mark is claimed. Suggested word ranges are classroom targets, not examination requirements.

Accessibility and copyright

The main workbook and tutor guide come in editable DOCX formats to support adaptation. Ruled response spaces are print-first and have not been independently verified for screen-reader users. Copyright © 2026 Dr. Suliman Abdelaty. All rights reserved. Purchase and use are subject to the applicable ÌÇÐÄVlog Teaching Resource Licence. This publication is not endorsed by an awarding organisation.