LSIS are pleased to announce that all the materials from the ReadWritePlus site, which has now been closed, have been moved to the Excellence Gateway.

LSIS have changed how the content is organised and presented so that it's easier for users to find what they are looking for.

The materials, if you have not looked at them in the past, will be of interest to a wide range of practitioners in all settings, including...

• Skills for Life;

• Functional Skills; and
  

• Key Skills.

For ...

Literacy Head could be a great resource for functional and key skills practitioners.

Literacy Head is a weekly ePublication about teaching literacy through the use of art work. Each week Literacy Head publishes lessons for teaching visuals-based...

• reading,
  
• writing, and
  
• vocabulary lessons.
  

The word "brave" was included in the vocabulary lesson I looked at; to help learners visualize the word and its definition, Literacy Head had four images of people doing brave things. 

Litera...

The Early Childhood Education Network's Literacy Center (Centre) provides learners with online learning activities in four languages.

The Literacy Centre provides tutorials and games in...

• English,
• Spanish,
• German, and
• French.

The tutorials and games are designed to teach learners...

• the alphabet,
• writing the alphabet,
• numbers,
• shapes,
• colours,
• phonics, and
• basic spelling.

Each section begins with a tutorial before moving on to ask learners to apply their new knowledge to an activity...

The Embedded Learning Portal contains online versions of the Skills for Life Materials for Embedded Learning. These embedded teaching and learning materials are designed for use by practitioners: vocational practitioners and trainers, Skills for Life (Functional Skills) practitioners, practitioners working in community, employability and health settings and employability programmes.

Skills for Life Materials for Embedded Learning aim to help learners to improve the...

• literacy,
• language or...