Core Curriculum Elements
Introduction to Skills for Life Core Curricula
This is an overview of the development of the Government's Skills for Life Strategy (2001). It provides information on the DfES Adult Basic Skills Strategy Unit, the range of documents that support the Skills for Life teaching infrastructure, and how Access for All is used in conjunction with the Core Curricula.
Clicking the titles below will show a brief summary of each, and provide links to the individual elements.
- Literacy 1: Introduction to the Adult Literacy Core Curriculum
- Literacy 2: Using the Adult Literacy Core Curriculum
- Literacy 3: Sentence
- Literacy 4: Text
- Literacy 5: Using the Curriculum to plan schemes of work
- Literacy 6: Measuring and assessing achievement
- Numeracy 1: Introduction to the Adult Numeracy Core Curriculum
- Numeracy 2: Using the Adult Numeracy Core Curriculum
- Numeracy 3: Number
- Numeracy 4: Applying number
- Numeracy 5: Common measures
- Numeracy 6: Shape and Space
- Numeracy 7: Handling Data
- Numeracy 8: Using Calculators
- Numeracy 9: Using ICT
- ESOL 1: Introduction to the Adult ESOL Core Curriculum
- ESOL 2: Using the Adult ESOL Core Curriculum
- ESOL 3: Diagnostic Assessment
- ESOL 4: Measuring and assessing achievement
- ESOL 5: Using the Curriculum to plan schemes of work
- ESOL 6: Planning for beginners, mixed-level and advanced learners
Pre-Entry Curriculum Framework
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