Ascentis Entry Level 1 Functional Skills English

Qualification Overview

Functional Skills English qualifications at Entry Level 1 should enable learners to:

• Listen, understand and respond to verbal communication in a range of familiar contexts
• Acquire an understanding of everyday words and their uses and effects and apply this understanding in different contexts
• Read with accuracy straightforward texts encountered in everyday life and work, and develop confidence to read more widely
• Write straightforward texts and documents with clarity and effectiveness, and demonstrate a sound grasp of spelling, punctuation and grammar

Learners should, with some direction and guidance, be able to apply these Functional Skills to informal and some formal contexts, in familiar situations.

Aims

The aims of the qualifications are to:

• Promote the development of English skills to embed their importance as an evolving life skill
• Prepare learners to use English skills in a broad range of familiar and working contexts
• Reward achievement for the English skills learners have developed

Target Group

This qualification is aimed at a range of learners including young people aged 14–19 and adult learners wishing to develop and demonstrate their skills in English. The assessment tasks have been designed so that the contexts are applicable to both young people aged 14– 19 and adult learners.

Assessment Method

The Ascentis Functional Skills English qualifications at Entry Level are assessed through externally set assessments (Reading and Writing components are delivered online through the Surpass platform), internally marked and verified by the centre, within Surpass, and then externally verified by an Ascentis EQA.

At all levels of the Ascentis Functional Skills English qualifications, Speaking, Listening and Communicating (SLC) is set by Ascentis, assessed in centre, and assessment decisions are recorded using Ascentis-devised recording documents and video-recorded evidence (if available).