What to give to students

• Students need to be aware of the Component Criteria for both Key Skills and English Language AS / A2 Level that they are working to achieve. For this exercise, provide students with a list of the specific criteria that the assignment will address in both Key Skills and English Language:
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• Your students will need clear, step-by-step instructions indicating, where appropriate, how what they are being asked to do is contributing to their Key Skills Award. The instructions we have provided include details of how the Key Skills and English Language A Level criteria have been met by doing the assignment.
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• You will also need to indicate what equipment is required for this assignment.
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• This assignment is a data set investigation. The students will need a copy of the data they are investigating.
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  You could also ask your students to collect their own headlines from current newspapers. This would have the advantage that they would be familiar with the context of the data and the stories that the headlines referred to. Other suitable sets of data for this assignment could include Small Ads, Lonely Hearts Columns, Text messages, Horoscopes.