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Tips for choosing a book to read
A useful tool to act as a prompt for your learners as they seek out books to ignite their passion for reading.
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New Arrivals Story Resource

A useful resource to use with your new arrivals to talk about their first day at a new school. Includes speaking, listening, reading and writing activities.

Mary Seacole Resource
A resource all about Mary Seacole, the Jamaican Florence Nightingale. Includes flashcards, an early literacy activity and reading comprehension and fluency activities.

Election resource

A useful resource to use with your new arrivals to talk about local or national elections. Includes speaking, listening, reading and writing activities.

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Healthy eating resource
Flashcards and substitution tables for learning vocabulary and structures related to healthy eating.
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Halloween Resource
A resource all about Halloween. Includes flashcards, an early literacy activity and reading comprehension and fluency activities.

Hygiene text resource

Vocabulary for hygiene, infection and cleanliness, using an instructional genre.

Christmas Resource
A resource all about Christmas. Includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Hygiene text deconstruction and reconstruction
Text-based deconstruction and reconstruction activities for learners. Topic: Hygiene.

Christmas Customs Resource
A resource all about Christmas customs around the world. Includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.
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Non-fiction text activity ideas
Leveled activity bank for non-fiction text engagement, using Bloom's Taxonomy ladders.
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Water safety scaffolding resource
A resource all about Water safety at home and in swimming pools. There are flashcard games and substitution tables ready to use, with extension activities in all areas. Text-based activities build on vocabulary and sentence structures to help your learners deconstruct and reconstruct an original text.

Tricky word activities
Tricky word learning activities for younger learners (easily adapted for older learners).
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Northern Hemisphere Seasons Resource
A resource all about seasons in the Northern hemisphere, and the months associated with them. Includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Teaching note-taking skills
A table and template with four useful note-taking strategies.
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International mother language day activities 2
A wonderful array of activity ideas to celebrate International Mother Language Day with your learners, by special guest author Mary Langford.
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Winter story and activities
A learner resource making use of simple vocabulary and language structures to tell an engaging story of two penguins and their new friend. Linked activities focus on the vocabulary of ‘feelings’ to explore the story and expand the learner’s knowledge of sentence structures. There are beginner, intermediate, advanced and extension activities, along with a full flashcard set.
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Celebrating amazing women scaffolded resource
A great resource about female role models and their characteristics. Includes speaking, listening, reading and writing activities. Great for International Women's Day.

Text types professional development activity
A quick professional development activity that can be completed with your colleagues, overing three common text types. It asks teachers to match a text type to the function of the text type, and gives an example of that text type and its language features.
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Southern Hemisphere Seasons Resource
A resource all about seasons in the Southern hemisphere, and the months associated with them. Includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.

EAL teacher guidance

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Word finding
27/11/2023
Storytelling
13/11/2023
Expressive language: Feelings & emotions
13/11/2023
Listening to and giving instructions: Prepositions
13/11/2023
One school, many languages: Making languages matter
25/10/2023
UN children’s rights and refugees: Fostering equality in the classroom
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UN children’s rights and refugees: Fostering equality in the classroom
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