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EAL resources to support your induction to English in the curriculum
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Questions for bilingual teaching assistants
A list of questions for a bilingual support partner to use when supporting families.
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Initial Maths assessment
An initial Maths assessment for EAL pupils to identify gaps in learning.
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'Comparing languages' resource
A frame for comparing a learner's home language with English. It can be used in order to incorporate the use of the home language within the classroom or to promote bilingualism.
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'What's in an image' resource

A lovely resource which encourages your learners to explore an interesting image and create and discuss their own.

'Who we are' activity
A fun activity to introduce new arrivals or to start the school year. It can be used throughout the year to scaffold learning.
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April Fool's Day resource
A printable resource about April Fool's Day and fictional news stories that includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Behaviour for learning chart
A printable behaviour for learning chart with space for translation.
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Bilingual vocabulary sheet
Practical strategies to help you to promote the use of mother tongue in your classroom.
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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.

Celebrating Cultural Diversity Resource
An incredible, in depth resource celebrating cultural diversity, with activities for speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Class language survey
This resource includes a class language survey that can be used with your learners to gather information about the languages spoken in their class and how they are used with different people.

Collaborative planning document
Plan collaboratively with your subject-specific colleagues to gain overviews and multi-subject links.
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Collaborative role-play resource
Instructions and resources for a collaborative role-play activity with EAL learners in class.

Conjunctions - because and so - flashcards
Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Conjunctions because and so

Cross-curricular planner
Medium-term cross-curricular planner for learning content and language. This PDF is interactive so can be filled out digitally, or printed off.
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EAL progress review grid
A useful proforma to record the progress of your EAL pupils.
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EAL scheme of work
A scheme of work for providing new-to-English learners with survival language and curriculum content.
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EAL welcome book
An EAL Welcome Book which can be customised to suit your and your learner's needs and circumstances.
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EAL Wellbeing Resource
An EAL Wellbeing Resource that introduces EAL learners to the vocabulary and language structures they need to understand and talk about their feelings, and importantly, to access support. It covers simple mental health vocabulary and communication techniques.

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