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Minibeast activities
A home-learning minibeasts project for primary pupils.
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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.

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.

Phonics tricky words assessment sheet
Phonics tricky word assessment for phases 2 to 5.
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Phonics tricky words flashcards
Printable flashcards for learning phonics tricky words.
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Question and answer prompts
A series of question starters and responses for dialogic teaching that you might want to print off and refer to when planning lessons.
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School Camping Trips Resource
A resource all about school camping trips. Includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.
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Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day resource
A super resource about pancake-making that can be used to teach British Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) traditions! Includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing. This is a limited-view resource. For access to the full, members-only resource, please log in.

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.

Sports Day Resource
A resource all about Sports Day. Includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.
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Story-telling stages
A list of story-telling stages with suggested ideas to excite your learners.
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Summer learning activities
This resource includes a summer learning pack which will give pupils fun, collaborative and sociable ways of continuing to practise their speaking, listening, reading and writing during the summer break period.

Survival language helpers (primary)
Survival language helpers designed for primary learners that help them understand the language of making friends and classroom instructions.

Survival language helpers (secondary)
Survival language helpers designed for secondary learners that help them understand the language of making friends and classroom instructions.

Swimming Sports Resource
A resource all about Swimming Sports. Includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.
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Top 2,000 high frequency words
A wordlist of the first 2,000 high frequency words.
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Trade goods introduce me activity
A collaborative, group-focused, role-play activity for learning subject-specific vocabulary.
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Tricky word activities
Tricky word learning activities for younger learners (easily adapted for older learners).
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Trip to the Museum Resource
A resource all about a trip to the museum. Includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Trip to the Zoo Resource
A resource all about a trip to the zoo. Includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.

EAL teacher guidance

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How do EAL learners become effective writers?
15/04/2024
Teaching pre-literate learners
07/02/2024
SEND support: Past tense
07/02/2024
SEND support: Supporting deaf learners
07/02/2024
Using a multimodal approach in the classroom
10/01/2024
Why provide EAL learners with small-group teaching?
06/12/2023
SEND support: Word finding
27/11/2023
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