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Teacher Actions and Strategies for Supporting Refugees

A practical list of strategies to help foster equality in your classroom.

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Teaching 'online English' resource including flashcards
Examples about how to consider elements of EAL pedagogy when planning lessons for the topic of ‘online English’, including vocabulary and language structure flashcards.
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Teaching note-taking skills
A table and template with four useful note-taking strategies.
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Templates to Help Your EAL Learners

A useful set of downloadable templates to help your EAL learners.

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Text type activities
A resource with a model text and corresponding activities for your learners.
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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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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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Top 2,000 high frequency words
A wordlist of the first 2,000 high frequency words.
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Top tips for engaging EAL parents
A checklist with top tips that you can use to engage EAL parents.
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Top tips for supporting EAL learners in the mainstream classroom
A checklist of top tips for supporting EAL learners in the mainstream classroom. Includes tips on oral language development, teaching vocabulary, error correction techniques, reading and writing.

Top Tips to Make You A Great EAL Teacher

A list of top tips to help you become a great EAL teacher.

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Topics to inspire your parent workshops
A sheet of topic ideas to inspire and enrich your parent workshops!
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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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Transitioning interview and activity ideas
This questionnaire can be given to students before their transition to their new school or can be used by teachers in a first meeting interview. There are also activity ideas for the old and new school to make transitioning easier.
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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.

Valentine's Day Resource
An in-depth resource all about Valentine's Day traditions, with activities for speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Vocabulary Game Resource
A fun game which can be used for teaching your pre-literate, EAL or SEND learners basic vocabulary.
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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.

EAL teacher guidance

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