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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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Template for reflection on provision

A template for reflection on the quality of your provision and next steps.
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Initial Maths assessment

An initial Maths assessment for EAL pupils to identify gaps in learning.
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Parents' evening summary sheet

A useful checklist for before and during your parents' meetings.
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Correction code

A simple marking code for marking the work of lower-ability groups of EAL learners, which both you and your learners can quickly understand.
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Collaborative planning document

Plan collaboratively with your subject-specific colleagues to gain overviews and multi-subject links.
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Recommended books for younger learners

A list of recommended books for young EAL learners.
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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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School language profile template

A useful template to complete a school language profile.

Story-telling stages

A list of story-telling stages with suggested ideas to excite your learners.
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Helpful language for learning English in Science

Questions and substitution tables to prepare learners for Science lessons.
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Game ideas

A resource containing a number of fun game activities for your EAL and multilingual learners

Parent information card

Key questions that parents can ask their children in their home language to aid learning.
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Games for young learners

List of games to help young learners practise speaking, listening, reading and writing.
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Welcoming Ukrainian learners

A resource containing useful suggestions and links to articles and resources for welcoming and supporting Ukrainian learners.

Parent introduction card

Ideas for parents who are supporting a child attending a new school.
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English language learning record

EAL learning record to track the strategic use of flashcards.
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EAL scheme of work

A scheme of work for providing new-to-English learners with survival language.
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Tricky word activities

Tricky word learning activities for younger learners (easily adapted for older learners).
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Phonics tricky words flashcards

Printable flashcards for learning phonics tricky words.
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Top 2,000 high frequency words

A wordlist of the first 2,000 high frequency words.
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Successful ways to motivate your learners checklist

An ideas checklist of tried and tested ways to motivate your learners.

Teaching note-taking skills

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Lesson plan on self-assessment

Learners will use language structures based around the language of self-assessment. The learner will be introduced to a sliding scale of vocabulary to communicate how much of the lesson or part of the lesson they understood.
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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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Effective EAL support poster

A guide for teachers and assisting adults to achieve effective EAL support in the classroom.
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CLIL lesson plan

A planning template for a CLIL (content and language integrated learning) lesson with an example on how it can be used.
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9 Essentials for the EAL classroom factsheet

Essentials on how to create a language learning environment in your classroom.
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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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Observation of pupil chart

A chart to record learner behaviours and their frequency.
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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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Phonics tricky words assessment sheet

Phonics tricky word assessment for phases 2 to 5.
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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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EAL progress review grid

A useful proforma to record the progress of your EAL pupils.
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Personal mistakes profile

A personal mistakes profile template for marking and giving learners feedback on their written work.
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Learner resources

Hygiene text resource

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

Survival language helpers (primary)

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

Hygiene text deconstruction and reconstruction

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

Survival language helpers (secondary)

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

Healthy eating resource

Flashcards and substitution tables for learning vocabulary and structures related to healthy eating.
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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.

Holiday projects for older learners

This resource includes a holiday learning pack which will give older pupils fun, collaborative and sociable ways of continuing to practise their speaking, listening, reading and writing during the holiday period.

International mother language day activities

This game introduces children, in a fun way, to a variety of languages.
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Lockdown engagement activities

Instructions and examples for remote games to engage learners during remote lessons.
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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.

Minibeast activities

A home-learning minibeasts project for primary pupils.
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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.

Writing lesson activity

This resource includes an activity to hook your secondary school learners into a writing lesson, using a storyboard.

Trade goods introduce me activity

A collaborative, group-focused, role-play activity for learning subject-specific vocabulary.
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Rainforest reading comprehension

A reading comprehension resource about rainforests, including flashcards, gap fills and more.

Bug team game

Let your learners build friendships with this snakes and ladders variation!
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EURO 2020 learner resources

This resource includes substitution tables and flashcards on the EURO 2020 football league that is going to start on 11th June 2021. Teach your learners about player positions and participating countries with our flashcards, and let them express their views on who will win using our simple and expanded sentence creators.

Subject-specific vocabulary booklet

An image-based vocabulary booklet for teaching some key maths vocabulary.
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Plant and animal cells flashcards

Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Plant and animal cells

Home school diary

An English Language Learning Diary with blank pages to add in your own topics.

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.

Adjective flashcards

Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Adjectives

Collaborative role-play resource

Instructions and resources for a collaborative role-play activity with EAL learners in class.
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Adverbs flashcards

Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Adverbs

Writing frame for comparative essays

A helpful writing frame for comparative essays, ideal for secondary-level EAL learners.
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Conjunctions - because and so - flashcards

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

'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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Personal pronouns flashcards

Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Personal pronouns

'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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Basic verbs flashcards

Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Basic verbs

Learning to learn resource

Scaffolded flashcards and activities to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Learning to learn

Feelings flashcards

Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Feelings

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.

Classroom instructions flashcards

Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Classroom instructions

New arrival diary template

A useful template to guide a new arrival and their mentor through the first few weeks in a new environment.

EAL teacher guidance

The Learning Village is powered by Across Cultures. These articles are written by specialists in the area of EAL and include free downloads to support differentiation across the curriculum. For all articles, click here. To sign up to the monthly newsletter which includes these articles, click here.

Early Career Framework and EAL
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Using language skills for mathematics
27/03/2022
Four ways to hook in your EAL learners at the start of a writing lesson
23/02/2022
Four ways to hook in your EAL learners at the start of a writing lesson
23/02/2022
The voices that don't get heard: Why a child's mother tongue matters in the classroom
23/01/2022
Online safety for EAL learners
27/11/2021
A holistic approach to recovering lost learning
26/09/2021
Talking to other teachers about EAL
16/08/2021
A sense of familiarity in unfamiliar times
04/07/2021
Memory strategies for language learners
04/06/2021
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