A useful checklist for before and during your parents' meetings.
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A simple marking code for marking the work of lower-ability groups of EAL learners, which both you and your learners can quickly understand.
Plan collaboratively with your subject-specific colleagues to gain overviews and multi-subject links.
Leveled activity bank for non-fiction text engagement, using Bloom's Taxonomy ladders.
A list of story-telling stages with suggested ideas to excite your learners.
Questions and substitution tables to prepare learners for Science lessons.
Key questions that parents can ask their children in their home language to aid learning.
List of games to help young learners practise speaking, listening, reading and writing.
Ideas for parents who are supporting a child attending a new school.
EAL learning record to track the strategic use of flashcards.
A scheme of work for providing new-to-English learners with survival language.
Tricky word learning activities for younger learners (easily adapted for older learners).
Printable flashcards for learning phonics tricky words.
An ideas checklist of tried and tested ways to motivate your learners.
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.
A series of question starters and responses for dialogic teaching that you might want to print off and refer to when planning lessons.
A guide for teachers and assisting adults to achieve effective EAL support in the classroom.
A planning template for a CLIL (content and language integrated learning) lesson with an example on how it can be used.
Essentials on how to create a language learning environment in your classroom.
Practical strategies to help you to promote the use of mother tongue in your classroom.
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.
Phonics tricky word assessment for phases 2 to 5.
Examples about how to consider elements of EAL pedagogy when planning lessons for the topic of ‘online English’, including vocabulary and language structure flashcards.
A personal mistakes profile template for marking and giving learners feedback on their written work.
A list of questions for a bilingual support partner to use when supporting families.
A template for reflection on the quality of your provision and next steps.
An initial Maths assessment for EAL pupils to identify gaps in learning.
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Learner resources
Vocabulary for hygiene, infection and cleanliness, using an instructional genre.
Text-based deconstruction and reconstruction activities for learners. Topic: Hygiene.
Flashcards and substitution tables for learning vocabulary and structures related to healthy eating.
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.
This game introduces children, in a fun way, to a variety of languages.
A collaborative, group-focused, role-play activity for learning subject-specific vocabulary.
Let your learners build friendships with this snakes and ladders variation!
An image-based vocabulary booklet for teaching some key maths vocabulary.
Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Adjectives
Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Adverbs
Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Conjunctions because and so
Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Personal pronouns
Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Basic verbs
Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Feelings
Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Classroom instructions
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