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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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10 Ideas for Co-constructing EAL Listening Activities for Beginners
A list of ideas for listening activities that you can use with your learners.
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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.

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.

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

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.

Easter resource
A members-only printable resource about Easter traditions that includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.
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Election resource

A useful resource to use with your new arrivals to talk about local or national elections. Includes speaking, listening, reading and writing activities.

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Empathy cards
A set of printable empathy cards with various reflection questions about language learning and transitional experiences. Works well for learners to get to know each other at the start of the school year, to reflect about experiences or to celebrate international mother tongue day.

Exercise Resource
A resource all about exercise. Includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Game ideas
Need some more EAL games? Find here a number of fun game activities for your EAL and multilingual learners.

Games for young learners
List of games to help young learners practise speaking, listening, reading and writing.
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Healthy eating resource
Flashcards and substitution tables for learning vocabulary and structures related to healthy eating.
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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.

Hygiene text resource

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

International mother language day activities
This game introduces children, in a fun way, to a variety of languages.
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International mother language day activities 2
A wonderful array of activity ideas to celebrate International Mother Language Day with your learners, by special guest author Mary Langford.
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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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EAL teacher guidance

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How do EAL learners become effective writers?
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Teaching pre-literate learners
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SEND support: Past tense
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SEND support: Supporting deaf learners
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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
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