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Hygiene text resource

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

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

Mary Seacole Resource
A resource all about Mary Seacole, the Jamaican Florence Nightingale. Includes flashcards, an early literacy activity and reading comprehension and fluency activities.

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.

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

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

Punctuation explained resource
A resource explaining different types of punctuation in a simple manner, including examples.

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

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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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.

Swimming Sports Resource
A resource all about Swimming Sports. Includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.
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Talking about bullying Resource
A resource all about the language we use to speak about bullying.

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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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.

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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