EAL teaching strategies
Empowering teachers to support pupils for whom
English is an additional language

Guidance on how to scaffold children's talk through the use of talk frames, oral rehearsal and interactive activities.

Develop your pupils' writing skills through effective use of talk strategies, specific teaching of academic language and motivating writing tasks.

Encourage confident and accurate talk through the use of talk frames, paired activities and collaborative group tasks.

Engage parent in their children's learning by keeping them informed, creating two-way communication channels and celebrating success.

Support pupils to maintain their home langauge as they learn English and to see it as an asset.

Effective differentiation, that supports pupils' learning whilst not over-simplifiying concepts is a challenge but a key to effective teaching.

Guidance to support initial assessment of new arrivals, ongoing monitoring of progress and the use of formative assessment within lessons.

Explore EAL theory including development of basic interpersonal communication skills (BICS) and Cognitive academic langauge proficiency (CALP).

Check out this range of online learning games, selected to support pupils in developing their vocabulary and sentence skills 

Browse the ICT resources that can support pupils' learning and aide communication with parents

Explore the range of wall displays and strategies for enhancing the comprehension and learning of your EAL pupils

Free online audio stories can support the language development of pupils at all stages of development, enabling them to access higher level texts