Empowering teachers to support children for whom English is an additional language
Explore the range of EAL teaching strategies and resources designed to
make planning and teaching easier and help your pupils achieve the 4
Ps;
- make accelerated progress
- fulfil their potential
- be motivated and proactive learners
- be proud of their identity and language skills
SPEAKING AND LISTENING
Encourage confident and accurate talk through the use of talk frames, paired activities and collaborative group tasks.
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READING
Guidance on how to scaffold children's talk through the use of talk frames, oral rehearsal and interactive activities.
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PARENT LINKS
Engage parent in their children's learning by keeping them informed, creating two-way communication channels and celebrating success.
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WRITING
Develop your pupils writing skills through effective use of talk strategies, specific teaching of academic language and motivating writing tasks.
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Support pupils to maintain their home langauge as they learn English and to see it as an asset.
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Effective differentiation, that supports pupils' learning whilst not over-simplifiying concepts is a challenge but a key to effective teaching.
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Guidance to support initial assessment of new arrivals, ongoing monitoring of progress and the use of formative assessment within lessons.
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Explore EAL theory including development of basic interpersonal communication skills (BICS) and Cognitive academic langauge proficiency (CALP).
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Check out this range of online learning games, selected to support pupils in developing their vocabulary and sentence skills
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Browse the ICT resources that can support pupils' learning and aide communication with parents
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Explore the range of wall displays and strategies for enhancing the comprehension and learning of your EAL pupils
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Free online audio stories can support the language development of pupils at all stages of development, enabling them to access higher level texts
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