Useful links (crossphase)
Section outline
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Mainstreaming provision
- Integrating students using EAL into mainstream lessons (Bell Foundation)
Assessment
- Assessing first language - read this blog and complete this elearning module
- Assessing English using an EAL-specific tool - see the Bell Foundation EAL assessment framework
Social integration
- Find out about the Young Interpreter Scheme
- Using persona dolls with younger children - read these blogs
Home-school links
- Language phonelines
- Bringing up your child bilingually - download the leaflet (available in several languages)
Planning
Speaking and listening
- Opportunities to respond non-verbally through a voting tool like Plickers
- Ideas for language development (Racing to English from Gordon Ward)
- Capture talk using oral recording device from Talking Products
Reading
- Source dual language resources from Mantra Lingua
WritingA Language guide to transfer errors (for writing)Pupils who are not literate in their first language and who are at the beginning of learning English can demonstrate their learning through talk. See Book Creator which has an audio recording facility alongside other more traditional word processing tools. Book creator is now available in 10 languages. There is an example below about how this tool can be used to support pupils learning EAL.WebsitesEAL Nexus: Great ideas pages. 'Many of the teaching resources on this website refer to various tried and tested approaches and strategies which we recommend for EAL learners.In this section of the website we explain the rationale behind these methodologies and why we call them ‘Great Ideas’.The majority of these approaches can be used with everyone in the class, but they are particularly important for EAL learners because they provide a rich context, additional support, opportunities for collaborative learning and exploratory talk, and all the important features of good practice in meeting the educational needs of EAL learners'Collaborative Learning Project.'Collaborative Learning is practitioner led, has evolved over the last thirty five years and is still evolving. We support a teacher network that shares resources that scaffold talk. Our activities can be used as they are, or tweaked a little to suit different classrooms or they can be an inspiration/a template for you to develop your own resources that we hope you will in turn share with us.'Blogs - Integrating students using EAL into mainstream lessons (Bell Foundation)