Topic outline

• General
  

  General

  Download a copy of the Bell Foundation EAL Assessment Framework for primary and secondary age pupils and the associated support strategies document - look for detail within the C, D and E Bands - visit the download section here
  

  • Announcements Forum
• Aide-mémoire of best practice principles
  

  Aide-mémoire of best practice principles

  Best practice for more advanced learners of EAL - those at a later stage of acquiring English (Bands C, D and E)

  
  

  This aide-mémoire makes reference to many different strategies and resources (more information and examples can be found further down the page).
  

  • Best practice for advanced EAL learners (cross-phase) File
• Supporting advanced EAL learners Videoscribe
  

  Supporting advanced EAL learners Videoscribe

  • Advanced EAL Learners Videoscribe narration File
• Theoretical underpinning knowledge
  

  Theoretical underpinning knowledge

  About BICS and CALP

  
  

  The Untold Science of Reading - Webinar by Jim Cummins hosted by SavvasLearning

  • View presentation slides URL
• General ideas
  

  General ideas

  • Use of images across the curriculum File
  • Ideas for language development (Racing to English from Gordon Ward) URL
  • Great Idea: Barrier Games (EAL Nexus) URL
  • Kidrex - safe search engine (find suitable sources of information for kids) URL
• Vocabulary development
  

  Vocabulary development

  Wordsift - this tool was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. From a bunch of text It creates a word cloud, visual thesaurus and text marks keywords, as well as grabbing related images.

  

  • Wordsift URL
  • Word clouds (how to guide) File
  • Jenga (how to guide - based on examination words) File
  • Bingo (how to guide - based on plant keywords) File
  • Word:definition matching games (how to guide - using Formulator Tarsia) File
  • Formulator Tarsia source files (Zip)
• Developing reading and viewing
  

  Developing reading and viewing

  Find out below about 'Close Reading' and how this might benefit EAL learners
  

  
  

  • Use of infographics File
  • 9 Generic activities for exploiting infographics, Blog by Nik Peachey URL
  • DARTS - Scrambling up sentences and paragraphs File
  • Simple English Wikipedia URL
• Supporting and modelling writing
  

  Supporting and modelling writing

  • Exploiting Infographics for ELT - Nick Peachey (Blog) URL
  • Dictogloss (how to guide - based on persuasion) File
  • Comics for developing writing (Comic Life) File
  • Using ‘Telescopic Text’ to develop the writing of more advanced EAL learners (AELs) and non-EAL peers File
  • Living graphs File
  • Multimodal Concept Drawings: Engaging EAL Learners in Brainstorming about Course Terms (link to Academia.edu for pdf download) URL
  • A Language Guide to Transfer Errors (in writing) URL
  • Writing Frames (Maureen Lewis and David Wray) URL
  • Substitution Tables File
• Specific examples of the use of ICTs
  

  Specific examples of the use of ICTs

  • Ideas for using oral recording devices File
  • EAL and Immersive Games (video and research report) from EAL Nexus URL
• Useful links
  

  Useful links

  Supporting advanced learners of English as an additional language (Hampshire EMTAS Website). This webpage also hosts 'Ensuring the attainment of more advanced learners of English as an additional language: CPD modules from The National Strategies (2009).

  The 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.'

  EAL 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'

  EMTAS Blogs tagged by 'Advanced learners'
  

  Johnathan Bifield’s blog of great ideas - 70 Ideas as of June 2020