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Bilingual vocabulary sheet
Practical strategies to help you to promote the use of mother tongue in your classroom.
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Birthday customs around the world resource

A useful resource to use with your new arrivals to talk about different birthday customs around the world. Includes speaking, listening, reading and writing activities.

Bug team game
Let your learners build friendships with this snakes and ladders variation!
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Celebrating amazing women scaffolded resource
A great resource about female role models and their characteristics. Includes speaking, listening, reading and writing activities. Great for International Women's Day.

Celebrating Cultural Diversity Resource
An incredible, in depth resource celebrating cultural diversity, with activities for speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Christmas Customs Resource
A resource all about Christmas customs around the world. Includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.
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Christmas Resource
A resource all about Christmas. Includes resources for speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Class language survey
This resource includes a class language survey that can be used with your learners to gather information about the languages spoken in their class and how they are used with different people.

Classroom instructions flashcards
Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Classroom instructions

CLIL lesson plan
A planning template for a CLIL (content and language integrated learning) lesson with an example on how it can be used.
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Collaborative planning document
Plan collaboratively with your subject-specific colleagues to gain overviews and multi-subject links.
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Collaborative role-play resource
Instructions and resources for a collaborative role-play activity with EAL learners in class.

Conjunctions - because and so - flashcards
Scaffolded flashcards to lead learners in steps from speaking and listening to writing. Topic: Conjunctions because and so

Correction code
A simple marking code for marking the work of lower-ability groups of EAL learners, which both you and your learners can quickly understand.
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Cross-curricular planner
Medium-term cross-curricular planner for learning content and language. This PDF is interactive so can be filled out digitally, or printed off.
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EAL Learners' Writing Assessment Checklist
A useful checklist of things you should and might consider when planning a writing assessment for your EAL learners.
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EAL progress review grid
A useful proforma to record the progress of your EAL pupils.
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EAL scheme of work
A scheme of work for providing new-to-English learners with survival language and curriculum content.
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EAL welcome book
An EAL Welcome Book which can be customised to suit your and your learner's needs and circumstances.
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EAL Wellbeing Resource
An EAL Wellbeing Resource that introduces EAL learners to the vocabulary and language structures they need to understand and talk about their feelings, and importantly, to access support. It covers simple mental health vocabulary and communication techniques.

EAL teacher guidance

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