Creating an inclusive learning environment for students who have English as their additional language can be key to helping them feel settled and supported. With that in mind, we have gathered together a selection of teaching strategies and basic vocabulary packs you could use in your classroom to support EAL pupils.
Supporting EAL students in a mixed-language classroom
Support EAL students with this collection of strategy mats and language worksheets
Strategies to support EAL learners
The 5 Minute EAL Student Support Plan
Building on Ross McGill's 5 minute lesson plan, the EAL plan is designed to reduce planning time & focus on learning for EAL students. It includes "Model Phrases" - What do you want your EAL learners to be able to say? Please tweet me for any advice or with any questions @LessonToolbox...
EAL Toolkit
The EAL Toolkit provides over 50 strategies for helping learners across the Key Stages who are learning English as an additional language. Each strategy is explained and accompanied by an illustration to aid memory. The strategies are non-subject and non-age specific. No more searching for EAL ideas...
EAL Strategies Mat
This is a compilation of activities, strategies and methods of differentiation to include EAL students in mainstream English.
EAL? BASICS ! Gail's Primary checklist
`At a glance' page with ideas (gleaned from years of experience) on how to support an EAL pupil in school.Start anywhere at the top of the page and work down!
Equip learners with language skills
ESOL/ESL/EFL/EAL Transport and Travel
Complete beginner level unit on the topic of transport and travel for students learning English. No prep- just print and teach. Contains over 21 pages of activities, exercises and texts that will help students learn vocabulary about transport, ask questions at stations, recognise signs on the road...
EAL Starter Pack 2: Home
This pack contains a selection of EAL resources suitable for newly arrived KS1 and KS2 pupils with little or no English. The focus for this pack is to help EAL beginners to learn key vocabulary associated with home. The pack almost 50 worksheets with activities linked to more than 60 words. Activiti...
EAL Toolkit
An A4 double sided booklet I created in Google Slides, using symbols from thenounproject.com, with key vocabulary for new learners of English.
EAL VOCABULARY
EAL Vocabulary helps children with very little English to increase their vocabulary and to learn the basic words they need in their everyday lives. The themes covered are clothes, mealtimes and things in the classroom. The words used are those suggested to us by EAL and EFL teachers. In addition ...
English Classroom vocabulary games, activities, puzzles for EFL EAL ESL
48 pages of fun English resources to teach classroom vocabulary. Great for a 'back to school' project, This set includes: \* Suggestions for use in the classroom. \* Write around the room - 16 half page pictures to hide around the room and two different styles of worksheet (one interactive not...