As another school year comes to a close, with it brings an opportunity to reflect on what we've learned and consider priorities for the year ahead.
To help support those reflections, we've selected five articles that offer practical insights, evidence, and ideas for educators working with multilingual learners in UK schools.
We hope these provide inspiration ready for the new year.
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1. Interview with Ofsted Inspector Mark Sims: “It is important that all teachers see themselves as teachers of EAL”
With EAL now back in the Ofsted toolkit, we sat down with Mark Sims, former His Majesty’s Inspector, to find out what this means in practice and how schools can best showcase their tailored provision for schoolchildren who don’t speak English as their first language.
2.What do multilingual learners need when they’re learning to read in English?
Policy and Practice Officer, Glynis Lloyd shares practical thinking behind effective, EAL‑inclusive reading practice and key ways for supporting multilingual learners as readers.
3. Nurturing a linguistically inclusive school for multilingual learners
Multilingual learners who are new to English or in the early acquisition stages face the double challenge of learning English and learning in English. This blog explores how busy primary schools can support these learners and enable them to meet those challenges.
4. Blog: How can schools embrace students’ Home, Heritage, and Community languages?
Marking International Mother Language Day, this blog highlights how embracing students' Home, Heritage, and Community languages boosts belonging, confidence, and attainment while offering practical ways schools can support multilingual learners.
5. The Teacher’s Bookshelf: CPD titles to support your literacy teaching
As part of the Literacy Hive(opens in new tab) blog series, The Teacher’s Bookshelf, our Learning Designer and Educator Karen Warwick shares with teachers the books that have made a real difference to her work to support EAL learners.