Blog: Our Top 10 Inspiring Reads for Teachers this Summer
This blog highlights some of our top EAL articles, blogs, and guidance — perfect picks to include in your summer reading for 2025.
The summer break is the perfect time to catch up on important resources and insights you may have missed during the busy school year.
To make staying updated easier, we’ve compiled a selection of key articles, blogs, and guidance from the past year for you to explore at your own pace.
This collection includes both brief insights and in-depth guidance on topics that matter most to teachers.
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1. Teaching through talk: Embracing emergent language for impact
This article by our trainer Tom Beakes explores the concept of "emergent language" and outlines practical activities, intervention strategies, and teacher techniques to harness these unplanned moments for more engaging, relevant, and effective language learning for EAL learners.
2. Enhancing EAL provision: A guide for school leaders
This best practice article outlines a whole-school framework by our trainers Glynis Lloyd, Sarah Moodie, and Sheila Hopkins for supporting the social, pastoral, and academic needs of multilingual pupils in linguistically diverse classrooms.
3. Essential guidance and strategies for EAL co-ordinators
In our expert pieces below, we share practical advice and proven strategies to support EAL co-ordinators in effectively leading language provision and improving outcomes for EAL learners.
4. Supporting EAL learners through school transitions
Dive into practical guidance for schools and leaders on managing transitions for EAL learners to ensure smooth adjustments and ongoing language development.
5. Supporting EAL and SEND students: Six effective strategies for teachers
We recently launched guidance for teachers in planning interventions for learners who use EAL, including key things to consider beforehand, pointers on effective interventions, and some helpful case studies.
6. EAL in early years settings: Guidance and strategies
This resource offers insights into effective EAL pedagogy, emphasizing multilingualism as an asset, setting high expectations with appropriate support, integrating language and content, implementing effective assessment, and promoting social inclusion.
7. Blog: Seven ways to ensure oracy programmes are effective for EAL learners
Explore seven actionable strategies to enhance oracy programmes, ensuring they effectively support EAL learners by recognising linguistic diversity, tailoring support to proficiency levels, and promoting multilingualism.
8. Supporting multilingual and refugee families: Practical guidance for schools
In these resources we share effective strategies to engage and support multilingual and refugee families both in and out of school. They offer practical ideas for building strong partnerships with families, fostering inclusive school communities, and addressing the unique challenges faced by refugee learners and their caregivers.
9. Whole-school self-evaluation for EAL provision
Find out how the Whole-School Self-Evaluation Toolkit helps schools reflect on and improve their EAL provision across eight key areas — from leadership and policies to teaching and family involvement — through a collaborative, evidence-based process.
10. Kindness is a Superpower: Resources for supporting refugee learners
Discover a range of resources designed to help educators build inclusive, welcoming environments for refugee and asylum-seeking learners. This collection includes a webinar on harnessing community support, a video blog featuring the voices of young refugees, Beacon Award success stories, and practical teaching materials — all aimed at fostering kindness and belonging in schools.