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This blog highlights some of our top blogs, resources, guidance, and webinars to help encourage a love of reading and to support EAL learners to develop their reading skills.
Emily Hanson, Head of Education at First News gives advice for how reading can foster belonging for multilingual learners who are new to English, with ideas for both primary and secondary settings. Much of the National Year of Reading conversation has centred on fiction. Here is the case for non-fiction and current affairs, and five practical ways to bring them into your classroom.
In her latest article for Schools Week, Director of Programmes and Partnerships Katherine Solomon discusses the inclusion of EAL in Ofsted’s “similar schools”. She explains why understanding a child’s English proficiency can provide valuable context and help schools identify how best to support EAL learners to access the curriculum and achieve their potential.
How does it feel to suddenly leave all that you know and travel far away to a new place with a new language and different ways to do things? What did the family travel in and what happened in the forest? Find out in this interactive and visual resource that follows the story of a mother and her two children who experience this.
For our next Practitioner Voices blog series, we hear from Alexandra Slater, EAL and Inclusion Manager at Meadow Park School and Marilena Richards, Advisory Teacher from Ethnic Minority Achievement Service (EMAS), Coventry City Council, about their new paired reading intervention to strengthen the literacy skills and confidence of EAL learners.
Take a look at five recommended EAL reads to inform and inspire your practice over the summer holidays.