Resource Library

• 13 July 2026

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.

• 22 June 2026

To mark Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller History Month, we sat down with Sue Wardell, Director of Operations and Development at Suffolk Law Centre, one of our partners and currently in the third year of our grant funded programme which aims to make legal services more accessible to the local Roma community.

• 9 June 2026

As part of our Practitioner Voices blog series, we invite our Licensed Practitioners from across the UK to write about their learnings, advice, and thoughts on EAL practice in their setting. Our first guest blog is written by Karolina Piera-Harris, who discusses how a book inspired teaching primary pupils about refugee perspectives.

• 5 June 2026

Refugee Week 2026 focuses on the theme of Courage. Courage isn’t always loud or bold. It can be found in simple acts. To support this, we’ve brought together a range of EAL resources that reflect the courage of learners from refugee or asylum-seeking background

• KS1 / KS2 / KS3 / KS4 / KS5

The Bell Foundation's policy briefing on strengthening outcomes for learners who use English as an Additional Language (EAL) who also have a SEND

• 23 April 2026

From the time children are born, they are surrounded by the sounds, rhythms, intonation, and pronunciation of the language in their immediate environment. Their early years are marked by language development through listening and talking, providing a foundation for learning to read and write. This knowledge about language acquisition and literacy learning is helpful when we consider what multilingual learners who use English as an Additional Language (EAL) need when they are learning to read in English.