Increase and track pupil’s reading fluency with this easy to use website: Pupils record themselves reading a passage (from a library or create your own) for you to listen to and assess. Comprehension questions for each passage are also available.
Follow our BLOG and contact us directly for support and resources for EAL Pupils. Please find below some useful resources to support EAL pupils remotely during these current school closures.
Combined resources from the Big Bear Banter and P4-7 Induction Packs. Now including lots of links for each topic to online resources eg. online flashcards, animated stories, YouTube videos, songs and interactive games. This document is a live document which will be updated with new online resources.
These strategies have been developed to support pupils to use strategies in their classes to help them to develop and acquire English. They can be downloaded individually or as a zip folder. They were originally developed and sent out to pupils over the year so that they had a weekly strategy to try out.
Attached are some websites to support children at home and also a list of different activities that could be done with parents and by themselves developed by Glasgow EAL.
provide visual stimuli for pupils to write from g. photos, video, artefacts eg Literacy Shed
talk about the structure of English and possible similarities and differences with other languages eg. different word order, articles etc. (Omniglot details some common challenges speakers of other languages have)