Handy sheet for pupils to remind them of spelling rules in English.
Resources: Literacy Support
Shared Resources for History – Mohenjo Daro
The following resources have been shared by Steve Cooke, ex-chair of NALDIC for you to use in your classroom. If you have any resources you would like to share please send them in to EAL Highland.
Plan of the Citadel of Mohenjo listening
- For: ESOL, History, P5 - 7
- Language: English
- Purpose: Literacy Support
Shared Resources for Music
The following resources have been shared by Steve Cooke, ex-chair of NALDIC for you to use in your classroom. If you have any resources you would like to share please send them in to EAL Highland.
Timeline – John Lennon info gap
- For: ESOL, Music, P5 - 7
- Language: English
- Purpose: Literacy Support
Shared Resources for English and ESOL
The following resources have been shared by Steve Cooke, ex-chair of NALDIC for you to use in your classroom. If you have any resources you would like to share please send them in to EAL Highland.
Listen and fill in the missing verbs – Alex’s holiday
Sequencing short phrases activity to create a Snail poem
Matching questions to parts of text – Penguins live in the Antarctic
Shared Resources for Maths
The following resources have been shared by Steve Cooke, ex-chair of NALDIC for you to use in your classroom. If you have any resources you would like to share please send them in to EAL Highland.
Maths resources 1b – England Jamaica what crops can you grow
Maths resources – England Jamaica climate graphs
Maths word problems – World Cup Time Differences Brazil
Maths word problems – Basketball scores with answers
- For: ESOL, Geography, Maths, P5 - 7
- Language: English
- Purpose: Literacy Support, Numeracy Support
Shared Resources for Modern Studies
The following resources have been shared by Steve Cooke, ex – chair of NALDIC. Feel free to use in your classroom, and also to send us resources that you have developed and would like to share with others.
Martin Luther King I Have A Dream text
Timeline – Civil Rights facts and cards
Timeline – Civil Rights blank with dates
Problem Solution using writing frame – global warming
- For: ESOL, Modern Studies, P5 - 7
- Language: English
- Purpose: Literacy Support
Read All About It! News and Current Affairs Sites for Learning English
Here are some links to useful websites that can be used for the teaching of EAL Pupils.
News In Levels is an American site that has different news stories that are pitched at 3 different levels. Key words are highlighted and explained and there are accompanying You Tube clips of the news stories being read out .
Breaking News has 7 different levels and accompanying question sheets that could be used for homework and getting pupils to think about the news story in more detail.
New Internationalist is a well known magazine looking at stories from the developing world. They have adapted their stories to be written in simpler English to be more accessible to pupils. Useful for developing Global Citizenship approaches in EAL teaching.
If anyone comes across further sites that may be useful, please post them in a comment to share.
- For: English, ESOL, Geography, Modern Studies, P5 - 7, Secondary
- Purpose: Best Practice, Literacy Support
Hello and Goodbye Songs
Here are a couple of audio files with the Hello and Goodbye songs that are used in Teddy Talk session.
Use any song, but it’s important to include names and ask how they are:
Hello Song
Hello, hello, how are you? Piotr, Piotr
Hello, hello, how are you? How are you today?
(Wait for a response, thumbs “I’m good” or thumbs down “I’m not good”)
Goodbye Song (to the tune of Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush)
Now it’s time to say goodbye, say goodbye, say goodbye
Now it’s time to say goodbye, goodbye Piotr (or you could use the name of the objects going back into the bag)
Kodaly Hello Song
These songs have been slightly adapted from the songs used in Kodaly sessions. If you slap your knees and then clap your hands to the beat this is good for rhythm development too.
Kodaly Goodbye song
- For: Nursery - P1
- Purpose: Best Practice, Literacy Support
Smartboard Resources
EAL Highland have developed some Smartboard Resources to support Teddy Talk and Big Bear Banter activities. Sadly, the file type cannot be imported into the Blog so if you would like a copy of any of these please contact peter.fenton@highland.gov.uk with your email address and which resource you would like to see and he will send it on as an attachment.
If anyone develops their own Smartboard resources then please share with Peter. Thanks.
- Elmer’s Colours
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Daily Routines
- For: Nursery - P1, P2 - 4, Primary
- Purpose: Games, Interactive, Literacy Support
Big Bear Banter
Our Teddy Talk activities for nurseries have just grown up!
Big Bear Banter is a series of activities for pupils in P1 to P3 who are new to English. They include flashcard activities, story activities and using songs and rhymes. There are a host of different topics and links to further resources.
The BBB resources are now part of the New to English EAL Induction Pack for Primary. The pack now includes links to online resources eg. online flashcards, animated stories, YouTube videos, songs and interactive games.
N.B. This document is a live document which is currently being updated.
As always if you find additional resources or make up your own topics then please share them with us and we can add them to the pack.
Record Keeping Sheets
Here are some record sheets to keep track of sessions that are taking place for Big Bear Banter in your setting.
Big Bear banter Record of Activities
- For: Nursery - P1, P2 - 4, Primary
- Purpose: Best Practice, Flashcards, Literacy Support