Support Your EAL Learners Whatever Their Level of English Language Development
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🎯 Build your confidence and skillset around teaching EAL learners.
🎯 Dozens of strategies to support EAL learners in primary and secondary classrooms.
🎯 Increase engagement and enjoyment of EAL learners in your lessons.
🎯 Discover techniques you can use with EAL learners, whether they are only just starting to learn English, or are already fluent.
🎯 Enjoy finding new ways to make your EAL learners feel fully included in the lessons you plan – and in wider school life.
When I started teaching, the school in which I worked had learners from 60+ countries and backgrounds.
The EAL team were a remarkable force for good, helping countless learners rapidly develop their English language skills.
And we as classroom teachers had to be on the money as well, doing as much as possible to help our EAL learners, whether they were brand new to English or highly fluent.
It was after this grounding in supporting EAL learners that I put together The EAL Toolkit.
I wanted to create a resource that any teacher could pick up and use to help make their life easier, and improve outcomes for their EAL learners.
50+ Strategies that Make Supporting Your EAL Learners Easier Than Ever
Inside the toolkit, you’ll find techniques you can use with learners who are just starting out on their English language journey, as well strategies you can use with advanced level speakers – and everyone in between.
I wanted to ensure teachers could find multiple techniques relevant to them and their learners, wherever they might be working.
Whether you’re an experienced teacher of EAL learners or new to the challenge, you’ll find lots of strategies you can deploy in your lessons.
And you’ll also discover that many of them are beneficial for other learners as well.
Particularly those with low levels of literacy, or who struggle with one aspect of literacy, be that reading, writing, speaking or listening.
The resource is FREE to download and FREE to use.
It is published by Gershon Learning Limited under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Creative Commons license.
That means you can download it, freely share it and redistribute it with attribution and a link to this site, but you cannot use it for commercial purposes or create any derivatives of it.
Download The EAL Toolkit Today
Here’s the PDF version for you to download FREE:
What’s Inside?
Here’s a sneak peak of some of the strategies, activities and techniques waiting for you inside The EAL Toolkit:
- 🎯 Buddy Up
- 🎯 Picture Rules
- 🎯 Rehearsal
- 🎯 Concrete Starters
- 🎯 Support the Teacher
- 🎯 Thinking Time
- 🎯 Pre-Highlight
- 🎯 First Language
- 🎯 Allocate Roles
- 🎯 Plenary Prime
- 🎯 Barrier Games
- 🎯 Belonging
- 🎯 Language Types
- 🎯 Thinking Together
- 🎯 Linguistic Diversity
Using the EAL Toolkit in Your Planning
The EAL Toolkit is non-directive and curriculum agnostic.
You can use the strategies and techniques inside any way you like.
Here are three ideas to get you started.
✅ Identify a handful of strategies you feel are most closely matched to the current needs of your EAL learners.
Focus on implementing these over the course of a few weeks.
Assess the impact and, where appropriate, seek feedback from your EAL learners.
✅ Pick the one aspect of literacy – speaking, listening, reading or writing – you feel is most pressing for your EAL learners.
Identify relevant strategies within the toolkit and use some or all of these to support your learners in developing this particular aspect.
✅ Identify a strategy within the toolkit that is connected to lesson planning (for example, including images on slides and handouts).
Work through your upcoming lessons and make tweaks and adaptations designed to help your EAL learners better access the learning and develop their English-language skills.
P.S. You can access all my resources in one place on the free resources hub page.
P.P.S. For dozens of strategies, ideas and guides on how to support EAL learners, check out my free Teaching EAL Learners Knowledge Base.
