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The EAL Toolkit – Free Resource
Support Your EAL Learners Whatever Their Level of English Language Development Viewed and Downloaded 300,000+ Times by Teachers Around the World 🎯 Build your confidence and skillset around teaching EAL…
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Turn difference to your advantage by using it to help EAL learners quickly and securely grab hold of new words and ideas
‘Compare and Contrast’ EAL Strategy: Explanation and Rationale Meaning is based on difference. If something is one thing, it is that and nothing else. A cat is a cat in…
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Bring the underlying patterns of language to the surface and help your EAL learners see more clearly how English works – and how they can master it
‘Word Relationships’ EAL Strategy: Explanation and Rationale ‘Oh dear,’ said the old dear looking at the stuffed deer in the window. ‘What’s wrong dearie?’ said her friend, Deirdre. ‘It’s just…
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Help your EAL learners create order from chaos by giving them a way to make sense of the new words they encounter
‘Word Taxonomies’ EAL Strategy: Explanation and Rationale Taxonomies are a way of dividing information into ordered groups or categories. They are a method of systematization in which similar things are…
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Give reading a purpose and watch as your EAL learners are happier to persist, keep going, and work their way through more challenging texts
‘Purpose for Reading’ EAL Strategy: Explanation and Rationale Most reading is done for a purpose. It could be for pleasure, for learning, or to find out information. If it is…
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Call on the visual immediacy of the humble highlighter to help your EAL learners read with greater confidence and skill
‘Pre-Highlight’ EAL Strategy: Explanation and Rationale When faced with an unfamiliar text, there are various strategies we can use. We might decide to read everything through and then begin again,…