English as an Additional Language Team (EAL Team)

Over 75 different languages are currently spoken by pupils in Falkirk Council’s Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) Centres and Schools. The EAL team is part of the Additional Support Needs Outreach Service and works with pupils whose first or home language is not English.

We support pupils who are enrolling in or who are already attending a Falkirk Council ELC centre/class or school. Our support helps pupils who may be beginners in English or pupils who speak English more fluently but are not achieving their full academic potential. We are in collaboration with schools and families to meet the needs of learners for whom English is an additional language.

Recording EAL on SEEMiS

SEEMiS data provides numbers, language(s) spoken and English language levels of pupils with EAL both to the authority and to the government in their scotXed report. It is important that this data is maintained on a regular basis, to support the Council in its strategic developments and planning.

Notice

In addition to recording the languages spoken by the learner, the English language level needs to be recorded otherwise the system records English as a “First-language”. If the language levels are not yet known then use the ‘not assessed’ option.

For more information, please contact us: EAL@falkirk.gov.uk

Click on the links below to get to the sections on this page:

Early Learning and Childcare – Resources and information for practitioners working within an ELC setting

Schools – Resources and information for practitioners working within school settings

Parents/Carers – Resources and information for parents/carers

Early Learning and Childcare

Welcome to our EAL Blog.

Language is the heart of children’s learning. Young children experience a language explosion between the ages of 3 and 6. No wonder communication and language development are key areas of learning in early years settings.

Children’s earliest language is acquired in the home and early years settings build on that foundation. Each child brings to nursery his/ her own experience of language whereby language is not merely a means of communication but is very much linked to identity. Children’s home language should be valued and celebrated.

Families use at home the language they are most comfortable with and we should never question this. On the contrary, we should encourage parents to talk, read, rhyme, sing, play and have fun together in their home language. Furthermore, it is important to allow children to express themselves in a language that they are comfortable with during free play and social activities.

In an Early Years setting you can explore different languages, have fun with languages. At this age most children are ready and excited to be exposed to another language. You can learn together greetings, numbers or colours in community languages. Listen to ‘Head, shoulders, knee and toes’ in different language versions and still be able to do the actions.

You are helping all children with their English language development, this is your bread and butter. In an Early Years setting you are in a very stimulating environment so children can use all their senses to learn. You model language and provide stimulation for communication. Here are some key strategies that foster English language learning and these strategies you are already using when communicating with all children:

Speak clearly and calmly
Address the child you are talking to
Make eye contact
Repeat sentences back to children, replacing mistakes with corrections
Repeat sentences back to children, expanding on the words they’ve used
Describe and comment on what you are doing
Describe and comment on what the children are doing
Listen carefully when the children are talking to you – be patient and give them plenty of time to find their words

Have a look at the resources here on the blog for further ideas and strategies.

EAL Service Guidance

CLPL – link

Support Strategies – link

Collecting and Recording Information – link

Resources – link

Valuing Home Language – link

CLPL

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, face-to-face CLPL sessions are on hold for the time being however please contact a member of the EAL team with any questions or to arrange on-line sessions for you or your setting.

Support Strategies

EAL Booklet from Scottish Border Council

This booklet from the Scottish Borders gives background information on the ‘silent period’, support strategies for listening and talking for young bilingual learners, using stories, ICT and many other ways to develop language. It also highlights the importance of involving parents and how this can be addressed. Should you have concerns about English language acquisition, following the guidance in the booklet will help you identify if support is required from other agencies.

Support for bilingual pupils in early years settings Toolkit – PowerPoint

Teddy Talk, Highland Council

Teddy Talk is a structured language development programme for EAL pupils in nursery schools. It is adapted from the original CHAT (Communication , Help and Awareness Team) programme provided by various Speech & Language Therapy services in Scotland. Lesson plans and visuals can be downloaded from their website.

http://ealhighland.org.uk/resources/teddy-talk-narrative-based-language-development-programme-eal-children-nursery-school/

Collecting and Recording Information

EAL Enrolment Meeting Summary Sheet – ELC

The nursery enrolment language profile should be used in conjunction with the Council Enrolment form for all children.

It has been designed to allow nursery staff to use the initial meeting with parents and an interpreter to ask questions, and find out other relevant information, about a child whose first language is not English.

The idea is that it is a guide to the conversation that you are having with the parents, not that it should be sent away to be completed. Of course you will have thought of these questions yourself but we hope it will be a handy aide-memoire at the initial parents’ meeting.

We have introduced this form because this information cannot be gathered in the usual way through informal chats or conversation with the parent or child because of the language barrier.

It is hoped that this will build a good foundation for nursery and allow the staff to settle the child more easily and lead to lots of happy learning.

EAL Development – Planning and Tracking Sheet ELC

This form allows you to track the progress of language development in talking, listening and early literacy and numeracy. It also indicates some social/emotional development areas as well as providing a tool to plan appropriate learning experiences.

Language Levels -Descriptor ELC

This form describes how the broad stages in language development are identified. Progression from stage 1 to Stage 5 can take up to 10 years and individuals are likely to show characteristics of more than one ‘stage’ at one time.

Working with Interpreters – Best Practise Guidelines

This form covers when to book an interpreter and best practise tips.

Resources

Picture Fan (pupils) – link

Picture fan (staff) – link

Routine cards – link

Picture fans and routine cards give the pupil a visual hook to aid communication throughout the day.

Dual-language books / Home language books from LRS

To access Library Support for Schools library catalogue, staff can use the OLIVER system in schools or contact them directly:

Tel.: 01324 501980

LRS@falkirk.gov.uk

Valuing Home Language

The Language of the Month

https://www.newburyparkschool.net/lotm/index.html

Interactive video clips showing children teaching their home language. More than 65 languages are introduced.

Furthermore, The Language of the Month website offers lots of FREE resources for promoting language awareness, for instance, resources for putting language displays, a booklet with 100+ ideas of celebrating community languages and lots more.

Children’s rhymes and songs, counting songs in different languages

www.youtube.com

Dual language posters (English phrase or keyword with translation in 18 plus languages

Days of the week, name of months, colours, numbers 1 to 10 available in Polish, Spanish, French and German

http://www.schoolslinks.co.uk/resources_dl.htm

Dual-language books / Home language books – link to LRS

To access Library Support for Schools library catalogue, staff can use the OLIVER system in schools or contact them directly:

Tel.: 01324 501980

LRS@falkirk.gov.uk

Storybook UK is a free open educational resource that promotes literacy and language learning in homes, schools, and communities. Part of the Global Storybooks project, it makes 40 stories from the African Storybook available with text and audio in English and the most widely spoken languages of the UK. Share and enjoy!

https://global-asp.github.io/storybooks-uk/

Unite Books are short, colourful, and easy to understand with picture/text format and narration in English and over 40 other languages. New books and languages are added every month.

https://www.uniteforliteracy.com/

The International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL)

A free online library of digitized children’s books in many languages from various countries. Designed specifically for use by children ages 3 to13. It provides free access to high-quality books from around the world.

http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

WorldStories is a growing collection of stories from around the world. The collection includes retold traditional tales and new short stories in different languages. New stories, translations, pictures and sound recordings are added every week.

https://worldstories.org.uk/

Multilingual Families

Multilingual Families is an international project that helps parents bring up their children multilingually.

Introduction to parents: Why raise my children multilingually?

Available in 24 languages: Arabic, BKS, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, English, Euskera, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese.

http://www.multilingual-families.eu/home

Hold On to your Home Language!

The booklet is available in 26 languages.

https://www.ryerson.ca/mylanguage/brochures/

Online training

Supporting Bilingualism and EAL

This online learning opportunity has been developed in partnership with Education Scotland, Glasgow City Council and SCILT (Scotland’s National Centre for Languages)

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/supportingbilingualism/

Further Useful Websites

LearnEnglish Kids is a British Council website with lots of free online games, songs, stories and activities for children.

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/

SCHOOLS

Welcome to our EAL Blog. We hope you find the contents helpful if you have an EAL pupil in your class for the first time or are just wishing to further develop your own knowledge to support pupils in your class. It is our experience that schools already provide a welcoming and supportive environment in which EAL pupils can develop their oral and literacy development in English. The learning of all pupils can be enriched by valuing and respecting the cultural and linguistic identities of EAL pupils and through good practice in the use of visual, concrete, interactive and collaborative activities suitable for EAL learners. It is important to remember, that although new to English, bilingual children bring with them a rich and highly developed linguistic knowledge which provides strong foundations and transferable language skills.

EAL Service Guidance for Schools – Link

CLPL – link

Support Strategies – link

Collecting and Recording Information – link

Resources – link

Valuing Home Language – link

CLPL

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, face-to-face CLPL are on hold for the time being, however please contact us with any questions or to arrange on-line sessions for you or your setting.

Support Strategies

Support for Bilingual Pupils in Primary Toolkit- link (PowerPoint)

Support for Bilingual Pupils in Secondary Toolkit (Powerpoint)- link

Collaborative Learning develops, shares and disseminates talk for learning activities in all subject areas and for all ages.

Great resources for supporting language development through subject areas

http://www.collaborativelearning.org/

Barefoot Bytes offers quick collaborative activities that foster problem solving skills

https://www.barefootcomputing.org/barefootbytes

Activities to support multilingualism at school. A teacher’s guide on how to motivate children to use languages.

http://www.multilingual-families.eu/repository/for-teachers/teachers-guide

Immersive Reader

Immersive Reader is a free Microsoft tool, built into Word, OneNote, Outlook, Office Lens, Microsoft Teams, Forms, Flipgrid, Minecraft Education Edition and the Edge browser. It can help improve reading comprehension by increasing fluency for English language learners or readers of other languages. It can provide translation of words, or the entire text into over 60 languages (over 40 of them can be read aloud). This tool is a fantastic resource for allowing pupils to learn independently and also to be included in class lessons. Try it out yourself: http://aka.ms/InclusiveReadingDemo

Collecting and Recording information

EAL Strategy Booklet for Primary Schools – link

This Booklet provides advice on strategies to use for primary pupils across, listening, talking, reading and writing at the four levels of language acquisition. The list is not exhaustive nor is it to suggest that all of the strategies should be used. You own setting and pupils will determined which ones are appropriate and can be implemented.

EAL Strategy Booklet for Secondary Schools – link

This Booklet provides advice on strategies to use for secondary pupils across, listening, talking, reading and writing at the four levels of language acquisition. The list is not exhaustive nor is it to suggest that all of the strategies should be used. You own setting and pupils will determined which ones are appropriate and can be implemented.

Advice for Supporting New to English Learners – link

This Booklet gives advice on how to prepare for an Early Stage learner in your class and information about wider school good practice.

Advice for Supporting Advanced Learners of EAL– link

Advanced (or later stage) learners of English as an Additional Language are pupils who have had usually 2 – 3 or more years of exposure to English, and are at stage 3 or 4 of the ‘Stages of English Language Acquisition’ (ScotXEd). Advanced learners include bilingual pupils born in this country who may appear to be fluent in conversational contexts but may require continued support in order to fully access the curriculum and develop cognitive and academic English language proficiency. This booklet contains advice and strategies to ensure EAL learners are able to reach their full potential.

EAL Language Level Descriptor – link

EAL Development – Planning and Tracking Sheet for Primary Schools

This forms allows you track progress across the language levels for Listening & Talking, Reading and Writing. There is a list of the skills involved in each language level across the curricular areas mentioned. It is advisable to complete this activity twice a year as it will highlight the pupils development needs for future planning.

EAL Development -Planning and Tracking Sheet for Secondary Schools

This form allows you track progress across the language levels for Listening & Talking, Reading and Writing. There is a list of the skills involved in each language level across the curricular areas mentioned. It is advisable to complete this activity twice a year as it will highlight the pupil’s development needs for future planning.

Identifying Support Needs EAL – ASN

If you have concerns about a pupil’s language acquisition, then completing this form will support your assessment of the reasons for their difficulties. It will help to identify if there are other barriers to learning involved.

Working with Interpreters – Best Practise Guidelines

This document gives Best Practise Tips when working with interpreters and guidance on when to book an interpreter.

Resources

Picture Fan (pupils) – link

Picture fan (staff) – link

Routine cards – link

Dual-language books / First language books from LRS

To access Library Support for Schools library catalogue, staff can use the OLIVER system in schools or contact them directly:

Tel.: 01324 501980

LRS@falkirk.gov.uk

Non-fiction Reading Schemes (Oxford Read & Discover, National Geographic Kids) available for loan from the EAL Service

Wide range of language acquisition resources are available for loan from the EAL Service.

Valuing Home Language

The Language of the Month

Interactive video clips showing children teaching their home language. More than 65 languages are introduced.

https://www.newburyparkschool.net/lotm/index.html

Dual-language books / First language books from Learning Resource Service (LRS)

To access Library Support for Schools library catalogue, staff can use the OLIVER system in schools or contact them directly:

Tel.: 01324 501980

LRS@falkirk.gov.uk

https://global-asp.github.io/storybooks-uk/

Unite Books are short, colourful, and easy to understand with picture/text format and narration in English and 40 other languages. New books and languages are added every month.

https://www.uniteforliteracy.com/

Children’s rhymes and songs, counting songs in different languages

www.youtube.com

Dual language posters (English phrase or keyword with translation in 18 plus languages

Days of the week, name of months, colours, numbers 1 to 10 available in Polish, Spanish, French and German

http://www.schoolslinks.co.uk/resources_dl.htm

Activities to support multilingualism at school. A teacher’s guide on how to motivate children to use languages.

http://www.multilingual-families.eu/repository/for-teachers/teachers-guide

The International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL)

http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

Online training

Supporting Bilingualism and EAL

This online learning opportunity has been developed in partnership with Education Scotland, Glasgow City Council and SCILT (Scotland’s National Centre for Languages)

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/supportingbilingualism/

Websites to Support English Language Acquisition

LearnEnglish Kids is a British Council website with lots of free online games, songs, stories and activities for children.

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/

LearnEnglish Teens is a British Council website to learn English while having fun. LearnEnglish Teens can help improve your English with reading, writing and listening practice, tips for exams, grammar and vocabulary exercises, games and videos. You can also interact with other teenagers from all around the world.

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/

British Council website with videos, listening activities, texts and grammar exercises for ESOL learners at every level

http://www.esol.britishcouncil.org

Learn English online using our high-quality resources to quickly improve your English. This website is created for adult learners of English

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/

Translated resources are available, e.g. in Arabic, Polish, Romanian, Mandarin (Chinese), Portuguese and Urdu. However for many resources a subscription is needed.

http://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/english-as-an-additional-language-eal

Parents/Carers

Përshëndetje dhe mirëseardhje – أهلا ومرحبا – Здравей и добре дошъл – 你好，欢迎光临 – Hello and welcome – Kumusta at maligayang pagdating – નમસ્કાર અને સ્વાગત છે
Sveiks un laipni – Ndewo nu – ഹലോ സ്വാഗതം – Bonjour et bienvenue – Molweni namkelekile – Hallo und herzlich willkommen – Γειά σας και καλώς ήρθατε – Helló és üdvözlet – नमस्ते र स्वागत छ – Xin chào và chào mừng – Ciao e benvenuto – こんにちは、ようこそ Labas ir sveiki atvykę – سلام او ښه راغلاست – Cześć i witaj – Olá e bem-vindo – สวัสดีและยินดีต้อนรับ – Hej og velkommen – Bună ziua și bun venit – Привет и добро пожаловать – Hola y bienvenido – Mhoro uye titambire -Merhaba ve hoşgeldin – Hei og velkommen – ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ ಮತ್ತು ಸ್ವಾಗತ – Ahoj a Vitaj – ہیلو اور استقبال – – Hallo en welkom – ਹੈਲੋ ਅਤੇ ਸਵਾਗਤ ਹੈ – živjo in dobrodošli – హలో మరియు స్వాగతం – Hello at maligayang pagdating – Hej och välkommen – Moni ndikulandirani – Hei ja tervetuloa – வணக்கம் மற்றும் வரவேற்பு – Здраво и добредојде – Ahoj a vítejte – Hello agus fàilte – Tere ja Tere tulemast – Sveiki un laipni gaidīti – 안녕하세요 환영합니다 – Halo na karibu – Helo a chroeso –

Welcome to Scotland – Parents’/Carers’ Guide

This booklet is to provide parents/carers with some information about the education system in Scotland.

https://www.eis.org.uk/Parents-Book/Translated

Welcome Pack for pupils

The booklets aim to give newly arrived young people and their families some information about school education in Scotland, as well as some background about Scotland itself by way of introduction to the country.

https://www.eis.org.uk/Policy-And-Publications/WelcomeToScotland

Getting Involved in your child’s school life

Schools in the Scotland encourage parents and carers to become involved in school life. There are many opportunities to get involved even if you have work commitments or you are not confident in English.

https://ealresources.bell-foundation.org.uk/information/helping-your-child-learn

Contact with the school

Schools ask you for contact details. They want to keep in contact with you. You can tell them the best way of communication for you (by letter, email, text, phone, face to face or social media)

If you have questions

If you have questions contact the school, they are happy to help.

Opportunities to get involved with school life

- - - - Read school communications
        
        Join celebrations, concerts, and assemblies
        
        Attend parents’ meetings or consultations
        
        Volunteer to help on school trips, in the library, at events or at after-school clubs/activities
        
        Attend Parent Teacher Association (PTA) meetings
        
        Help to organise social and fundraising events
        
        Offer to help – for example, offer to tell stories or share information about your culture
        
        If you cannot attend meetings because of work commitments, ask the school to arrange another day or time
        
        If you are worried about communicating in English, contact the school office. They will find a good way of communicating with you
        
        skills and knowledge about language that your child learns in one language can be transferred to another language.
        
        If your child is unhappy or being bullied, you need to tell the school so staff can help. Contact the school office or class teacher and ask for an official interpreter if required.
        
        Connect (formerly Scottish Parent Teacher Council, set up in 1848) fosters parental engagement in education in Scotland.https://www.connect.scot/ “At Connect, we’re committed to making family engagement in children’s learning and school lives as good as it can be. We work with parents and educators, providing information, advice and training. You’ll find our popular leaflets, useful links and resources for parents and parent groups. ”On the website, you can sign up for the Connect eNewsletters or the Connect Parents’ Voice survey group. You can follow Connect’s latest new on twitter or Facebook.
- - Immersive Reader is a free Microsoft tool, built into Word, OneNote, Outlook, Office Lens, Microsoft Teams, Forms, Flipgrid, Minecraft Education Edition and the Edge browser. This tool can be used to translate digital letters sent home from school or to read websites in your home language. It can help improve reading comprehension by increasing fluency for English language learners or readers of other languages. It can provide translation of words, or the entire text into over 60 languages (over 40 of them can be read aloud). This tool is a fantastic resource for allowing pupils to learn independently and also to be included in class lessons.
    
    Importance of Your Home Language
    
    Children learn English more quickly and effectively when they continue to maintain and develop their Home Language.
    
    Speaking your language at home will not interfere with your children’s learning of English.
    
    Learning English should mean adding a language to your skills NOT losing a language!
    
    EAL stands for English as an Additional Language
    
    Therefore, keep talking, reading, listening, writing, singing, rhyming, playing, discussing, laughing … in your Home Language.
Hold On to your Home Language!
This booklet is available in 26+ different langauges

- https://www.ryerson.ca/mylanguage/brochures/

Multilingual Families

- Multilingual Families is an international project that helps parents bring up their children multilingually.http://www.multilingual-families.eu/home

- Introduction to parents: Why raise my children multilingually? Available in 24 languages: Arabic, BKS, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, English, Euskera, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese http://www.multilingual-families.eu/repository/for-parents/introductory-brochure

- In this material you will find 30 fun activities to play and work with your children at home and support the use of family languages. Have a look and try them out. Available in 23 languages:BKS, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, English, Euskera, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese.http://www.multilingual-families.eu/repository/for-parents/parent-s-guide
  
  Access to Libraries / Reading at Home / Language Development
  
  Public Library
  
  Public libraries are more than a house for books (fiction and non-fiction books, graphic novels, audiobooks and children’s books)
  
  You get in your public library expert advice, free internet access and wi-fi.
  
  There’s also 24/7 access to online resources, including ebooks.
  
  https://www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org/venues/falkirk-library/
  
  Libraries are free but you need to join and become a member.
  
  https://www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org/learning/libraries/join-your-local-library/
  
  If you can’t find what you are looking for, ask a member of staff. Often they can help.
- Storybook UK is a free open educational resource that promotes literacy and language learning in homes, schools, and communities. Part of the Global Storybooks project, it makes 40 stories from the African Storybook available with text and audio in English and the most widely spoken languages of the UK. Share and enjoy!https://global-asp.github.io/storybooks-uk/Unite Books are short, colourful, and easy to understand with picture/text format and narration in English and over 40 other languages. New books and languages are added every month.https://www.uniteforliteracy.com/The International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL)A free online library of digitized children’s books in many languages from various countries. Designed specifically for use by children ages 3 to13. It provides free access to high-quality books from around the world.http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
  WorldStories is a growing collection of stories from around the world. The collection includes retold traditional tales and new short stories in different languages. New stories, translations, pictures and sound recordings are added every week.
  
  https://worldstories.org.uk/
  
  Every week a popular children’s author or illustrator will provide you with free books, exclusive videos and their top three recommended reads on the Virtual School Library. Having access to a school library is really important for children. School libraries nurture a love of reading that can enrich children’s literacy skills, academic achievements and mental wellbeing. Our Virtual School Library will complement existing school libraries and will ensure that children have access to the magical world of stories all year round, whether they are learning at school or at home. https://wordsforlife.org.uk/virtual-school-library/
  
  The Words for Life platform aims to help families support their children’s literacy at home. The websites are packed with free books, fun activities and exclusive author content. You can explore and discuss the topics in the language of your choice. Learning and language development is transferable among different languages.
  
  https://wordsforlife.org.uk/
  
  Strategies/Resources to use at home with your child
  
  Pre-school children
  
  Playing at Home are activity sheets offering play ideas for parents, carers and children. The activities encourage everyone to have fun using things found easily around the home.
  
  Polish versions are available.
  
  http://www.healthscotland.com/documents/20735.aspx
  
  Hounslow Reading Strategies
  
  Curriculum Support
  
  Learning to read
  
  ABC – Letter names & sounds
  
  Phonics Oxford Owl – Help you child learn
  
  There are 26 letters of the alphabet but they make 44 sounds. Use our audio guide to hear all 44 phonic sounds, on their own and in example words.
  
  https://cdn.oxfordowl.co.uk/2016/05/05/20/22/32/561/20097_content/index.html?id=ae
  
  Blending – How to blend sounds to read words
  
  Video:
  
  https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/learn-to-read-phonics/
  
  Use BBC Bitesize to help with your homework, revision and learning. Find free videos, step-by-step guides, activities and quizzes by level and subject.
  
  You find support materials for Primary, Secondary and Post 16
  
  You also find Early Years resources for learning at home and advice for parents supporting children’s wellbeing.
  
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
  
  English Language Learning – Websites
  
  LearnEnglish Kids is a British Council website with lots of free online games, songs, stories and activities for children.
  
  http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/
  
  LearnEnglish Teens is a British Council website to learn English while having fun. LearnEnglish Teens can help improve your English with reading, writing and listening practice, tips for exams, grammaroand vocabulary exercises, games and videos. You can also interact with other teenagers from all around the world.
  
  https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/
  
  British Council website with videos, listening activities, texts and grammar exercises for ESOL learners at every level
  
  http://www.esol.britishcouncil.org
  
  Duolingo – an interactive language learning website
  
  www.duolingo.com
  
  Learn English online using our high-quality resources to quickly improve your English. This website is created for adult learners of English
  
  https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/
  
  Spending time using your Home Language with your children will reinforce their confidence that they can communicate successfully at a high level, and encourage them to aspire to do the same in English.

EAL Team

Early Learning and Childcare

CLPL

Collecting and Recording Information

Resources

Valuing Home Language

Further reading

Online training

Further Useful Websites

SCHOOLS

CLPL

Support Strategies

Collecting and Recording information

Resources

Valuing Home Language

Further Reading

Online training

Websites to Support English Language Acquisition

Parents/Carers

Importance of Your Home Language

Access to Libraries / Reading at Home / Language Development

Curriculum Support

Blending – How to blend sounds to read words

English Language Learning – Websites