These look great Jack! Such a great idea to have a menu of independent activities for them to engage with too. It's really challenging supporting an EAL pupil whilst spinning all the other plates as a teacher!
I'm sure you do this, or a version of this already, but I've previously created word-mats with key terminology from the topic. I'm only talking 5-10 words or phrases. I'd have the picture or the word/phrase, then underneath that spelling in their home/first language and under that, the spelling in English.
Tacky back this to their desk for the whole topic and by the end they'd know at least those words/phrases!
These cards look like a fun and effective way for your student to learn at their own pace. I teach EAL mostly to adults and I am a foreign language learner myself so I know how isolating it can feel to not be able to understand native speakers. I guess your school doesn't have a dedicated EAL teacher or lessons?
We only have phonics for this really, and that's offered to all children who require phonics instruction so there's no dedicated EAL provision (beyond that which us teachers miraculously produce every day!).
These look great Jack! Such a great idea to have a menu of independent activities for them to engage with too. It's really challenging supporting an EAL pupil whilst spinning all the other plates as a teacher!
I'm sure you do this, or a version of this already, but I've previously created word-mats with key terminology from the topic. I'm only talking 5-10 words or phrases. I'd have the picture or the word/phrase, then underneath that spelling in their home/first language and under that, the spelling in English.
Tacky back this to their desk for the whole topic and by the end they'd know at least those words/phrases!
These cards look like a fun and effective way for your student to learn at their own pace. I teach EAL mostly to adults and I am a foreign language learner myself so I know how isolating it can feel to not be able to understand native speakers. I guess your school doesn't have a dedicated EAL teacher or lessons?
We only have phonics for this really, and that's offered to all children who require phonics instruction so there's no dedicated EAL provision (beyond that which us teachers miraculously produce every day!).
Gosh, that’s another extra layer of work for you. Have you come across the practice of translanguaging at all?
I have a boy who has just joined me from another country, these sound, and look ace. Thanks Jack.