English as an Additional Language
The term “EAL” refers to learners for whom English is an Additional Language.
At St. Anne’s Catholic Primary School, we are committed to meeting the needs of all children learning English as an Additional Language. We value and welcome the cultural, linguistic, and educational experiences that EAL pupils bring to our school community. Our goal is to recognize the skills these pupils have in their own languages and understand that becoming fluent in a new language takes time.
We encourage pupils to use their first language to explore concepts and use various strategies to help them access the curriculum. Our aim is to support EAL pupils in becoming confident and fluent in speaking, understanding, reading, and writing in English so they can reach their full academic potential.
If you would like more information on how to support your child at home, please contact the school office and ask to speak with Mrs. Burnitt, our SENCO.
Resources
British Council
For younger learners
Website: http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org
Lots of free online games, songs, stories and activities for children to support learning of English Includes:
Website: https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/games
Games to play to practice English
For older learners
Website: https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar/beginner-grammar
Suitable for beginner learners of English. Practice and improve English grammar with fun videos. Also online exercises and worksheets.
Website: https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/games
Games to improve English vocabulary
Also:
Website: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/apps
Learn/improve English with apps – games, podcasts, videos and quizzes to help learn English at home
EAL Hwb
Website: https://www.ealhub.co.uk/home-learning-area
Many resources suitable for EAL learners at different stages. They also support general literacy needs. There are 3 Tiers: Tier 1 is for EAL learners at the beginning of their learning. Tier 2 focusses mainly on vocabulary development and Tier 3 looks at developing language to a further stage. There are free resources in each section, but others can only be accessed through a paying subscription.
Many things
Website: www.manythings.org
This web site is for people studying English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL). There are quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities.
English
Website: www.english-online.org.uk
English Language Courses for: young learners, beginners, elementary, intermediate, advanced. Includes games, video tutorials, grammar exercises etc
Suitable for use on smartphones or tablets.
English Banana
www.englishbanana.com
This site offers more than 4,000 pages of free printable resources for teaching and learning English and ESL. Suitable for all ages.
Games to learn English
Website: https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com
A website with games to learn English. It is not focussed on curriculum content but rather focussed on English language learning. It can help to provide primary learners with exposure to listening whilst also allowing them to play games to practice vocabulary and grammar.
Children’s Library
Website: http://en.childrenslibrary.org
Online books for children in many languages. The website aims to enable families to have access to the books of their culture and language regardless of where they live.
World Stories
Website: https://worldstories.org.uk
World Stories is a growing collection of stories from around the world. The collection includes retold traditional tales and new short stories in the languages most spoken by UK children – over 30 languages available.
Story Books Canada
Website: https://www.storybookscanada.ca
Storybooks Canada is a free open educational resource that promotes literacy and language learning in homes, schools, and communities. There are 40 African stories available with text and audio in 29 different languages, at varying levels of language competency. Click on the Global Story Portal
Audible
Website: https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
Free audio books, available in six languages (Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and Japanese).
Global Stories
https://globalstorybooks.net/ Global Storybooks is a free multilingual literacy resource for children and youth worldwide.
Shaun Tann’s books
This site uses picture books at different proficiency levels to give more agency to both primary and secondary learners to respond and engage at their current level and to give them opportunities to develop their higher-order thinking skills by thinking about interpretations of pictures and the story.
Website: http://shauntan.net/books.html
Oxford university Press: English Language Teaching
Website:https://elt.oup.com/teachersclub/subjects/gradedreading/?cc=gb&selLanguage=en
Google translate app – use a phone’s camera to translate text with the Translate app.
Website: https://support.google.com/translate/answer/6142483?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en
Immersive Reader in Word online has a translation tool.
Websites – Interactive
https://www.brainpop.com/– Sign in for free access due to Covid-19 BrainPOP Jr. and BrainPOP ELL also great!
www.eslflow.com – KS2
www.agendaweb.org – loads of options for young and old
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/
http://www.letshavefunwithenglish.com/
https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/
http://www.funenglishgames.com/ – lot of variety, good for lots of things
https://global.cbeebies.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/site/literacy.shtml – archived but has good resources
http://www.esltower.com/index.html -limited offer
http://eslkidsworld.com/ – older
http://kidseslgames.com/printables.html
http://www.starfall.com/
https://pbskids.org/ – Videos and games
Online Books
Polish texts taken from the Polish National Curriculum. Arranged by age phase https://lektury.gov.pl
https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/grades-1-2.html
http://www.starfall.com/
https://bilingualkidspot.com/2019/02/19/free-online-books-for-kids/ – a list of online books
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ – The International Children’s Digital Library
https://www.storylineonline.net/library/ – Stories read by authors
https://www.childrensbooksonline.org/library-translations.htm – Books in Multiple languages
http://www.storymuseum.org.uk/1001stories/
https://www.mamalisa.com/?t=el -Songs and rhymes from around the world
https://www.funbrain.com/books
https://www.storynory.com/ – Audio stories with script. KS2
https://pbskids.org/games/reading/ – reading games