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In-class assessment of new arrivals with EAL

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In-class assessment of new arrivals with EAL

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In class assessment of newly arrived pupils with EAL v3

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The benefits of integrating EAL pupils into mainstream lessons

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The benefits of integrating EAL pupils into mainstream lessons

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Developing induction programmes for newly arrived pupils using EAL (webinar)

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Developing induction programmes for newly arrived pupils using EAL (webinar)

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Developing induction programmes for newly arrived pupils using EAL (Webinar)

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Developing induction programmes for new arrived pupils using EAL (webinar) 2

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Developing induction programmes for new arrived pupils using EAL (webinar) 2

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Newly arrived pupils who are new to English 2 (Webinar)

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Early Years - Tiny Happy People - Bilingual babies and speaking multiple languages at home

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Early Years - Tiny Happy People - Bilingual babies and speaking multiple languages at home

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Bilingual babies and speaking multiple languages at home - BBC Tiny Happy People

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Will hearing me speak more than one language confuse my child? Is the speech of bilingual children delayed? What language should I use at home? Tips for parents on introducing children to more than one language.

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The World of Languages and Languages of the World

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WoLLoW is an exciting new curriculum aimed at putting joy and fun at the heart of languages teaching for children in KS2 and KS3.

WoLLoW aims to inspire, encourage and excite pupils in junior schools and the first years of secondary school to:

be curious about language and languages, their history and their diversity

understand the links and see the patterns between languages

think about how a language works

develop skills in learning, reading, writing and hearing both in English and other languages

see how languages relate to other topics of study, for example history, geography and science.

What is WoLLoW?

WoLLoW is a curriculum package for primary and secondary schools, which teaches children the history, culture and development of all languages and how they have shaped our lives. WoLLoW uses ideas and activities from a range of different subjects and helps pupils to understand patterns of grammar, uses of script and how learning through language can help shape their understanding of the world.

The primary and secondary courses run for a year and are aimed at one lesson per week. Resources are free to download, are flexible and can be adapted to suit the skills of your teachers and the needs of your learners.

The teaching of ancient and modern languages in this country - whether European or Asian - is, at best, problematic and, at worst, declining towards extinction.

There is no question that the English language is remarkable - the product of conquest, migration and empire, combining words - and grammar - from Celtic, Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman French, Latin (again), ancient Greek and the languages of the British Empire. However, the result is that the teaching of English can become mired in technical, and wearying, language.

WoLLoW challenges this. The curriculum draws on the rich diversity of our multi-cultural and multi-lingual society here in Britain to help inspire a love of language and address the following key issues:

The decline in the number of pupils learning languages nationally.

The fragmented and disjointed way in which languages are taught in junior and senior schools, both in the independent and state sector.

The lack of co-ordination between departments in schools which are teaching languages, English, Modern Foreign Languages and Classics.

The failure of our schools to see and use the remarkable linguistic diversity of our pupils, many of whom are bilingual, if not trilingual: EAL is seen as a problem whereas it could be a remarkable opportunity.

How is WoLLoW Taught?

WoLLoW has been developed through the partnership and collaboration of language teachers and experts in their field from a range of state and independent junior and secondary schools, to create a dedicated curriculum for pupils in KS2 and KS3, with the following aims:

to encourage a curiosity about language and languages, where they came from, how they developed and are developing, and how they are related.

to help pupils to understand how languages work in terms of grammar and thereby to provide a foundation for the study of specific languages at secondary level.

to develop the capacity to learn languages, including English, by encouraging thought about etymology, the similarities between languages etc.

to link the teaching of languages with other aspects of the curriculum.

to enable pupils who have a rich linguistic history to bring that history into the classroom.

WoLLoW offers a comprehensive range of resources, lesson content and schemes of work, both for pupils and teachers, which explore:

the history of the English language and the history and etymology of English words.

the relation of English to other languages, in particular Germanic languages, Romance languages and Indo-European languages.

the ways in which different languages work in terms of grammar, syntax, idiom.

the creation and decipherment of codes and artificial languages.

I have crossed an ocean
I have lost my tongue
from the root of the old one
a new one has sprung
Poem by Grace Nichols, a Guyanese immigrant

Who are we?

Abigail Dean
Modern Foreign Languages specialist, Norwich School & Co-Founder of WoLLoW
Abigail Dean is a teacher of French and German at Norwich School. She studied Politics and German at the University of East Anglia. She is an active contributor to the course content and resources on this site.

"Lessons are fun, accessible and enjoyable for all pupils regardless of their language, linguistic or literary ability. They are engaging and spark curiosity and a conversation. Teaching WoLLoW is the best part of my week."

John Claughton

Retired headmaster, King Edward's School Birmingham & Co-Founder of WoLLoW

John Claughton was Chief Master at King Edward's School for 10 years. He was a pupil at King Edward's himself, and went on to complete a Master of Arts at Merton College, Oxford. He received a Double First in Classics and has written two books for CUP, Herodotus and the Persian Wars, in addition to a translation of Aristophanes' Clouds. He retired in 2016.

"We want WoLLoW to encourage children to really think about languages; to be curious about language, to understand the links between languages and to see the patterns they create. We also want them to think about how a language works."

Steffan Griffiths

Headmaster, Norwich School & Co-Founder of WoLLoW

Steffan Griffiths joined Norwich School in September 2011. After reading Classics at University College, Oxford, he taught at Tonbridge School (1995-1999) and Eton College (1999-2006). In 2006, he was appointed to the role of Usher (principal deputy head) at Magdalen College School, Oxford. Steffan also holds a first-class honours English Literature degree from the Open University.

"WoLLoW is an attempt to try and put joy and fun at the heart of our languages teaching for children in Key Stage 2 and 3. We want pupils to love words, to love how their own language works and to be filled with the wonder of how languages intermingle, how they have built on each other and how they enhance our lives."

John Wilson
Head of Modern Languages and Director of Partnerships, Cheadle Hulme School
A Spanish specialist, he is also Partnerships Lead for The Independent Schools' Modern Languages Association. Outside of teaching, John is co-founder of a charity, Cricket Beyond Boundaries, and loves dividing his time between this, his family and rugby (both codes).

Thank you to James Livesey (a former Norwich School pupil) for website creation and maintenance.

Special thanks

With over 179 resources across 63 lesson plans for Key Stages 2 to 4, our collection of resources is constantly growing. The WoLLoW venture would not be possible without the kind support of Norwich School, King Edward VI Foundation Birmingham, Cheadle Hulme School and the ISMLA.

Get to know us

We are a group of educators who provide a solid understanding of how languages work, teach about the history of language, and foster an appreciation of both modern and classical languages.

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WoLLoW is an exciting new curriculum aimed at putting joy and fun at the heart of languages teaching for children in KS2 and KS3. WoLLoW - World of Languages and Languages of the World https://www.youtube.com/embed/0hfSzLWMfBI The WoLLoW resources and lesson content have been created to encourage children to be curious about languages, to understand the...

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Transition from an EAL approach to a multilingual approach

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Transition from an EAL approach to a multilingual approach

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Association of School and College Leaders

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ASCL SEND Bites | June 2024 by Association of School and College Leaders

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In this edition, ASCL SEND and Inclusion Specialist Margaret Mulholland speaks with Soofia Amin, Assistant Headteacher, Kensington Primary School and John Claughton, Retired Headmaster, King Edward’s School Birmingham and Co-founder of WoLLoW about languages and highlighting the fundamental opportunities that school leaders face around inclusion, as well as celebrating young people and their potential.

www.ascl.org.uk/podcasts/send

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Select a language to view the stories available in that language.

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An excellent guide to promote language-embedded classroom

Different Language Functions and sentence frames that can be used at different levels/ages - useful to support the literacy focus in our POI

Academic word list (p.30)

Vocabulary list (from p.37) by age and subject

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A guide for setting language objectives

finding language focus in units/lessons

planning templates

language functions

Vocabulary development

The AWL (Academic word list)

Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary lists by grade level and by subject

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Vocabulary - Bilingual glossaries and cognates

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Vocabulary - Bilingual glossaries and cognates

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These glossaries are to provide permitted testing accommodations of ELL/MLL students. They should also be used for instruction during the school year. These glossaries may be downloaded, printed and disseminated to educators, parents and ELLs/MLLs.

Bilingual glossaries are an essential and expected test accommodation for ELLs/MLLs in the State of New York. The languages of these glossaries cover the top 10 languages at the state level, with new languages added based on changing language populations in the NY State student demographic data.

Schools should provide testing accommodations to ELLs/MLLs, as needed, on all NYS ELA and content-area assessments (i.e., Mathematics, Science and Social Studies). Districts/schools must make all necessary arrangements to make these accommodations available for ELLs/MLLs who need them. Please click here for the New York State Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages Webpage on "Assessment and Testing Accommodations".

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These glossaries are to provide permitted testing accommodations of ELL/MLL students. They should also be used for instruction during the school year.

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The Great Ideas pages are a collection of different strategies that any teacher could use in their classrooms to support learners who use EAL.

Many of the teaching resources on this website refer to various tried and tested approaches and strategies which are recommended for EAL learners.

In this section of the website the rationale behind these methodologies and why they are called 'Great Ideas' are explained.

The majority of these approaches can be used with everyone in the class, but they are particularly important for EAL learners because they provide a rich context, additional support, opportunities for collaborative learning and exploratory talk, and all the important features of good practice in meeting the educational needs of EAL learners.

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EAL Strategies and Great Ideas - The Bell Foundation

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EAL Strategies and Great Ideas The Great Ideas pages are a collection of different strategies that any teacher could use in their classrooms to support learners who use EAL. Many of the teaching resources on this website refer to various tried and tested approaches and strategies which are recommended for EAL learners.

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Bell Foundation - wide selection of free training videos

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Bell Foundation - wide selection of free training videos

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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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Google's free service instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages.

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We have worked with partners and volunteers across Europe to produce a set of free materials to support refugees during these difficult times.

These resources are included in a free pack which will help bridge the language barrier between Ukrainian refugees and their hosts. The pack is available in both Ukrainian and Russian, alongside the language of the host nation.

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Refugee Communication Support Pack | Widgit

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Communication boards and symbol resources designed to help bridge the language barrier between Ukrainian refugees and host nations.

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Collaborative learning - Talk for learning activities

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Collaborative learning - Talk for learning activities

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Collaborative Learning is practitioner led, has evolved over the last thirty five years and is still evolving. We support a teacher network that shares resources that scaffold talk. Our activities can be used as they are, or tweaked a little to suit different classrooms or they can be an inspiration/a template for you to develop your own resources that we hope you will in turn share with us.

First to develop resources that empower learners by encouraging them to work with every other learner, including new arrivals to English, in the class in a playful, but purposeful, way. We want to nurture emotional and social development and make learners confident in sharing what they know....

Second to make complex ideas accessible by providing ways in which they can be presented in concrete, visual and tactile ways. Learners learning English while they are learning everything else thrive on challenging activities that are quickly comprehensible. We don't want to oversimplify concepts nor patronise learners, but we break ideas down by presenting them in case studies with lots of detail and visual examples. By providing scaffolding...

Third to encourage exploratory talk in the classroom. There is increasing evidence that talk and thinking work together to develop new meanings. There is also now neurological evidence that talk fuels brain development. Unfortunately there is also evidence that talk has been neglected in our classrooms and this has widened the gap in attainment. Talk is good for all learners and vital for children learning a new language while they are learning. Our activities scaffold talk and help teachers plan for the language to support thinking. They also allow learners to move from social language to curriculum/academic talk and from there to confident writing......

Our project grew out of the "teachers as researchers" initiative in the 1970s and was initially funded by the Inner London Education Authority. Apart from EU support to run training in the nineties we have survived, leanly and meanly, with no external funding. We have always believed that teachers are more creative and develop more engaging and exciting resources when they plan and work collaboratively inside and outside the classroom. These ideas of reflective practice and collaborative planning as a way of transforming education has been most persuasively explored recently in Andy Hargreaves' and Michael Fullan's book "Professional Capital"

And we want these three aims to be realised simultaneously.

Our new partnership with has expanded the possibilities for collaborative work. They have taken some of our tried and tested activities. They have produced brilliant new attractive artwork. Their printed versions arrive laminated and the cards are perforated so they can easily be prepared for the classroom. And of course the Mantra versions are sound enabled and you can add more sound stickers if necessary. They are not prerecorded, but ready for a variety of possible uses. Here are some suggestions on how they might be used.

Teachers can add the text - either the text written down or an extended version or a translation. They can make pictures talk. They can provide extra comments or instructions. Children can work together to add sound to an activity, comment on a activity or use it as a springboard to prepare oral presentation. And all the sound files can be shared with Sharelink. In the same way as we share activities and adapt them, Sharelink allows you to upload your sound files into the cloud so that others can download them for use in their classrooms. And you have access to all the sound ideas that colleagues have added to the resources. And the other way round you can download a language that is less common in your school or use other sound files to share ideas about an activity.

Description and history of project and a list of commonly asked questions and answers (in html) or questions and answers in leaflet form in pdf about collaborative learning. Little booklet on collaborative learning by Steve Cooke.

Would you like to support our work? We only rely on colleagues to spread the word since the project has no funding for publicity! Please download our little publicity leaflet or our even smaller publicity leaflet and hand it out to colleagues and at courses and workshops. Also if you are interested in hosting and participating in a workshop please take a look at how this could benefit your school - information here!

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First to develop resources that empower learners by encouraging them to work with every other learner, including new arrivals to English, in the class in a playful, but purposeful, way. We want to nurture emotional and social development and make learners confident in sharing what they know....

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Speech and Language UK: Changing young lives

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Resource library for educators - Speech and Language UK: Changing young lives

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Resource library for educators - Speech and Language UK: Changing young lives

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As a parent, there are many ways that you can help your child succeed every single day! These bilingual parent resources offer tips on helping your child learn to read, succeed in school, and learn a new language. They also provide information about the U.S. school system and share ideas on how to build a relationship with your child's teacher and school.

In addition, you can find fun reading tips and games, bilingual booklists, ideas for using the public library, and videos of children's authors, illustrators, and musicians. Resources are organized by topic.

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As a parent, there are many ways that you can help your child succeed every single day! These bilingual parent resources offer tips on helping your child learn to read, succeed in school, and learn a new language. They also provide information about the U.S.

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Kletsheads - The podcast all about bilingual children

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The podcast about bilingual children for parents, teachers and speech language therapists

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Mother Tongues - Youtube channel about multilingualism

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Mother Tongues - Youtube channel about multilingualism

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This is the Mother Tongues YouTube channel. Here you will find videos on topics related to bilingualism and multilingualism.

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Google Forms - create and analyze surveys, for free.

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Get access to files anywhere through secure cloud storage and file backup for your photos, videos, files and more with Google Drive.

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Bell foundation EAL assessment framework 

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Bell foundation EAL assessment framework 