New Arrivals Toolkit - Secondary
New Arrivals with English as an Additional Language: A Toolkit for Secondary Schools
The documents below form a toolkit that provides guidance and support for secondary school staff working with new arrivals with English as an additional language.
The aim of the toolkit is to support schools to develop inclusive provision for pupils who are newly arrived from abroad which will enable them to settle quickly and make good progress. The achievement of pupils depends on staff understanding of their social, emotional, cultural and language needs, and knowledge of good EAL teaching and learning practice. The materials in the toolkit provide guidance on admission, induction, assessment and teaching of new arrivals, many of whom will be at the early stages of learning English.
The materials are divided into six sections:
Introduction and general advice
- The Wokingham context
- Key messages
- Who is a pupil with English as an additional language
- Factors to consider in second language acquisition
- Provision for new arrivals
- Provision for new arrivals - additional information
- Cultural differences
- Involving parents
- Stages of English learning
Teaching guidance - including small group/ one to one session
General
- How to support language acquisition
- Teaching strategies for beginner learners of EAL
- Teaching strategies for more advanced EAL learners
- Activities to support vocabulary development
- Examples of graphic organisers
- Barrier games
- Classroom observation checklist
- Instruction words glossary
- Key instruction words for translation
- Example resources for English lessons
- Example of differentiation - Year 10 English
- Examples of differentiation - Science and English
Small group/ one to one sessions
Planning small group/ 1-1 sessions:
- Planning proforma for sessions with EAL learners at stages 1 and 2
- Sample session plan 1
- Sample session plan 2
- Sample session plan 3
- Basic vocabulary
- Basic sentence structures
- Irregular verbs
- Suggested induction programme
Teaching materials:
Racing to English: This excellent CD, including over 300 language activities, costs £45 + £5 P and P. More details here: www.racingtoenglish.com
Below is a Ppt presentation introducing the resource.
- Racing to English: An introduction - PPT
- Grid to support reading 1
- Grid to support reading 2
- Grid to support reading 3
- Visual prompt cards for question words
- English language learning text books
National Strategies Guided writing units for EAL learners
- New Arrival Excellence Programme Guidance EAL
- National Strategies Guidance for Foundation Stage Practitioners
- Guided Writing Units for EAL Learners
Clicker software and Write on Line software are very useful to support the writing of EAL learners: http://www.cricksoft.com/uk/products/tools/clicker/home.aspx http://www.cricksoft.com/uk/products/tools/writeonline/default.aspx
Assessment and information gathering
Please see the link at the bottom of this page for assessment guidance and assessment materials.
Additional assessment materials:
- Initial Pupil Profile
- Questions to ask at the initial meeting with parents
- Provision planning proforma for new arrivals
Resources
- EAL websites and publications
- Bay Language Books - stockist of dual language dictionaries for schools
- Learning English - websites, software
- Subject specific guidance booklets on supporting EAL pupils can be found on this page elsewhere on this site: Access and Engagement at KS3
Appendix
- Example admission form
- Languages listed by country
- Language identification chart
- Ethnicity codes
- LA support for new arrivals with EAL
- Local community organisations
- EAL register template
Information about languages
- Arabic
- Bengali and Sylheti
- Cantonese and Mandarin
- Japanese
- Kurdish Sorani
- Nepali
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Tamil
- Thai
- Turkish
- Urdu and Hindi
For further information on support for new arrivals with EAL, please see the English as an additional language home page
More teaching materials are available at this link