EAL - Learning & Teaching
Educators can support and encourage children in their acquisition of English as an additional language through a wide range of strategies that foster high quality interactions, enable modelling and create strong context for the development of language.’
Interpreting & Translating Resources
VCAA Support for EAL Learners
Children and families should be encouraged and supported to continue speaking their first language at home and educators should make efforts to encourage the use of this home language in the school or early childhood service.
ABC
Education
Range of videos to support cross curriculum teaching and learning F-10. Search resources by Year level and subject. Can provide additional multimodal resources for building content knowledge for EAL learners.
ABC Education - Minilessons
ABC Education mini recorded lessons – search by year level and topic.
Behind the News
Current affairs program for school students presenting issues in a relevant and engaging format. A valuable resource for EAL learners.
AITSL EAL Illustrations of practice teaching videos
List of online videos for teachers of EAL students.
Analyze your text
Text pasted into this site calculates lexical density, high frequency words etc. to determine the text suitability for an EAL student and to remind teachers of the need to explicitly unpack and teach the language/literacy features and vocabulary of texts.
DET NSW
Developing EAL/D student writing practices in a digital age.
A focus on informative text types.
DET Victoria EAL
Curriculum advice and learning and teaching resources for teachers of EAL, New Arrival and Refugee students.
DET Victoria F-6 Literacy Teaching Toolkit EAL enhancement
The Literacy Teaching Toolkit F-6 contains advice and strategies that support teachers to differentiate for EAL/D learners. It includes advice for teachers of EAL/D and English first language students learning together, and for low literacy EAL/D students and students in the early, mid and late immersion stages of EAL development.
DET Victoria 7 -10 Literacy Teaching Toolkit EAL enhancement
The Literacy Teaching Toolkit 7-10 provides teachers with strategies to support the development of literacy practices within 7 learning areas of the Victorian Curriculum.
DET Victoria FUSE (EAL)
Learning and teaching resources and videos for Early Childhood, Primary, Secondary and Teachers (Includes EAL).
DET EAL SA
The explicit teaching strategies described within are primarily a guide for teachers of EAL/D students. The strategies were designed with the Language and Literacy Levels (Levels) professional learning modules in mind.
DET EAL WA
Units of work developed for EAL students F-10 using Teaching & Learning cycle approach to planning lessons around a concept or unit.
EAL Highland UK
Essex County Council UK booklets with useful phrases for new pupils in a variety of languages.
Essex County Council EAL UK
Advice re EAL strategies for secondary teachers of EAL students. Handbooks for a range of secondary subjects for teachers of EAL students.
ESOL NZ
A NZ site for teachers to respond to the needs of their English language learners.
LMERC (Languages & Multicultural Education Resource Centre)
A specialised library for teachers in the areas of: EAL, Languages and the Victorian curriculum cross-curriculum priority areas and Intercultural capability.
Mathematics Association of Victoria resources
The recommended picture books F-8 can be used as a springboard for teaching mathematical concepts aided by a narrative and illustrations to build content/conceptual knowledge for EAL learners.
SA Catholic Education
The EAL Learner website developed by the EAL team includes information on:
Who EAL learners are and how to help them to learn.
NB: SA has its own assessment scales for EAL students that is different to Victoria’s EAL Continuum stages.
TEAL (Tools to Enhance Assessment Literacy for Teachers of English as an Additional Language)
An online resource for teachers of primary and secondary level students who are learning English as an Additional Language (EAL) in Australia.
The Bell Foundation UK
The Bell Foundation (resources previously on EAL Nexus) provides guidance for schools and focuses on different aspects of provision for learners with English as an Additional Language, such as effective teaching of learners with EAL (including the Great Ideas pages), guidance by curriculum subject, parental engagement and bilingual support. It is aimed at teachers, members of senior leadership teams, EAL co-ordinators and teaching assistants.
Twinkl
‘A complete range of English and bilingual teaching resources and classroom materials for teachers, all aligned to the Australian Curriculum and written by experienced Australian teachers. Catering for every year group from EYLF to Year 6, you will find resources and activities covering all core subjects, including Maths, English, Science, and HASS.’
Small range of free resources. Reasonable membership rates for premium access to resources which includes bilingual resources.
Wokingham Borough Council UK resources
UK site with handouts on:
Specific language differences
Arabic and Polish resources
NB: some sections only relevant to UK context.
Aberdeen City EAL Service UK
Provides wide range of resources, many from other UK EAL websites, for primary and secondary teachers of EAL students (includes bilingual resources).
NB: some sections only relevant to UK context.
EMaths
Provides multilingual Yr 3-8 mathematics subject specific words for EAL students.
Essex County Council
Multilingual resource which details the importance of Home Language booklets for CALD parents of Early Years students in:
Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, French, Gujurati, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Mandarin, Polish, Portugese, Punjabi, Rumanian, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu.
NB: some sections only relevant to UK context.
Global Language
Range of bilingual text, picture books and dictionaries.
Kids’ Own Publishing
Publication of picture books written, translated and illustrated by children and parents from a CALD background.
Language Books
Range of bilingual text, picture books and dictionaries.
Language Lizard
Range of bilingual text, picture books and dictionaries.
Schoolslink UK
Range of dual language posters.
Story Weavers
15 000 plus levelled stories translated into 202 languages. Fantastic site for students literate in first language and/or CALD parents literate in first language to read stories children in their first language.
Unite For Literacy
Unite for Literacy is US based and provides free digital picture books narrated in many languages. Users can select one language plus English and listen to both the English and other language version as you ‘turn’ the page. Mainly junior primary level picture books.
RUMACCC (Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross-Cultural Communication) at University of Melbourne
In the Resources link, free downloadable stories for F-4 learners, translated in a range of languages.
Water Science School
Water cycle diagram and interactive webpage for students from beginner to advanced, translated into 35 languages.
World Stories
Free online translated stories for EAL students. Access to a wide range of stories grouped in categories in 32 languages with cross curricula tasks and comprehension questions.
DET Vic EAL
The Victorian Curriculum F-10 EAL 2020 Reporting Tool is designed to support teachers and schools that choose to trial all or part of the Victorian Curriculum F-10 EAL in 2020. Government schools are expected to use the Victorian Curriculum F-10 EAL from Term 1, 2021.
VCAA Vic Curriculum F-10 EAL
This website provides information and resources for all teachers of EAL students.
No English Don’t Panic
No English Don’t Panic Q &A
TESOL Teaching and Learning Cycle
Examples of a classroom-based approach to scaffold and explicitly teach language throughout a unit of work.