Excellence and Enjoyment: Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years
- Publication date:
- Jan 2006
- DCSF ref:
- 0013-2006PCK-EN
- Audience:
- Coordinator, Deputy headteacher, Headteacher, Inclusion staff, Lead intervention teacher, Subject leader, Teacher, Teaching assistant
- Function:
- Ethnic minority achievement, Good practice, Guidance, Progression, Subject specific guidance
- Format:
- Pack
This publication is available in a ZIP file (8.5 MB).(The contents of this zip file can be downloaded from the attachments and resources block.)
Download publicationThese materials support learning and teaching for bilingual children who are conversationally fluent in English. The resource provides a range of strategies for developing speaking and listening as a tool for learning English, as well as the curriculum. It also suggests approaches for using children’s first language to provide access to the curriculum, and strategies for developing reading comprehension as well as writing.
This publication provides exemplification of the strategies. Guidance is also given on developing an inclusive curriculum to support learning and teaching. This resource is intended to increase the expertise and confidence of mainstream practitioners in teaching children and supporting schools in raising standards for their bilingual learners.
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Attachments and resources
- Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years: Introductory guide
- Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years: Information for school governors
- Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years: Summary of resources
- Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years: PDM 1 – Establishing curriculum targets
- Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years: PDM 2 – EAL principles, pedagogy and practice
- Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years: PDM 3 – Integrated planning
- Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years: PDM 4 – Supportive contexts
- Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years: PDM 5 – Speaking and listening
- Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years: PDM 6 – Day-to-day assessment
- Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years: PDM 7 – Culture and identity
- Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years: PDM 8 – Developing learning partnerships
- Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years: Unit 1 – Planning and assessment
- Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years: Unit 2 – Making it work in the classroom
- Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years: Unit 3 – Creating an inclusive learning culture
- Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years: Unit 4 – Speaking and listening
- ICT for EAL
- First language for learning
See also
- Excellence and Enjoyment: Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years – Teaching units to support guided sessions for writing in English as an additional language
- Progression in discussion texts
- Progression in instructional/procedural texts
- Progression in non-chronological report
- Progression in persuasion texts
- Raising the achievement of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils
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