Synonym prompts for basic words. Simple feelings, emotions and actions.

Available in: Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Czech, English, Farsi, Hungarian and Italian

Thank you to Rochdale LA for making these resources freely available.

Synonym prompts for basic words. Simple feelings, emotions and actions.

Available in: Kurdish, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Urdu

Thank you to Rochdale LA for making these resources freely available.

A simple set of activities for Newly Arrived pupils.  Build up a profile of who your pupils are.

Then use the information to encourage the children to persuade someone to be their friend.

Use our story boards and cards to construct simple stories with pupils in the early stages of acquiring English.

Full instructions on how to use the resources in Part 1. Download Part 2 to access picture cards.

Close the Covid Catch-up Gap by offering clear and meaningful written and oral feedback to pupils learning EAL.

Romeo and Juliet

A Turkish translation of this great Shakespearean text

Simple, reassuring guidance and tips for parents supporting their children’s learning at home during lockdown.

Translated into 18 languages

Download Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), English and Gujarati

Teach your children at home

Simple, reassuring guidance and tips for parents supporting their children’s learning at home during lockdown.

Translated into 18 languages

Download Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Punjabi and Romanian

A great activity to get children talking and thinking.

Read historical information about two black women who lived during Roman times in Britain, then work collaboratively to answer key questions.

Use clear, visual resources to help children in the very early stages of learning English to acquire key vocabulary about our early ancestors. Talk about Stone, Bronze and Iron Age people using prompts and talk frames.

Have more phonics fun with this spider speller.

Sound out, say and write phase 2 phonics words to make learning for EAL speakers more contextualised.

Try our slider game. Make different words ending in ‘ck’.

Reinforce context and meaning with picture cards to make a ‘synthetic’ approach more authentic.

Ideas to support children with alphabetical order and basic phonological awareness, in and out of school.

Here are a few ideas that won’t cost you anything.

Take a look at how words with similar meanings can be graded to express subtle differences.

This simple language game helps students remember and play with key vocabulary linked to a specific topic.

Opposites are binary and often literal. Learning simple opposites is the start of a lexical journey towards ranking and grading words.

Going for a walk is free. There are so many ways you can help your children learn on a walk.

Here are a few maths ideas that won’t cost you anything.

Making up stories is fun and easy to do.

You can use all sorts of things to help your children create a story.

Two great ideas for parents to help their children learn at home.

No need to spend money. Be creative with things around the house.

Children love challenges and to be creative.

Here are a few ideas for you to help them explore different ideas and materials.

A fun activity for parents to do with their children from the safety of their garden or street.

Look at the flowers growing around you. Learn the names of some of the most common ones. Count how many you see, then write some sentences.

Help your child’s English with this simple activity. Talk about a picture together, label it, then practice writing sentences using a word table. Use your home language too.

NHS and WHO advice translated into languages commonly spoken by refugee families: Albanian, Arabic, English, Farsi, Kurmanji, Sorani, Tigrinya and Vietnamese. Downloadable as one document. Thank you to the Big Leaf Foundation.

Help pupils understand basic punctuation with this fun, visual and interactive pairs game

Practice a range of fine motor skills and descriptive language when you create and play with this Monster Misfit game.

A fun activity that encourages players to ask questions, use key vocabulary and descriptive language to find a matching picture.

Three activities to assess phonic discrimination, scanning and visual memory in pupils with very little English.

More dual-language advice for parents on how to support their children with multiplication tables. Thanks to Rochdale Borough Council for this free resource.

Available here in Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Tamil, Thai, Urdu and Vietnamese.

Use these translated resources to help bilingual parents support their children. Thank you to Rochdale Borough Council for sharing.

Languages available here are Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Kurdish Sorani, Persian, Polish Portuguese and Punjabi.

More languages available to help bilingual parents support their children. Thanks to Rochdale Borough Council’s generosity.

Languages include Romanian, Slovak, Spanish and Urdu.

Learn the names of common mini-beasts with this lovely dominoes game.

Try this. Information gap activities encourage pupils to express what they mean clearly so that someone else understands them.

Learn the names of everyday shapes and introduce simple description with this activity.

Download this game to learn key words, colours and numbers.

Use these illustrated cards to show pupils what is going to happen each day in your classroom.

Play this activity and learn the names of some basic school clothing.

Make this simple fan to help pupils share and name their feelings.

Download these colourful bilingual signs to display in your classroom or around school.

Try this collaborative reading comprehension task to improve children’s literacy skills

Make up sentences using these picture grids

Learn the names of insects with this fun activity

Use a picture or object to stimulate discussion