Creative Activities And Ideas For Pupils With English As An

Description: Creative Activities for Teaching Pupils with English as an Additional Language is a unique collectionof 150 enjoyable and inspiring games and activities to help support learners of English as an Additional Language (EAL) in the inclusive classroom. This bank of ideas will support you in helping newly arrived pupils settle into their class and school, and are easy to integrate into your planning to support your learners across the curriculum. Designed with busy teachers in mind, the Classroom Gems series draws together an extensive selection of practical, tried-and-tested, off-the-shelf ideas, games and activities, guaranteed to transform any lesson or classroom in an instant. Easily navigable, allowing you to choose the right activity quickly and easily, these invaluable resources are guaranteed to save you time and are a must-have tool to plan, prepare and deliver first-rate lessons.



Contents: Chapter 1: How to teach pupils with English as an Additional Language Who is identified as learning English as an Additional Language? Stages of language acquisition How do you teach EAL pupils? The importance of Differentiation (GOTOS) 10 Top Tips Chapter 2: First Days and Weeks: activities and ideas for when an EAL pupil first arrives in class Introduction Lost in Translation! Bingo! Buddy Simon helps to Survive the System! School Systems Singing Solutions! Find a name! Find someone who... What's my present? Mirror, mirror This is the word! Express yourself! Who's who? Chapter 3: Activities and ideas for social and cultural integration Introduction Playground games Parachute! 'Oranges and Lemons' 'Ring a Ring of Roses' 'Teddy Bear' 'Miss Susie had a baby!' 'The Farmer's in the Dell! 'What's the time, Mr Wolf?' Stuck in the mud! Duck, duck, goose! 'Who took the cookie?' Indoor play games and activities Snakes and ladders Matching jigsaw Language Snap! Happy Families Word search Crossword Story tapes Chapter 4:Activities and ideas for verbal communication Introduction Talk tokens Expert groups Remember, remember Snowball Jigsaw Yeah, but... Listen up! Any questions? The teacher's dog Rainbow groups Mime the job Story cloak Describing definitions Call My Bluff! Animate! Talk dolls Repetition Corner running Circle Time Record my story Mystery Sing to remember! Chapter 5:Activities and ideas for written communication Introduction The pen is mine! Words and Pictures Hunt the Fish Jigsaw a letter Writing frames Sequencing a story Sentence Starters The writing is on the wall Question bombing! Moving mobiles Sentence matching Mix and Match! Label the classroom Venn diagram What's my word? Letter ladders Word finder Discussing drama to help writing Adjective, noun, verb Kung Fu punctuation Chapter 6: Activities and ideas for visual aids and interactive teaching Introduction English - Buzz off! English - Word wheel English - Discuss and decide! Mathematics - Buzz Fizz! Fizz Buzz! Mathematics - XOXO Mathematics - Guess my hand! Science - Classification Science - Language Lab coat Science - Make a floating compass ICT - Crazy Talk! ICT - Interactive Teaching Programs History - Let's pretend! History - Archaeological artefacts Geography - Gardening Glory Geography - Where is it from? PE - Be a bean! PE - Peer perfect Art and DT - Making clothes Art and DT - Drawing blindfolded Art and DT - Squiggle stories Music - Walking with Sound Music - Sing out like a bell! Religious Education - Filmed Footage Religious Education - Question Time Religiuous Education - Loop game! Appendix - Musical Score and lyrics o Heads and Shoulders o Orangesand Lemons o Ring a Ring of Roses o Teddy Bear o Miss Susie o Farmer in the dell o Sing to Remember o Telephone song o This is the way we... o Writing Frames



Author Biography: Maggie Websteris Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at Edge Hill University and is a Course Leader for Children's Development and Learning. She can be seen on Teachers TV delivering a lecture about English as an additional language and has worked as a Bilingual Support Tutor, a Literacy Consultant and a class teacher working with pupils with English as an additional language.