Tried and tested classroom strategies that you can use to help meet the needs of EAL learners in your classroom. Strategies that develop all four skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing for all proficiencies and all age ranges.
You can either click on the links below or navigate through the drop down menu at the top.
It would be great to hear from you as to which ones you have used and how you have used them in your classroom.
- Alphabet Race
- Answers Only
- Backs to the Board
- Barrier Crosswords
- Carousel Brainstorming
- Chunking
- Concentric Circle
- Concept Checking Questions
- Concept Definition Maps
- Conga Line
- Copy Correctly
- Dash and Draw
- Describe and Draw
- Dictogloss
- Evidence
- Find the Difference
- Find Someone Who
- Focused Listening
- Frayer Model / Four Square Strategy
- Gap Fills
- Give One. Get One
- Glossaries
- Graphic Organisers
- Highlighting / Underlining Texts
- How many words can you think of…?
- I have…Who Has…?
- I-SEE Word Analysis Frame
- Jigsaw Reading
- Knowledge Rating Scale
- KWL Charts
- Language Features Displayed
- Margin Questions
- Memory
- Mixed Up Sentences
- Monster Cloze
- No Hands
- Odd One Out
- Oral / Aural Cloze
- Picture Walk
- Progressive Brainstorm
- Question or Sentence Matching
- Quiz Quiz Trade
- Rapid Write
- Readability Calculators
- Read It. Say it.
- Realia
- Running Dictation
- Semantic Webs / Maps
- Showdown
- Split Dictation
- Split Headlines
- SQP2RS
- Snowball
- Substitution Tables
- Talk Partners for EAL
- Team Pictionary
- Think Alouds
- Think, Pair, Share
- Think, Pair, Square, Share
- Think, Write, Pair, Share
- Top 10
- True / False Statements
- Turn and Talk
- Two truths and One Lie
- Vanishing Cloze
- Vocabulary Noughts and Crosses
- Walk Around Survey
- Wallpapering
- Wait Time
- Which One?
- Word Experts
- Word Tennis
- Write Alouds
- 1-3-6
EAL in the Daylight 
And we have free teacher made resources that develop many of these strategies in curriculum context K through 13.
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