Creative Activities & Ideas for Pupils with
English as an Additional Language
Classroom Gems
By Maggie Webster
December 2011
Longman / Pearson Education
Distributed by the Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9781408267776
258 Pages
$37.50 Paper original
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
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: How to teach pupils with English as an Additional Language
Who is identified as EAL?
Stages of language Acquisition
How do you teach EAL pupils?
Immersion verses Bilingualism
What is the fastest method?
How do we support EAL learners in the multi-lingual classroom?
How to use Cummins’ framework
How to ensure learning is context embedded and cognitively demanding
The importance of Differentiation (GOTOS)
10 Top Tips
Chapter 2: First Days and Weeks: 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!
Song - Oranges and Lemons
Song - Ring a ring of roses!
Skipping song – Teddy Bear
Skipping song – Miss Susie had a baby!
Song – The Farmer in the dell!
‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?’ repetitive rhyme
Stuck in the mud!
Duck Duck Goose
Who took the Cookie?
Telephone song
Queenie I
Wet play games and Activities
Snakes and ladders
Matching jigsaw
Language Snap!
Happy Families
Word search
Crossword
Story tapes
Routines and codes of behaviour
Registration
Take Me home
All about me!
Rights and Responsibilities
Visual Timetable
Song - This is the way we...
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
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 interactive learning and 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 Programmes
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!
Further Reading
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
Index
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