For EAL professionals and any teacher involved in the assessment of EAL new arrivals. The bilingual interview is the first part of the hypothesis-testing process I talk about in my blog article 'Case Study #1 SEN or EAL?' It enables you to collect previous educational experience and other info useful in deciding how to approach differentiation and whether any difficulties the child is presenting may be cognitive or affective. Please see my article for further info.

Your EAL pupils will benefit from this practical experiment in germination that allows them to accelerate their use of academic English. This power point is designed to be used in conjunction with the EAL Germination Booklet. Well structured with strong visuals, key vocabulary and frequent learning checks. Check out my blog for tips on how to use this power point and the booklet as a blue print for planning cognitively stimulating and language-rich, context-embedded EAL curriculum materials.

EAL pupils will be introduced to the language required to learn about 4 basic life processes and to do an experiment in seed germination. The booklet is designed to go with the accompanying power point EAL and Germination. Check out my blog article that details how to use both as a blueprint for structuring context-embedded language learning that accelerates academic language acquisition. Included: key vocabulary translation opportunities writing assessment opportunity to level with the DFE Codes of Competency

Huge amount of good, well-structured, challenging material to fit the Pearson Edexcel GCSE Viva textbook. Best when used with electonic and hardcopy textbook although most slides can be printed out to be used. Activities are flexible - two lessons each with up to 75 minutes worth of teaching materials so power points can be edited down as needed. Learning objectives, learning checks and RAG-rating included making it easy to pitch towards all abilities. You can edit to include the assessment/grading scheme of your setting easily. Slides can be printed out for worksheets if needed. See the rest of the GCSE Viva Module 1 Deconectate resources in my shop as well as revision and assessment practice. Hope it helps!

Big, useful pack of revision for AQA Social Media Topic, practice speaking materials, homeworks, independent activities for class to do while assessing, lots of flexible useful materials to help prepare students and keep them busy while you assess. All resources editable so you can tailor to your setting and students. 5 power points, two booklets - all flexible use!

Huge amount of good, well-structured, challenging material to fit the AQA Mod 2 Social Media topic. Meant to be used with Kerboodle OUP AQA GCSE Spanish textbook. Activities are flexible - two lessons each with 75-minutes worth of teaching materials so power points can be edited down as needed. Learning objectives, learning checks and RAG-rating included making it easy to pitch towards all abilities. You can edit to include the assessment/grading scheme of your setting easily. Slides can be printed out for worksheets if needed. See other Social Media resources as well as revision and assessment practice. Hope it helps!

Huge amount of good, well-structured, challenging material to fit the AQA Mod 2 Social Media topic. Meant to be used with Kerboodle OUP AQA GCSE Spanish textbook. Activities are flexible - two lessons each with 75-minutes worth of teaching materials so power points can be edited down as needed. Learning objectives, learning checks and RAG-rating included making it easy to pitch towards all abilities. You can edit to include the assessment/grading scheme of your setting easily. Slides can be printed out for worksheets if needed. See other Social Media resources as well as revision and assessment practice. Hope it helps!

This document uses the AQA CGP 9-1 Revision Guide to help students plan ahead based on your scheme of work. You need to fill in what your doing and the accompanying pages in the Guide. It gives study advice, useful websites and a proforma for a revision timetable. Edit as needed! If you like this, check out my shop and other GCSE AQA or Edexcel Spanish materials.

Huge amount of good, well-structured, challenging material to fit the Pearson Edexcel GCSE Viva textbook. Best when used with electonic and hardcopy textbook although most slides can be printed out to be used. Activities are flexible - one lesson with up to 75 minutes worth of teaching materials so power point can be edited down as needed. Learning objectives, learning checks and RAG-rating included making it easy to pitch towards all abilities. You can edit to include the assessment/grading scheme of your setting easily. Slides can be printed out for worksheets if needed. See the rest of the GCSE Viva Module 1 Desconectate resources in my shop as well as revision and assessment practice. Hope it helps!

Huge amount of good, well-structured, challenging material to fit the Pearson Edexcel GCSE Viva textbook. Best when used with electonic and hardcopy textbook although most slides can be printed out to be used. Activities are flexible - one lesson with up to 75 minutes worth of teaching materials so power point can be edited down as needed. Learning objectives, learning checks and RAG-rating included making it easy to pitch towards all abilities. You can edit to include the assessment/grading scheme of your setting easily. Slides can be printed out for worksheets if needed. See the rest of the GCSE Viva Module 1 Deconectate resources in my shop as well as revision and assessment practice. Hope it helps!

Good post-assessment lesson which allows pupils to self-assess and do a number of EBI activities associated with their targets.

Huge amount of good, well-structured, challenging material to fit the Pearson Edexcel GCSE Viva textbook. Best when used with electonic and hardcopy textbook although most slides can be printed out to be used. Activities are flexible - two lessons each with up to 75 minutes worth of teaching materials so power points can be edited down as needed. Learning objectives, learning checks and RAG-rating included making it easy to pitch towards all abilities. You can edit to include the assessment/grading scheme of your setting easily. Slides can be printed out for worksheets if needed. See the rest of the GCSE Viva Module 1 Deconectate resources in my shop as well as revision and assessment practice. Hope it helps!

This editable word-based document is the featured resource in my Practical Case Studies Series #2 on EAL or SEN pupils. The article details our experience with a multi-lingual student who did not have established literacy skills in his three languages. In the article, I explain the research-based theory behind why we used this resource and how it helped. Feel free to download it and edit as needed for your students. Follow the shop link to my blog EAL Made Easy for the full article.

A flexible, editable booklet resource which can be used to set a half-term’s homework or given as an extension booklet. It has a variety of graded activities and in-built opportunities to feedback from parents and teachers as well as student self-assessment by language and academic targets. Useful to have around!

An editable, flexible booklet which covers countries, nationalities, languages, pets, siblings and reading and writing. It incorporates opportunities for self-reflection as well as student, parent and teacher feedback. Good for use as a half-termly homework booklet or extension work. 12 pages in all, 8 of which have activities.

Useful revision lesson for Viva 1 Module 3 based on the Te toca a ti pages at the end of the textbook. Can be used as an end-of-year revision or end-of-module revision. I have used this for both and it works well in conjunction with the textbook and electronic book. Electronic book activities are optional. Well structured with graded objectives, learning checks and RAG-rating for accessibility for all abilities. Can be edited to reflect your school’s KS3 assessment scheme. Hope it helps!

Useful revision lesson for Viva 1 Module 1 based on the Te toca a ti pages at the end of the textbook. Can be used as an end-of-year revision or end-of-module revision. I have used this for both and it works well in conjunction with the textbook and electronic book. Electronic book activities are optional. Well structured with graded objectives, learning checks and RAG-rating for accessibility for all abilities. Can be edited to reflect your school’s KS3 assessment scheme. Hope it helps!

Useful revision lesson for Viva 1 Module 2 based on the Te toca a ti pages at the end of the textbook. Can be used as an end-of-year revision or end-of-module revision. I have used this for both and it works well in conjunction with the textbook and electronic book. Electronic book activities are optional. Well structured with graded objectives, learning checks and RAG-rating for accessibility for all abilities. Can be edited to reflect your school’s KS3 assessment scheme. Hope it helps!

An editable booklet with a variety of independent activities on basic topics of greetings, names, numbers and birthdays. Gives a place for parents and teachers to comment on student work and for students to self-assess against academic skills. Well-designed, flexible resource for your Year 7’s first half term.

Finally! A set of verb revision lessons that can be used to introduce the verbs to any KS4 year group or to freshen your Year 11’s knowledge; designed by an Edexcel examiner - me! All ten power points cover regular and irregular past, present and future tenses. Each provides over 1-hour, with regular learning checks and activities that are well-structured yet flexible. Lessons provide a space for students to make revision cards and so can also be used for KS4 revision club! GCSE overviews are based on the structure of the Edexcel Viva textbook series, but verb content can be used across all exam boards. Clear, bright layout with interesting visuals mean these verb slides can also be printed out for a wall display. Worksheets are NOT included as many revision guides provide good resources on this. Save yourself hours!