Learning English (EAL)
Higher ability Year 2, 3 and 4
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a child in a travelling circus? This reading comprehension gives information about children who live on the Moscow State Circus. It includes questions to see if the reader can find answers from the text.
EYFS, KS1
Booktrust: Lulu Loves Stories, an interactive picture book, the text is in English with audio in Arabic, Bengali, Dutch, French, German, Gujarati, Gaelic, Italian, Japanese, Luganda, Mandarin, Polish, Punjabi, Somali, Spanish, Kiswahili, Tamil, Tigrinya, Urdu, Welsh.
Year 2 and upwards
Christy is a Traveller boy growing up in Ireland. His dream is to have his own horse but his mum says no. This resource includes a writing prompt, story map and a writing frame.
EYFS
Fun activities to help children learn letter names and sounds and names of colours. There are also counting and number recognition activities for learning numbers 1 to 10.
EYFS, KS1, KS2
This website has videos of stories accompanied by illustrations and a narrator. Good for extended listening practice for learners of English. This site works best through Google Chrome.
KS1, KS2
Memory games for children to practice shapes vocabulary. Children will learn to read and spell the names of shapes for example, square, triangle, rectangle, circle, cube, parallelogram, and pyramid.
KS1, KS2
Fun games to help children learn English vocabulary, English grammar, the names of numbers in English and practice telling the time.
EYFS, KS1, KS2
Stories in languages of different countries including, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, East Timor, Hungary, Hong Kong and Poland Simply visit the website, choose a country and enjoy the stories!
Primary
This is very supportive for children in the early stages of learning English. Has seven levels of stories with activities that support the understanding of the stories. There is audio with each story, pictures that support the understanding of the story, picture dictionaries where hovering your cursor over the image you hear the words in English, songs and games linked to stories that build vocabulary. This could be supportive and fun for English speakers.
EYFS, KS1
A crocodile board game for children to practice numbers 1 to 100. Children can also practice English vocabulary and English grammar. Scroll down to click on the frog to start the activity.
KS2, KS3
British Council: LearnEnglish Kids, an online course for children up to the age of 12 years who are new to learning English as an additional language (EAL) or are in the early stages of learning EAL.
KS2, KS4, Post 16
British Council LearnEnglish Teens, an online course for teenagers who are new to learning English as an additional language (EAL) or are in the early stages of learning EAL.
EYFS, KS1, KS2, KS3
Electronic books in 38 languages. Each book is read aloud in English and another language. There are traditional stories and reference books. Each book has a video and activities to help build children’s English language skills. This resource is offered FREE until 31 August 2020. You need to fill in your name and email address to gain access to the resources.
KS2
Stories for children to watch, listen to and read. Each story is accompanied by English language activities for children to practice their reading and writing skills. There are 8 stories to enjoy. The stories and activities are for children who have quite a good level of English language.
EYFS, KS1, KS2
Children can read or listen to story books and information books in English and languages such as Polish, Chinese, Portuguese, Arabic, Hungarian, Malayalam and Somali. Books are read in 42 different languages. Parents or children should click on the ‘Narration’ button that will take them to the list of languages.
Primary
WorldStories is an online library of children’s stories from around the world: traditional tales and new short stories in 31 languages spoken by children in the UK. Children can read stories in their first language and then read the same story in English. This will develop their English vocabulary and comprehension of English.