EAL and History: an integrated focus on content and language

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Watch Ms Kay, a history teacher at Trinity Academy Leeds, describe how she focuses on language and language development during a lesson on Queen Elizabeth I. Notice how she:
- Sets high expectations of language use;
- Plans for and reinforces language development across subject areas;
- Develops vocabulary;
- Focuses on language in guided reading;
- Uses visuals, gestures, language drills and sentence stems;
- Supports learners move from everyday language to history-specific language used in schools.
Video content:
00:00 - Intro & about the school
00:57 - High expectations
02:24 - Scaffolding learning
03:19 - Visualisers
04:57 - Using gestures
05:17 - Drilling key items
06:30 - Using mini whiteboards
07:41 - Using sentence stems
09:04 - Outro & resources
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