Primary good practice ideas

Classroom practice

• Collaborative learning
• Peer-based learning
• Barrier games
• Dictogloss
• Reciprocal reading
• Listening to stories or recordings
• Discussing stories – using narratives to build vocabulary, sentence structures and comprehension
• Using scaffolding and examples to facilitate language production
• Giving clear, non-complicated instructions
• Exposing learners to good models of social and academic language
• Using project-based activities
• Promoting social interaction
• Using visual resources to enhance context – graphs, knowledge organisers, mind-maps, posters, videos etc.
• Great Ideas page or contact the EMA Advisory Teacher in your area.

Last updated 30 January 2023