Description

This edition includes a variety of articles which focus on reading and in future editions of the NALDIC Quarterly, the skills of speaking, listening and writing will be explored and discussed. We know that the division between the skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening is an artificial one. The four skills are interrelated and interdependent and the notion of inter-relationship and interdependency is reiterated and reinforced throughout many of the articles included in this edition.

Contents

Editorial (page 2)
Peta Ullmann

View from the Chair (page 3)
Steve Cooke

Policy, Practice and Research

NALDIC Response to the Rose Review of the Teaching of Reading (page 6)
Carrie Cable

Aiming High: Developing a National Approach to Securing the Progress and Attainment of Bilingual Learners (page 13)
Latika Davis

Key Stage 3: Observations on Baseline Reading Tests and Formal Assessments for EAL Learners (page 18)
Dianne Excell

Supporting more advanced bilingual learners in Key Stage 4 Geography lessons (page 23)
Chris Kelly & Amanda Gay

Starting a Games Club for Beginner Bilingual Pupils (page 25)
Amanda Gay

‘I Work in Partnership with Mainstream Colleagues’: Models of Support (page 27)
Maggie Gravelle

Supporting Biliteracy Development (page 31)
Charmian Kenner

“It’s too slow. It doesn’t make sense. I’ll ask my friend to help me – it’s better!”: Using e-translation in the classroom (page 33)
Nicola Davies & Dawn Lama

Minority Ethnic New Arrivals in Peterborough: A Local Authority Approach (page 39)
Paul Butcher

Multilingualism and Dyslexia (page 42)
Dr Ian Smythe

NALDIC News (page 48)

Refugee Children Update (page 53)

Conference Reports (page 58)