RIG Convenor: Dianne Excell Post: Dianne Excell
November 9th 2017
Hovingham Primary School, Leeds
Theme: Reading Challenges for EAL Learners
Topics included:
- Therese O’Sullivan – Led a discussion on experiences of using the new Bell Foundation EAL Assessment Framework;
- Dianne Excell: Reading Challenges for EAL pupils;
- Inderjit Soor: – EAL strategies through story telling in L1;
- Dianne Excell: Practical session How do we decode? Greek words;
- Dianne Excell: Video on strategies for Emergent Bilinguals;
- Katy Parkinson: Lexonik, a commercial reading Intervention;
- discussion on other commercial packages;
- Anna Czebiolko: Guided Reading in a Leeds secondary school;
- Updates on NALDIC and EAL events, courses, statutory requirements etc.

