Good practice for pupils learning English as an additional language; lessons from effective literacy teachers in inner city primary schools.

This article presents observations and discussion of the successful teaching of English to pupils, in English primary schools, for whom English is an additional language (EAL). It draws on research in Year 2 (6/7year old) classes in three inner-city primary schools carried out in 2003 and 2005. Three recognised, effective teachers of literacy were selected for case study; all worked in successful schools where results for literacy, measured by national tests, were in line with or better than national averages. Following analyses of lesson observations and interviews with the teachers, their Headteachers and the EAL co-ordinators in the schools, a number of common elements in their practice emerged. Discussion centres on how these pedagogical features supported effective learning environments for the early literacy development of bilingual children, and on the implications for the practice of teaching English to all pupils.

Lessons in language: an introduction to the study of English grammar

Mode of access: Internet.

How to talk, or, Primary lessons in the English language /

Illustrated with over 200 engravings.

First lessons in grammar, abridged from the Grammar of the English language.

At head of title: Old nomenclature with the new.

Gradual lessons in grammar, or, Guide to the construction of the English language by the analysis and composition of sentences /

On spine: Tower's English grammar.

A grammar of the English language in a series of letters : intended for the use of schools and of young persons in general; but more especially for the use of soldiers, sailors, apprentices, and plough-boys. To which are added six lessons, intended to prevent statesmen from using false grammar and from writing in an awkward manner.

Mode of access: Internet.

The English spelling book : accompanied by a progressive series of easy and familiar lessons, intended as an introduction to a correct knowledge of the English language /

Mode of access: Internet.

The reader : containing I. The art of delivery ... a selection of lessons in the various kinds of prose : II. Poetick numbers ... a selection of lessons in the various kinds of verse : being the third part of a Columbian exercise, the whole comprising an easy and systematical method of teaching and of learning the English language /

Mode of access: Internet.

An abridgement of Murray's grammar ; to which is added a set of lessons, containing examples, explanations, rules, and questions, suited to the several parts of speech and forms of the English language /

Shaw & Shoemaker

A grammar of the English language in a series of letters. Intended for the use of schools and of young persons in general ; but more especially for the use of soldiers, sailors, apprentices, and plough-boys. To which are added six lessons intended to prevent statesmen from using false grammar and from writing in an awkward manner.

Title on spine: Cobbett's grammar.

Language lessons from literature,

Book 2: by Alice Woodworth Cooley ... assisted by W. F. Webster ...

Lessons in the speaking and writing of English...

Mode of access: Internet.

Lessons in English : composition, grammar, and rhetoric combined /

Includes index.

Normal language lessons /

"Works of reference": p. [v].

Language lessons /

Cover title: Metcalf and Bright's language lessons.