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Language and Languages in the Primary School Some guidelines for teachers by David Little and Déirdre Kirwan
Developing plurilingual literacy by building on pupils’ knowledge and experience
At Stage 2, EAL pupils enjoy writing about themselves and topics of interest in English and their HL (Figures 9–11).
Figure 9: Identity text in English and
Spanish (First Class, with help from
parents)
Figure 10: Text in English and Bosnian
(Second Class, written unaided in class)
Figure11: Text about food in English and Latvian
Pupils also like to write and illustrate small dual-language books about themselves and their family, the school and its
garden, their favourite animal, hobbies, weather and so on. Two sheets of A4 folded twice, cut and stapled make a book
of eight pages. Such books can be read aloud to the rest of the class and displayed at events in school, when video
recordings of pupils reading their work may also be shown (Figure 12). Confidence acquired in writing identity texts
can lead to pupils taking on the challenge of writing a book about themselves (Figure 13).
Figure 12: A description of ‘Our School Garden’ written in Polish and English (Second Class)
Figure 13: An extract from ‘My life’ written
in Spanish and English (Second Class)
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