EAL teaching portal · Practical guidance
Writing teaching guides
Practical EAL guidance for essays, summaries and feedback, connected to subject literacy and existing text-type resources.
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Writing practice
Essay writing
Plan an argument, rehearse paragraphs and fade the common frame.
Guide, examples and editable plan →Writing practiceSummary writing
Select essential ideas and paraphrase accurately within a classroom budget.
Guide, examples and editable plan →Writing practiceError-code feedback
Teach a small code set, revise with support and check transfer.
Guide, examples and editable plan →Read a subject model, discuss how it works, rehearse the ideas, write, then revise. Adapt the sequence to the discipline: a scientific explanation, a historical argument and a mathematical justification need different kinds of evidence.
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