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New resources
The role of Specialist Teacher (preview and download)
Phonics
- Phonics introduction and overview – Residential 1 (preview and download ppt)
- Is a particular phonics approach better for teaching reading? (OASIS page) OASIS Summary of Goswami (2005)
- To what extent does pupils’ ability to sound out words affect their motivation to continue with the study of the language? (OASIS page) OASIS Summary of Erler & Macaro (2011).
- Tracking progress in beginner language learners’ ability to sound out new words (OASIS page). OASIS Summary of Woore (2009).
- The effects of phonics instruction on primary school learners’ French reading aloud (OASIS page). OASIS Summary of Porter (2014).
- Teaching reading to beginner learners of French in secondary school (OASIS page). OASIS Summary of Woore et al. (2018).
- Rationale for teaching phonics (preview and download pdf)
- Ideas for teaching phonics (preview and download pdf)
- NCELP Phonics CPD Half-day (preview and download ppt)
- Phonics CPD Handouts (preview and download zip folder of resources)
- NCELP Phonics – Why teach phonics? Research and Rationale – TRG Session 1 (preview and download ppt)
- NCELP Phonics in MFL TRG session 1 (preview and download ppt)
RESOURCES FOR TEACHING PHONICS
Presenting new SSC
French:
- French SSC – Poster (preview and download ppt)
- French SSC – source words (preview and download ppt)
- French SSC – source and cluster words (preview and download ppt)
- French SSC – Silent final consonant – teaching sequence (preview and download ppt)
- French SSC – Silent final consonant – teaching sequence plus audio (preview and download ppt)
German
- German SSC – Poster (preview and download ppt)
- German target SSC – source words (preview and download ppt)
- German SSC – source and cluster words (preview and download ppt)
Spanish:
- Spanish SSC – Poster (preview and download ppt)
- Spanish target SSC – source words (preview and download ppt)
- Spanish SSC – source and cluster words (preview and download ppt)
Consolidating and developing SSC knowledge
- French listening and read aloud tasks (preview and download ppt)
- German listening and read aloud tasks (preview and download ppt)
- Spanish listening and read aloud tasks (preview and download ppt)
Applying SSC knowledge
- French Pelmanism SSCmix and answers (preview and download doc)
- French Reading activities [FLEUR] (preview and download doc)
- Spoken Homework (preview and download pdf)
Assessing SSC knowledge
- Phonics teaching discussion with VEO tags (preview and download doc)
- Phonics teaching discussion (preview and download doc)
French:
- NCELP French diagnostic decoding read aloud test 1 (preview and download doc)
- NCELP French phonological decoding test 1.1 (preview and download doc)
- French Decoding Test Time 1 [FLEUR] (preview and download doc)
- French Decoding Test Time 2 [FLEUR] (preview and download doc)
Spanish:
- NCELP Spanish diagnostic decoding read aloud test 1 (preview and download doc)
- NCELP Spanish phonological decoding test 1.1 (preview and download doc)
Vocabulary
Residential 1 resources
- Vocabulary introduction and overview – Residential 1 (preview and download ppt)
- AQA French Foundation Writing Paper Q2 (2018) (preview and download pdf)
- How vocabulary knowledge contributes to proficiency in the four skills. OASIS Summary of Milton (2013).
- Common verbs in French, German and Spanish (preview and download pdf)
- A review of current research on second language vocabulary learning. OASIS Summary of Schmitt (2008).
- Which methods of vocabulary learning are most effective with beginner learners? OASIS Summary of Sagarra & Alba (2006)
Vocabulary CPD resources
- NCELP Vocabulary CPD half-day (preview and download ppt)
- NCELP Vocabulary TRG session (preview and download ppt]
- NCELP Vocabulary TRG session – research (preview and download ppt)
- NCELP Vocabulary CPD handouts (preview and download zip folder of resources)
Vocabulary teaching resources
AQA GCSE Frequency Word lists
Vocabulary lists, rationale and uses (preview and download ppt)
French:
- Frequency information for AQA GCSE French vocabulary – A-Z, topic and parts of speech (preview and download excel)
- Frequency information for AQA GCSE French vocabulary – A-Z (preview and download doc)
- Frequency information for AQA GCSE French vocabulary – Topic (preview and download doc)
- Frequency information for AQA GCSE French vocabulary – Parts of speech (preview and download doc)
German:
- Frequency information for AQA GCSE German vocabulary – A-Z, topic and parts of speech (preview and download excel)
- Frequency information for AQA GCSE German vocabulary – A-Z (preview and download doc)
- Frequency information for AQA GCSE German vocabulary – topic (preview and download doc)
- Frequency information for AQA GCSE German vocabulary – parts of speech (preview and download doc)
Spanish:
- Frequency information for AQA GCSE Spanish vocabulary – A-Z, topic and parts of speech (preview and download excel)
- Frequency information for AQA GCSE Spanish vocabulary – A-Z (preview and download doc)
- Frequency information for AQA GCSE Spanish vocabulary – topic (preview and download doc)
- Frequency information for AQA GCSE Spanish vocabulary – parts of speech (preview and download doc)
Words within the 2000 most frequent in Spanish (Davies and Davies 2018) without entries in the AQA GCSE Spanish vocabulary specification.
- Spanish words not in the AQA listing – full list in excel format (preview and download excel)
- Spanish words not in the AQA listing – full list (preview and download doc)
- Spanish words not in the AQA listing – parts of speech (preview and download doc)
- Spanish cognates not in the AQA listing (preview and download doc)
- Spanish word form patterns not in the AQA listing (preview and download doc)
- Spanish false friends not in the AQA listing (preview and download doc)
Verb presentation resources
Focusing on the verb lexicon: Why and how to teach a verb vocabulary (preview and download pdf)
French:
- Overview of French verbs (preview and download pdf)
- 25 highest frequency verbs – French (preview and download zip file of resources)
- Poster – 25 highest frequency verbs – French (preview and download ppt)
- 15 high frequency prototype verbs – French (preview and download zip file of resources)
- Poster – 15 high frequency prototype verbs – French (preview and download ppt)
German:
- Overview of German verbs (preview and download pdf)
- 25 highest frequency verbs – German (preview and download zip file of resources)
- 15 high frequency prototype verbs – German (preview and download zip file of resources)
Spanish:
- Overview of Spanish verbs (preview and download pdf)
- 25 highest frequency verbs – Spanish (preview and download zip file of resources)
- 15 high frequency prototype verbs – Spanish (preview and download zip file of resources)
Vocabulary learning sequences
Vocabulary learning sequences: teacher notes (preview and download pdf)
French:
- French vocabulary learning sequence – descriptions (preview and download ppt)
- French vocabulary learning sequence – À l’école (preview and download ppt)
- French – Subjects Controlled Practice Pair Work (preview and download pdf)
German:
- German vocabulary learning sequence – Unterwegs (preview and download ppt)
- German – Sentence builder – Transport (preview and download pdf)
Spanish:
- Spanish vocabulary learning sequence – En la ciudad (preview and download ppt)
- Pair work Q&A version A (preview and download pdf)
- Pair work Q&A MAPS A (preview and download pdf)
- Pair work Q&A version B (preview and download pdf)
- Pair work Q&A MAPS B (preview and download pdf)
- Spanish – Sentence builder – En la ciudad (preview and download pdf)
Information gap tasks
French:
- Avoir-Etre Spot the Difference – French (preview and download pdf)
- Names and ages jigsaw task – French (preview and download pdf)
- Classroom Spot the Difference [B/W] – French (preview and download pdf)
- Classroom Spot the Difference [Colour] – French (preview and download pdf)
German:
- Spot the difference 15 verbs – German (preview and download pdf)
- Spot the difference transport – German (preview and download pdf)
- Guess Where cards – German(preview and download pdf)
- Guess Where Instructions – German (preview and download pdf)
- Map task Transport – German (preview and download pdf)
Spanish:
- Classroom Spot the Difference [B/W] – Spanish (preview and download pdf)
- Classroom Spot the Difference [Colour] – Spanish (preview and download pdf)
- Planet Spot the Difference [B/W] – Spanish (preview and download pdf)
- Planet Spot the Difference [Colour] – Spanish (preview and download pdf)
- Holiday Postcards Decision-making – Spanish (preview and download pdf)
Assessment
- Pupil self-assessment checklist template (preview and download doc)
- Pupil self-assessment checklist sample 1 – French (preview and download pdf)
- Pupil self-assessment checklist sample 2 – French (preview and download pdf)
- Pupil self-assessment checklist sample – German (preview and download pdf)
- Pupil self-assessment checklist sample – Spanish (preview and download pdf)
Grammar
- Grammar introduction and overview – Residential 1 (preview and download ppt)
- What do 49 studies tell us about the effectiveness of grammar teaching? OASIS Summary of Norris & Ortega (2001).
- Second language grammar learning: what is difficult and why? OASIS Summary of DeKeyser (2005).
- How do age and learning conditions influence second language learning? OASIS Summary of Lichtman (2016).
- The impact of different input activities on grammar learning for beginning language learners. OASIS Summary of Marsden (2006).
- Teaching grammar through different types of input activities. OASIS Summary of Kasprowicz & Marsden (2017).
Meaningful Practice
Meaningful Practice introduction and overview – Residential 1 (preview and download ppt)