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Make remote lessons accessible
Adapt and differentiate your existing lessons to make them accessible to everyone, including your pupils with EAL.
Take care to not automatically group all learners with EAL together – instead, take each pupil's language proficiency as your starting point.
Share the principles below with your teachers and use them to assess whether pupils with EAL are being supported when learning remotely. These approaches are best practice for all teaching; remember that your pupils with English as their first language will also benefit from added clarity.
Think about the language demands of your lesson in advance
What vocabulary do pupils need to understand to access the core content?
Before the lesson, upload it to your online learning area with short explanations and/or images for each word. Ask pupils to translate the