Teacher resources

• English as an additional language or dialect - Advice for schools (PDF 627KB) provides advice for the operation and management of EAL/D programs.
• The ESL Scales (PDF 521KB) resource is used by teachers as an assessment tool to describe the English language development of EAL/D learners in oral interaction, reading and responding and writing. Teachers use this tool to assist with assessment for learning, planning, programming and reporting progress.
• ESL Steps: ESL Curriculum Framework K-6 is an ESL Scales referenced planning and programming tool for teachers of EAL/D students in primary schools. The stage based teaching guides provide a framework for EAL/D teaching and learning based on a social view of language.
  • ESL Steps: Curriculum Framework Early Stage 1 (PDF 220 KB)
  • ESL Steps: Curriculum Framework K-6 Stage 1 (PDF 247KB)
  • ESL Steps: Curriculum Framework K-6 Stage 2 (PDF 310KB)
  • ESL Steps: Curriculum Framework K-6 Stage 3 (PDF 377KB)
• As part of the ACARA EAL/D teacher resource, the EAL/D Learning Progression provides descriptors of four phases of English language proficiency. This advice is used to determine school RAM allocations.
• Intensive English Programs Curriculum Framework: Secondary (coming soon).

Student resources

Out and About - A series of interactive literacy resource readers for EAL/D beginners with first language support in Arabic, Dari and Dinka.

• City Excursion
• A music lesson
• Manly excursion

ESL Readers - A series of interactive stories and games for EAL/D students who are in the early stages of learning English. There are three animated stories and all three titles have a separate teachers resource, which is available in 22 different languages.

• Sick at school
• A mysterious meeting
• Mandy's bad day
• Picture dictionary for ESL Beginners
• Thematic Picture Dictionary (PDF 2.4MB)
• Thematic Picture Dictionary Workbook (PDF 7.9MB)
• ESL Numeracy: Number

Bilingual dictionaries – A teaching and learning resource for use by students in the first 12 to 18 months of English language acquisition.