Lost Wor(l)ds
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'Lost Wor(l)ds' exploring & celebrating heritage languages spoken by pupils and their families, through nature. Tweets by @sabinelittle
Sheffield, England
Joined October 2020
@LostWor_l_ds aims to maximise impact of @sabinelittle 's award winning research: Producing teaching aids that explore and celebrate multilingualism in primary education. Follow, tweet or email us: lostworlds@sheffield.ac.uk.
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RT @sabinelittle: This is it - the start of #30dayswildmultilingual - 1 post a day in June, encouraging multilingualism in schools. Downloa….
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RT @sabinelittle: It is the Big Garden Birdwatch this week-end, and a chance to turn birdwatching into a multilingual activity thanks to th….
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RT @MrsKirstBarrett: This was a suggestion at the last community of practice. Looking forward to planning out this session with lots of id….
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RT @sabinelittle: Some fab examples of translanguaging in the classroom from NALDIC:
naldic.org.uk
Esther: Many international schools are very interested in the concept of translanguaging. Current research suggests translanguaging supports students’
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RT @Stickforamoon: Fantastic interview with @sabinelittle on the @lovereadingkids website about multilingualism in schools. Tops tips on cr….
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RT @soofia_amin: Amazing research that shows being multilingual supports children from low socioeconomic backgrounds. The results in the l….
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Lost Wor(l)ds gets a mention, of course!!.
Introducing Dr @sabinelittle, Senior Lecturer in Languages Education at the @sheffielduni. Sabine joins our team with a focus on multilingualism, books embracing linguistic diversity and advice on how to build a multilingual library. Watch our chat:.
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RT @sabinelittle: Interested in setting up a multilingual library for your school? This year, I'll be working with 2 Sheffield schools, but….
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RT @HOWDEC: Love this thread of simple ideas to celebrate all the languages spoken by children in your class. #ThisIsLfS.
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Imploring the panel to bring in additional expertise to support multilingual classrooms/ multilingual pupils /EAL. No matter the label, we are at about a quarter of pupils speaking more than one language, and they and their teachers need taking into account.
Breaking: The 12-member panel appointed to review the curriculum and assessment for the new Labour government has been named. Here's the full list.
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Re-sharing this, as the school year start is creeping closer :).
Lovely teachers! Will your new class be multilingual, and would you like ideas on how to make everybody feel welcome from the start? Here's a 🧵w/ activity ideas, w/ links to lesson plans from the Lost Wor(l)ds project, facilitating children to thrive using all their languages ❤️
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For lots more ideas, visit , and feel free to contact me here, or at @sabinelittle @EducationSheff
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To take it a step further, consider a multilingual library or library corner - see a full guide here, and/or contact me if I can help:
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Encourage children to share their home or heritage languages as part of shared reading - view an example here, or contact me for more!
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Speaking of language awareness, this starter activity is a great chance for children to use their language skills to work out what minibeasts are introduced in various languages - while at the same time showing a number of different scripts:
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For outside learning such as minibeast surveys, again, asking children to share words in their home languages not only shows them these are welcome, but also build language awareness, as children compare words across different languages:
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Whenever you ask children to draw and label something, invite them to do so using all their languages - you get to see if they've grasped the subject/topic and are just missing some vocabulary, and parents have a chance to fill gaps in the home language:
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Asking children to create a "River of Reading" gives you valuable insight into home literacy development in all languages, and builds bridges to parents and carers, who help with thinking back to early literacy memories:
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Language Portraits are a great visual activity to do as a "getting to know you" - it gives children the chance to share what languages are part of their identity, and an immediate opportunity to show them that all languages are welcome in your classroom:
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Lovely teachers! Will your new class be multilingual, and would you like ideas on how to make everybody feel welcome from the start? Here's a 🧵w/ activity ideas, w/ links to lesson plans from the Lost Wor(l)ds project, facilitating children to thrive using all their languages ❤️
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