Curriculum and assessmentįirst Language Assessment Tasks – materials to assess upper primary and secondary newly arrived students' reading and writing skills in the languages of Arabic, Khmer, Somali, Turkish and Vietnamese. The publications listed below are available to download in pdf or similar format.

VicTESOL – EAL subject association giving support and services to generalist and EAL specialist teachers in Victoria.

EAL Regional Program Officers (RP0s) – support schools in their region to develop and implement effective EAL programs.

Regional and professional association support

VicTESOL Teaching and Learning Cycle – examples of a classroom-based approach to scaffold and explicitly teach language throughout a unit of work.

The Primary Literacy Toolkit has EAL-specific practice advice The Secondary Literacy Toolkit includes resources on disciplinary literacy.

Literacy Teaching Toolkit – advice and teaching practices that improve outcomes in speaking and listening, reading and viewing, and writing.

EAL Effective Practice e-book – videos and discussion prompts highlighting one Victorian school’s implementation of an explicit pedagogy for the teaching of disciplinary literacy.

You can use these as individual or team professional learning activities.

Getting to know the Victorian Curriculum F-10 EAL – includes materials that schools and teachers can use to become familiar with the curriculum.

Regional and professional association support.

We publish resources to support English as an Additional Language (EAL) teachers and schools to plan and deliver effective programs and to support teachers understanding, assessing and reporting on the English language proficiency of EAL students as they implement the Victorian Curriculum F-10 EAL.

Esl homework sheets