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Covid-19 from a complementary school’s perspective

Categories: Blog. Tags: complementary schools, Covid-19, heritage language schools, multilingual library, online classes and Romanian.

Over the past weeks and months, media has been full of concerns regarding learning, set-ups in schools, home-education, etc. But what has lockdown been like for complementary schools? With schools returning to classroom teaching this week, Alina Badescu, from the Romanian School in Manchester, gives us insights into the impact of the pandemic on learning and teaching at her school.

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Putting the World into World Book Day

Categories: Blog. Tags: award certificate, Ideas for the Classroom, multilingual library, Multilingual reading, parental engagement and World Book Day. Topics: Literacy and MFL.

Concrete ideas on how to make multilingual reading visible in school – this World Book Day and beyond. Includes downloadable award certificate for multilingual readers.

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Who has seen the wind?

Categories: Activities. Tags: Christina Rossetti and poetry. Topics: English, Literacy and MFL.

This activity uses Christina Rossetti’s poem to engage children in listening to, reading, thinking about, and writing poetry, drawing on their full linguistic repertoire. The activity is supported by a video (below), a worksheet, and a PowerPoint presentation.

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Happy International Mother Language Day

Categories: Blog. Tags: family, International Mother Language Day, multilingualism and school.

This International Mother Day, we asked on social media what it meant for parents to pass their language on to their children, and for children to be multilingual.

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What does a River have to do with Reading?

Categories: Blog. Tags: asynchronous biliteracy, biliteracy, literacy, multiliteracies, reading, river of reading, rivers of reading and UKLA.

This blog post accompanies our new Rivers of Reading activity, talking about the research behind it.

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Showing a river of reading in 3D

Rivers of Reading

Categories: Activities. Tags: bilteracy and literacy. Topics: Art & Design, Computing, English and Literacy.

This activity is particularly suitable for World Book Day, although it can be run at any time of the year. The Rivers of Reading methodology invites children to create a collage-like piece of work which links their reading experiences to critical incidents in their lives. It lends itself very well to home learning.

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Image of a mossy heart

Could your school be a Lost Wor(l)ds Feature School?

Categories: Blog. Tags: feature school and wanted. Topics: Art & Design, Computing, English, Geography, Literacy, MFL, Music and Science.

Every month, we are hoping to share schools on our blog who have used one or more of our activities, to gather examples of good practice, to showcase pupils’ language skills, and to enable schools to evidence their engagement with multilingualism in the classroom. Find out the very simple steps to become a Lost Wor(l)ds Feature School!

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Winter Scavenger Hunt

Categories: Activities. Tags: home learning idea. Topics: Computing, English, Literacy, MFL and Science.

This winter scavenger hunt is suitable for home learning, giving children the chance to explore the outdoors and decide what to enter in different categories on the accompanying worksheet.

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A selection of books about nature, in multiple languages

Write a Wor(l)d Book Review

Categories: Activities. Tags: home learning idea. Topics: Computing, English and Literacy.

The Lost Wor(l)ds blog hosts book reviews for books which feature nature, the environment, and conservation. This activity encourages children to write a book review themselves, with the possibility of having in published on the Lost Wor(l)ds website. The book review template for download is provided in Word format, enabling children to fill it in […]

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Bird Watch

Categories: Activities. Tags: citizen science and RSPB. Topics: Art & Design, Computing, English, Geography, Literacy, MFL and Science.

If you read this activity in January, we strongly recommend that you link it to the RSPB’s wonderful annual Big Garden Birdwatch, but it can be completed any time of year.

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Book cover of The Moose of Ewenki

Wor(l)d Books: The Moose of Ewenki

Categories: Blog. Tags: book review, China and Wor(l)d Books.

Our first in a continuing series of book reviews, we discuss The Moose of Ewenki, set in Inner Mongolia

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Calligrams

Categories: Activities. Tags: creative, home learning idea, picture poem and shape poem. Topics: Art & Design, English, Literacy and MFL.

A calligram (or shape poem or picture poem) uses words to create a visual image – a perfect opportunity for children to combine art and literacy, and use their various languages.

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Minibeast Survey

Categories: Activities. Tags: minibeast and survey. Topics: Geography, Literacy and Science.

This activity includes quick and easy suggestions on how to make the traditional “minibeast hunt” multilingual, taking as its starting point pupils’ knowledge of home languages, and facilitating pupils and the teacher to learn from and with each other.

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Dani on Ynys Enlli, looking at the Milky Way

Wor(l)d Views: Dani Robertson

Categories: Blog. Tags: Wor(l)d Views.

On Lost Wor(l)ds, we aim to introduce multilingual people who, through work or a hobby, have a strong connection to nature and the environment. In our first Wor(l)d Views interview, Dani Robertson talks to us about her work as a Dark Sky Officer, and her connection to Wales and Welsh.

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Name this minibeast

Categories: Activities. Topics: English and Science.

This activity could easily be used as a starter for a topic on minibeasts, or as a bit of light relief, asking students to work out minibeasts based on their names in other languages.

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