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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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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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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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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This blog post accompanies our new Rivers of Reading activity, talking about the research behind it.
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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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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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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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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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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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Our first in a continuing series of book reviews, we discuss The Moose of Ewenki, set in Inner Mongolia
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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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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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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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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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