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This 42 page paper, including appendices, discusses teaching reading in English to primary students whose first language is not English. The paper begins with an abstract. The Introduction provides background information and data including the ethnic minority data in England, Wales, and Scotland, the proportion of each ethnic minority group living in the UK, the 9 most common foreign languages spoken in London, and other related data, including the overall academic achievement of some of these groups. The paper then discusses the importance of reading, the development of reading skills, teaching English reading to EAL primary pupils and concludes with an epilogue. Six Appendices comprise lessons for teaching beginning reading. Data are included 5 tables are included. Bibliography lists 25 sources.
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makeup of the United Kingcom along with the proportion of different ethnicities/races in Britains schools. The essay then moves on to discuss the importance of reading. The purpose of
this section is to remind all of us that all children need to learn how to read in English. This is not an optional skill. The next section discusses reading
development, citing sources such as the International Reading Association and many other experts and authors. This section explains how a child develops the skill of reading and emphasizes the point
that children learn at different speeds and in different ways. This section also discusses the complexity and sophistication of reading; it is not an easy task for many students and
is even harder for the child who is not fluent in English. We then move into strategies for teaching EAL students how to read in English. A number of theories
and ideas are discussed. The essay includes an epilogue and 6 Appendices. Introduction The migration into the United Kingdom has increased steadily since the end of World War II
(Phillips, 1998). Migrants have arrived in large numbers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the West Indies, South Asia, the Caribbean and other regions (Phillips, 1998). The 1991 census revealed that the
minority ethnic population totaled 3 million, which represented 5.5 percent of the entire population of the United Kingdom (Phillips, 1998). The proportion of ethnic minorities in London is 40 percent
and 38 percent in Leicester (Curtis , 2001). The following table reports the ethnic distribution in the United Kingdom as of the 2001 census. The report is presented in
terms of the percentage of each minority/ethnic group in terms of the entire ethnic minority population, for example, 50 percent of all ethnic minorities in England are Asian (Census 2001).
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