however, it might be that the current focus in literacy lessons fails to allow pupils sufficient opportunity to develop their individual thinking through expression. children with English as an additional language particularly benefit from the opportunity To extend their speaking and listening skills within literacy lessons. these pupils will require provision for shared reading and writing to occur in small groups to allow quality interaction to take place. Some eal pupils will take longer to acquire cognitive academic language processes. For example, a bilingual support assistant might take a group of children and read the big book or develop writing in the home language before the whole-class literacy lesson, so that the children have a better understanding and knowledge of the content and process of the lesson. for example, a bilingual support assistant Might take a group of children and read the big book or develop writing in the home language before the whole-class literacy lesson, so that the children have a better understanding and knowledge of the content and process of the lesson.