Resourcing the Grade R classroom
Across
- 2. This specific stage of the Big Book process involves learners and teachers discussing how each page will physically show or say information.
- 6. These highly personal, portable literacy tools allow learners to "write" their own ideas and are often sent home to bridge school and family engagement.
- 8. These resources are often created by learners cutting out magazine images, act as instructional backdrops for nature or interest tables.
- 10. This specific writing style, such as "Grade 1" or "ABC Junior," must be used on all teacher-made resources to ensure visual consistency for emergent readers.
Down
- 1. By allowing learners to make their own resources, the teacher helps them feel capable and self-____, preventing the psychosocial feeling of inferiority.
- 3. This discarded material, along with newspapers and jars, is repurposed to create meaningful learning tools when school funds are limited.
- 4. These creative tools, used for dramatisation, are listed as a specific resource that should be "made by the learners" to encourage initiative.
- 5. A collaborative project that functions as a learner-generated picture dictionary to support specific vocabulary acquisition.
- 7. This specific tool shifts the learner's role from consumer to creator through the collaborative documentation of group stories.
- 9. This sensory material is listed as a vital recyclable resource used for building letters or feeling shapes directly on the floor.