Resourcing the Grade R classroom

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