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The Lighthouse Home Language resources are designed to support teachers to explicitly and systematically teach the technical skills of coding and encoding – reading and writing. In addition, children learn new vocabulary and general knowledge through listening to and discussing a wide range of stories. Our approach to language learning covers both sides of literacy learning – decoding and language comprehension.
Available Languages: Afrikaans, English, Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, isiXhosa, isiZulu
Grade 1-3 Home Language
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Teacher's Guide
Teacher’s Guides are designed as grade-specific, user-friendly teaching plans that include routine lessons and activities for all components.
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Anthologies
Anthologies are designed to be read aloud to learners in order to develop language comprehension, conceptual understanding and general knowledge.
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Big Books
Big Books are designed to help teachers build key genre-related vocabulary and teach young children about key language and literacy concepts.
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Posters
Posters are designed to engage learners and stimulate interest in and discussion around an aspect of the theme.
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Phonics Frieze Cards
Phonics Frieze Cards are designed to illustrate the phonemes and consonant blends taught or revised per term.
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Core Readers
Core Readers are designed to focus on the development of decoding and encoding skills as well as reading fluency and comprehension.
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Levelled Readers
The Levelled Readers are designed to engage learners, to develop their curiosity, to build their knowledge and to encourage a love of books and reading.
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Handwriting Posters
Handwriting Posters are designed to model letter formation guides for all lowercase and uppercase letters.
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Flashcards
Black-on-white print is intentionally used to ensure that flashcards are clearly visible. Key vocabulary, phonics and high-frequency words are reinforced using these cards.