Frequently asked questions The Rainbow Workbooks

The Department of Basic Education is providing

Yes. All the workbooks follow the
Can I use workbooks for every schoolchild for mathematics
same format and topic sequencesncess
them in multi- and mother tongue language at no cost to the
so they can be easily used in
school or parents.
grade and multi-language classrooms.
The workbooks can also be
multi-language These workbooks will help teachers to manage their
used flexibly to allow for different
classrooms? teaching time and monitor the progress and performance
groups in the class to do different workbook level tasks.
of their learners.

Literacy/language: Grades 1 to 6 in
Are other resources The “fun” approach used in the materials
aterials requires
requ
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ors, a glue stick, colour
learners have a small pair of scissors,
needed to use the e usual stationery and
crayons or pencils in addition to the
available in
Numeracy: Grades 1 to 3 in all the languages.
workbooks? struments.
grade appropriate mathematical instruments. 2011
Grades 4 to 6 in English and Afrikaans.

Mathematics: Grades 7 to 9 in English

Can the Each and every child should have their own
New and Afrikaans.
learners keep workbooks. They can take them home and workbooks to Lifeskills: Grades 1 to 3 in all official
the workbooks? they can (and indeed must) write in them.
m. be available languages.
in 2012 First Additional Language:
Grades 1 to 9 in English.
No. They are workbooks. They save
the teacher from writing exercises onn The Braille versions of these books
Do the workbooks
the chalkboard and preparing their own will be available in 2012.
replace textbooks seful
worksheets. Though they are very useful
and lesson in lesson planning, they are not a Teacher Guides for each workbook.

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You should write the word in your
dictionary so you don’t forget it.
Policy Statement
(CAPS) of 2011.
The These workbooks are easy to follow and each worksheet offers The First Workbooks for First Additional Language (from Grades 1 to 9)
systematic practice in key listening, reading and writing skills. The will be available in 2012. These books follow the same learning
language mother-tongue language workbooks start in Grade 1 with school
Additional approach utilised in the mother tongue books so as to support
workbooks readiness activities to assist those children who have not had the Language learning across the other learning areas. The FAL workbooks
opportunity to attend a Reception grade class. Each worksheet workbooks provide support so that learners will be able to understand,
in the Foundation phase is designed for the systematic teaching speak, read and write English and, in the higher grades, use
of phonics, progressing from simple to more complex phonic English as the language of learning. Similar features in the
knowledge and skills and covering the major grapheme/phoneme layout of the home language workbooks are used for the FAL
Aa Apple correspondences. The worksheets flag the high frequency words in
the target language.
books.

Since the school curriculum makes particular language demands Posters and readers Numeracy / Mathematics workbooks
on learners, the workbooks teach literacy/language across the
Bb Ball curriculum so that learners begin to use, in their mother-tongue, the
special variety of language needed for learning purposes. This is
The workbooks for the first three grades are available in
the mother-tongue to assist in developing the essential
intended to support their development of conceptual and cognitive cognitive understanding of basic numerical concepts.
understandings of texts they encounter in other learning areas. The workbooks for Grades 4 to 6 are available in English
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