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Drawing materials – e.g. crayons, colouring pencils, paper, etc.
Age-appropriate storybooks.
Dressing-up box.
Finger or glove puppets.
Camera (digital if possible, but disposable cameras are fine).
Picture dictionary for children.
Real objects or toy objects such as doll’s tea set, model cars, plastic fruits, vegetables, etc.
Soft ball.
Food packets.
Visually-based classroom games that focus on areas of the curriculum for language support such as
food, the home, parts of the body, etc.
Tape recorder.
Songs and rhymes.
Useful classroom resources
Charts of nature, the seasons, etc. Use charts associated with English and Irish reading schemes.
Sets of picture cards for sequencing and matching, describing emotions, etc.
Phonics schemes as used in infant classes.
Flash cards – use pictures and/or words. Make a double set for snap.
Collection of pictures from magazines, catalogues, etc.
Big scrapbooks for making class storybooks, class diary, weather journal, etc.
A ‘feely bag’ containing, for example, fur, sandpaper, glass (very small bottle only), sponge, plastic,
elastic band, piece of lego, feather, lead weight (use a fishing weight), cotton wool, piece of candle,
blu-tack, etc. The bag will grow over time.
Objects for ‘play shop’. Use those seen in the home and in the shops as well as classroom objects.