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RIC-20937 Early years Fairytales - Gingerbread Man

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Teachers notes<br />

About the artwork<br />

All the artwork in this series of books is:<br />

• age-appropriate<br />

• teacher- and child-friendly<br />

• an additional resource to help develop the theme<br />

• suitable for enlarging for:<br />

~ colouring<br />

~ handwriting<br />

~ dot-to-dot sheets<br />

~ use as templates for art and craft activities<br />

~ visual texts to encourage oral language development.<br />

Some artworks are based on simple shapes to support learning in the mathematics<br />

area; others are more elaborate. It is anticipated that early childhood teachers will<br />

view an illustration based on shapes and be able to use this idea to develop concrete<br />

play activities using shapes or as a technology and design project. More elaborate<br />

artwork is used to demonstrate a teaching resource which needs to be made, a recipe,<br />

game or other activity.<br />

Examples of artwork relating to art and craft activities have wide, bold, easily visible<br />

cutting outlines to allow the children some variation in the cutting path they will use.<br />

About the resource sheets/blacklines<br />

Resource sheets/blacklines contain:<br />

• simple, age-appropriate artwork<br />

• prominent visual clues<br />

• little or no text<br />

• visual clues to support text pages<br />

• few instructions, so as not to confuse beginning readers<br />

• teacher instructions in the margins with a number of different<br />

suggestions for using the resource sheet/blackline<br />

• literacy and numeracy activities.<br />

These resource sheets/blacklines are included as valuable time-savers<br />

for teachers.<br />

It is anticipated that the teacher will enlarge any pages to A3 size and<br />

photocopy them onto more durable paper or card, to make them easier<br />

for learners of this age group to manipulate.<br />

The cross-curricular section of each theme includes a reference to<br />

resource sheets/blacklines relating to specific activities.<br />

R.I.C. Publications ® – www.ricpublications.com.au <strong>Early</strong> <strong>years</strong> themes—<strong>Fairytales</strong> vii

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