Homeschool curriculum resources for second language Afrikaans learners.
The resources below are intended to help students develop the following second language Afrikaans skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking.
Even though students of this age are probably able to read alone, we encourage you to continue to read aloud with them. Firstly, you will read at a more advanced level than they may be able to and secondly, you will enjoy all the benefits of sharing literature together.
Second Language Afrikaans Text Books
Afrikaans Sonder Grense Gr 7
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Afrikaans Sonder Grense Gr 8
Afrikaans Handbook and Study Guide
A useful guide to Afrikaans grammar and language structures.
Oxford English/Afrikaans Dictionary
A bilingual dictionary is an essential tool for Afrikaans language lessons.
Workbooks and Readers
Afrikaans Second Language Resources – click to email for prices of the workbooks and readers recommended in this section.
We recommend using a combination of any of the products below during each grade of this phase, as each one alone would probably take about 6 months to complete. For example the Ant books and then a different workbook. They are good complements to each other and will re-inforce your children’s Afrikaans language skills before you move on to the next level.
Workbooks – Leer Afrikaans Lag-Lag and Lekker Afrikaans 6
These workbooks are well-priced and include comprehension activities, grammatical exercises, suggestions for oral activities as well as creative writing activities, spelling, dictation, vocabulary extension plus fun activities such as crosswords and more!
There are also periodic revision tests.
To help second language Afrikaans learners, there are sometimes helpful hints in English along with the Afrikaans instruction.
Most children will be able to complete an average of about 2 pages a day. Order from SA Homeschool Suppliers.
Ant Books – Workbooks and Readers
For Grade 7 second language Afrikaans, your children could use level 4 of the Ant Book series. It consists of two yellow workbooks plus 8 green coloured readers.
Each reader is a 12 page booklet with up to 65 words per page in the present tense. They focus on Stoute Neels at school and are intended to improve vocabulary, word-order, competence, pronunciation and comprehension skills.There is a dictionary page to start and questions at the end of each book.
The workbooks, based on the set of readers, will improve comprehension, Afrikaans grammar, vocabulary, phonics, spelling, written expression …all aspects of written language. They also contain sufficient repetition and drill as well as fun activities such as crossword puzzles, word searches and more.
PRICES
Order from Ant Books.
Readers
Straat Speurders – Hawe Avontuur
A mystery involving four street children.
Straat Speurders – Sink of Swem
The four street kids investigates a gang of crooks operating in Hout Bay harbour.
Read Alouds
Die Otters
This must be our favourite story that we read together. A group of boys at boarding school stick together through thick and thin!
Somer Van Die Stormvoel
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