Developing Teaching and

Learning Materials
Teaching and learning
materials should be developed
keeping in mind flexible
grouping across grades.
• books,
• play materials and toys,
• specific subject kits, story books,
• musical instruments dictionaries (and even an encyclopedia if
available),
• paper, pencils, crayons, paint, colour markers, a whiteboard or chart
• paper
• maps
• models.
Multigrade classes require teaching and
learning materials in large quantity due to
the diverse grades studying in one
classroom.
These can either be visual or audio materials.
• Visual
• picture cards;
• flash cards; word/sentence cards as well as game cards
(a word-search or quiz); and charts (a calendar or
weather chart).

• Audio
• radio broadcasts;
• audio recordings;
• and tape-recorded songs/music.
Teaching and learning materials in multigrade classrooms can also be developed
using locally available materials that are of low cost and relevant to the local
culture.
These might include the following:

• materials such as limestone, charcoal or clay;

• discarded items like tin cans, plastic bottles, milk
boxes, magazines and bicycle parts.
To keep track of the materials you have
developed for your classroom - or might
need to develop - it is helpful to make a list
of topics to enable you to identify resources
and integrate the resources that are
relevant to the topic at the right time.