The Little Issue

A creative, fun magazine for schoolchildren aged five to nine years old in English, Afrikaans, isiXhosa, isiZulu and Sesotho. Filled with bedtime stories, competitions, and richly imagined, colourful activities, jokes and riddles, recipes and crafts. The content is smartly aligned with the South African Department of Education’s CAPS outcomes and is designed to raise literacy levels in this key age group. The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) carries out an international survey of fourth grade students every five years and South Africa placed at the bottom of the table in 2011 and 2016, with 78% of children in that age group being unable to read for meaning. The publication is an initiative of The Big Issue organisation.

Hi readers!

young minds matter

The Little Issue

LEARN TO READ • Read out loud, or ask someone to read to you

GROWING UP • People’s bodies change as they grow. Rong shows how.

What are best friends?

How Many? • Read the word sums. Write the answers in the blocks. Colour in!

Bake lovely heart cookies

I love

COLOUR YOUR HEART!

OUR OCTOPUS FRIENDS

Selemeng’s Cats

Activity time!

THE GENETICS

Trace the lines, or nerves, that run to the brain from:

UNCLE SAM’S PICNIC PARTY

seSOTHO + ENGLISH Batswadi ba ka My Parents

Thoko’s special soup/I Isobho likaThoko lekhethelo

Koketso’s favourite jersey/Eyona jezi ayithandayo uKoketso

The Library Visit

SOLVE THESE RIDDLES

Matching pairs