isiZulu Teaching Resources

Whether you’re teaching isiZulu as a home language or an additional language, this collection of isiZulu teaching resources will help you teach with ease. It has a great selection of worksheets, activities, flashcards, posters, and readers you can use to help your learners take pride in their heritage and learn about other cultures. Best of all, they’re interactive, which is sure to keep your learners engaged!
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Lessons

IsiZulu Winter (Ubusika) Story and sorting cards - Literacy - Listening
Description
This isiZulu resource is made up of a simple story about Winter (Ubusika) and a set of cards with clothes we would most likely wear in winter. In winter we need to wear clothes that will keep us warm. The set of warm winter clothes cards can be used for an ordering activity after listening to or reading the story. Once the children have heard the story / or read the story, they need to sort the clothes cards in the order that they were mentioned in the booklet. This activity can be simplified by simply choosing three items of clothing and giving the order for just those three. You can print the story as an A5 booklet or I would recommend laminating the cards for durability. Please note that I do not speak isiZulu and all my isiZulu resources have come together from the work that I do for an N.P.O.(Siyakwazi). I have spent many hours researching and finding words, phrases etc that can assist in creating much needed isiZulu resources.
Activities

isiZulu and English Spelling Book
Description
A4 14 Page isiZulu and English Book with vocabulary in both English and isiZulu covering common topics. This book can be used to teach and revise the different vocabulary for each topic. The following topics are covered: • Months of the Year • Days of the week • Seasons • Numbers • Shapes • Colours • Pet and Farm animals • Wild animals • Water animals • Family members • Vegetables • Fruit
Readers

EzweniLonkamisa IsiZulu Decodable Readers grade 1 term 1
Description
A valuable resource to use to get your child started with reading in isiZulu. This set contains five stories based on the 5 consonants covered in Term 1 of grade 1. There is a warm up worksheet included for the learner to build up (encode) and decode words to be found in the story. There is a bonus 2 sheets for coloring in fun ( 5 vowel characters and the character of the consonant being introduced). Also a good resource for reading remediation. Collect all 21 stories for your learners.

What Else Flaffie? - isiZulu
Description
Experience a wonderful day with Flaffie the Jack Russel dog. He experiences feelings of loss and longing, excitement, and disappointment. Sometimes feelings can be hard to identify especially for young children. Books and stories of others like Flaffie can help children every step of the way in building emotional literacy. "What else Flaffie?" has been translated into Afrikaans, Zulu, isiXhosa, and Sesotho.

Matthew Griffiths - Incwadi Yasendlini
Description
A note from the Author: I wrote The Inside Book to help us understand why we’re stuck inside while there’s a virus out there making people sick. I hope it’s useful and you’re welcome to share it with others. A huge thank you to Matt for making this resource readily available. Available in English, Afrikaans, Xhosa and Zulu
Flashcards

isiZulu and English Wild Animals Flash Cards
Description
This PDF consists of 23 A4 flashcards of common wild animals. Each flash card includes the English and isiZulu word and a picture. Flash Cards can be used to teach and reinforce the vocabulary of wild animals in isiZulu. Flash Cards can be used for posters, games or cards for reading and speaking. The flash cards can be printed smaller by printing 2 or 4 on a page. The flash cards include: • Elephant (indlovu) • Lion (ibhubesi) • Buffalo (inyathi) • Cheetah (ingulule) • Snake (inyoka) • Leopard (ingwe) • Crocodile (uxamu) • Rhino (obhejane) • Zebra (idube) • Giraffe (indlulamithi) • Buck (inyamazane) • Baboon (indangala) • monkey(inkawu) • eagle (ukhozi) • spider (isicabucabu) • crab (inkalankala) • shark (ushaka) • frog (ixoxo) • turtle (ufudu iwamazi) • tortoise (ufudu) • octopus (ingwane) • whale (umkhomo)
Posters

IsiZulu Fruit & Vegetables Posters / Imifino, Izithelo
Description
This resource is made up of two posters. One is a fruit poster and the other is a vegetable poster. The posters have pictures of different fruits and vegetables on them with the isiZulu words for the fruits and vegetables under each picture. These resource can be used as part of the CAPS Grade R theme on Fruit and Vegetables. These posters can be printed A4 or A3. I would recommend laminating them for durability. These are great as a display poster up in the classroom or as a word mat for children to use. Please note that I do not speak isiZulu and all my isiZulu resources have come together from the work that I do for an N.P.O. I have spent many hours researching and finding words, phrases etc that can assist in creating much needed isiZulu resources.