SECTION 2 Planning and assessment Types of planning tools


Each CAPS provides: • An overview of topics for its subject. The overview of topics for Grade 5 Life Skills is shown below.


• A teaching plan for Life Skills. These are shown below.


Teaching plan for Oxford Successful Life Skills Grade 5


This teaching plan shows: • the pacing of the topics for the course by term • where to find the relevant content and activities in the Learner’s Book • when Formal Assessment takes place, cross-referenced to suitable activities in the Learner’s Book.


This teaching plan follows the time allocations as set out in the CAPS for Life Skills. It assumes three hours of teaching per week.


Term 1 Topic Personal and Social Well-being


Positive self-concept formation y Influence of others on self-concept: adults and peers y Personal successes as contributing factors to positive self- concept


y Action plan for continued positive self-concept formation y Reading skills: reading with understanding and using a dictionary y Reading about activities and/ or actions that build positive self-concept: recall and relate


Giving and receiving feedback: giving feedback to peers and receiving feedback from peers and adults y Appropriate ways of giving feedback: positive and negative feedback


y Appropriate ways of receiving negative and positive feedback Reading skills: reading with understanding and using a dictionary y Reading about appropriate ways of giving and receiving feedback: recall and relate


14 Section 2: Planning and assessment


Learner’s Book


Activities and


Assessment Module 1, page 7


Unit 1 Pages 8 – 10


1, 2


Unit 2 Pages 11 – 13


3, 4


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