Planning


Oxford Successful Englishhas been carefully planned and structured to cover the content, skills and strategies given in the CAPS teaching plans and provide further material for extension and enrichment. Firstly, this Teacher’s Guide provides a range of


Planning tools to help you plan your year. The following tools can be found in Section 2 of this Teacher’s Guide (Planning tools):


• overview plan for the year • detailed teaching plan for each two-week cycle • plan for the Formal Programme of Assessment • example teaching plan for one week. In Section 4 of this Teacher’s Guide, detailed teaching plans are provided for each unit. Each unit starts with an overview of the suggested teachings plans for the two-week cycle. A weekly plan for each teaching week of the year with suggestions about how much time to spend on each activity as per the CAPS requirements is then provided. However, there is also some flexibility, as not all classes will work at exactly the same pace. Your timetable may allow for a double period every week and this would be ideal for teaching Reading or for longer writing activities. You can also break up activities into several shorter lessons.


Term 1 Resources


Additional resources Listening and speaking


Week 5


Learner’s Book pp. 28–33 Teacher’s Guide pp. 173–177 Reading Book pp. 19–21


Library books with adventure stories


Listens to an adventure story • Summarises the story with support • Understands and uses questions


• Recalls experiences and events in the right sequence


Daily activities: • Discusses a topic


Reading and viewing


Reads an adventure story • Pre-reading: predicts from title and pictures


• Uses reading strategies: makes predictions and uses context to work out the meaning of new words


• Discusses new vocabulary from the read text • Answers questions on the text


• Identifies title, setting and plot Does comprehension activity on the text


Independent/pair reading – A fantasy story: One of a kind (part 1) (RB pp. 19–21) Reflects on texts read during independent/pair reading


• Expresses own opinion Writing and presenting


Writes paragraphs about a story • Writes about the theme of the story


• Uses appropriate grammar, spelling, punctuation and spaces between paragraphs


• Uses the writing process 9


Writes a diary • Uses the frame correctly • Uses an informal style • Selects appropriate content for the topic • Tells the events in the correct order • Uses connecting words


Independent/pair reading – A fantasy story: One of a kind (part 2) (RB pp. 22–25) Reflects on texts read during independent/pair reading


Practises reading


• Reads aloud with appropriate pronunciation, fluency, pacing and expression


Reads a diary • Discusses main ideas and specific details • Identifies features, e.g. format and salutation


For example, additional activities (also in the Reading Book) are provided for learners who complete their work early. Also provided is a list of key vocabulary at the beginning of each weekly plan for easy reference. A summary overview of each two-week cycle is


provided at the beginning of each unit in the teaching guidelines of the Teacher’s Guide. The extract below from the summary overview shows the information that is provided:


• list of resources that you will need for each week


• information about the activities that develop skills –these activities correspond to the skills listed in the CAPS


• information about the texts that can be used from the Reading Book


• a summary of the formal and informal assessment activities in the two-week cycle


• links to other subjects in the Intermediate Phase


• information about inclusivity which relates to specific activities in the cycle.


Below is a short extract from the unit overview of Unit 3. You will clearly see how the overview shows coverage of CAPS for the cycle. On the next page the full overview for Unit 3 is shown.


Unit overview Week 6


Learner’s Book pp. 34–37 Reading Book pp. 22–25


Library books with diaries


Takes part in a discussion Daily activities:


• Performs a poem


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