Unit 3 Overview with annotations Unit overview


Resources for each week


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


Activities to develop skills – as per CAPS


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


Text to be used for the Reading Book


Writing and presenting


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


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


Language structures and conventions


Working with words and sentences


• Understands and uses verbs to describe actions


• Builds on use of prepositions that show position (focus lesson)


Vocabulary and spelling


• Uses knowledge of alphabetical order and first letters of a word to find a word in a dictionary


• Words starting with g– and followed by –e,–i or –y: start with g– even though it sounds like j


Summary of formal and informal assessment activities


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


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


Working with words and sentences • Uses question forms (focus lesson)


• Uses capital letters for proper nouns, for titles and initials of people


• Builds on use of personal pronouns • Uses connecting words to show addition and sequence


Vocabulary and spelling


• Words taken from shared or individually read texts


• Homonyms


• Spells familiar words correctly, using a personal dictionary


Links to other subjects in the Intermediate Phase


Inclusivity Values


Formal assessment: Formal Assessment Task 1 (Weeks 5–6) Listening and speaking: listens to and speaks about a story (Activity 1) Reading and viewing: comprehension of a story (Activity 2); reading aloud (Activity 7); reading comprehension of a diary (Activity 9): reflects on stories read independently (RB pp. 19–21) Writing and presenting: paragraphs on the theme of a story (Activity 5) Language structures and conventions: action verbs, modal verbs, adverbs of time (Activity 2); prepositions, past tense verbs (Activity 9) Informal assessment: Listening and speaking: takes part in a group discussion (Activity 6) Reading and viewing: reads a story (RB pp. 22–25) Writing and presenting: diary writing (Activity 10) Language structures and conventions: prepositions (Activity 4)


Links with other subjects: Life Skills: In Activity 5 learners write about safety rules. Inclusivity: You will be assessing listening and speaking in this unit, so make sure that all your learners are assessed fairly. If you have any learners who have hearing difficulties, you will need to make special arrangements for them, such as assessing them separately so that you can speak extra slowly and clearly to support them.


Values: Valuing indigenous knowledge systems: Learners are challenged to find out about traditional medicines made from plants growing in their environment.


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


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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