This is the Grade 3 isiXhosa Home Language (HL) revised teaching plan, written in isiXhosa. The two files cover Term 3 and Term 4 and plan listening and speaking, phonics, reading, writing and handwriting week by week, ending with revision in week 10.
Each term runs over 10 weeks with set times per skill: Listening and Speaking 3 to 4 x 15 minutes a week, Phonics 4 to 5 x 15 minutes a week, Shared Reading about 1 hour a week, Group Guided Reading 2 hours 30 minutes a week, Writing 3 x 20 minutes a week and Handwriting 4 x 15 minutes a week. Assessment is continuous and uses the Abridged Section 4.
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What the isiXhosa HL Grade 3 ATP covers
Term 3
- Oral news and personal experiences in sequence
- Interviewing people, story with beginning, middle and end
- Spelling and homonyms
- Reading poems, plays and big books
- Graphical texts and dictionary use
- Writing a diary, a letter to a friend, a description
- Drafting a story of two paragraphs, using conjunctions
- Moving to joined (cursive) handwriting
Term 4
- Grammar terms when discussing texts
- Jokes, riddles and telling stories
- Oral presentation with visual aids
- Splitting long words into syllables
- Prefixes, suffixes, synonyms and antonyms
- Reading fiction, non-fiction, newspapers and dialogues
- Writing a dialogue, short newspaper article and recipe
- Apostrophes in contractions and punctuation
Source: Department of Basic Education, 2023/24 Annual Teaching Plans. DBE Circular S19 of 2025 keeps the 2023/24 ATPs in use, with some exclusions, so check with your school or district for any changes.