This is the Grade 4 isiXhosa Home Language Annual Teaching Plan for 2023/24 from the DBE. It sets out the work for each term in listening and speaking, reading and viewing, writing and presenting, and language structures and conventions. Over the year learners work with information texts, a novel, short stories, instructions, poems, weather reports, dialogues, folktales, a creative writing project, advertisements, drama and newspaper articles.
Each term has 10 weeks planned in two-week cycles across the four skill areas, with 30 minutes of reading for enjoyment each day. Term 1 starts with a baseline assessment in the first three days.
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What the isiXhosa HL Grade 4 ATP covers
Term 1
- Baseline assessment in week 1
- Information texts, e.g. a poster for an event
- Summarising an information text
- Novel extracts, writing about the main character
- Listening to, reading and writing a short story
- Instructions, e.g. making a cup of tea
- Designing a poster for an event
- Language structures and the writing process
Formal assessment: Task 1: Oral, reading aloud (20 marks). Task 2: Essay, descriptive or narrative, 3 paragraphs (20 marks). Task 3: Response to texts (40 marks): comprehension, visual text, language structures.
Term 2
- Listening to and reading a poem or song
- Writing a poem or song
- Weather reports and summarising
- Listening to and reading a dialogue
- Writing an interview
- Following and giving instructions
- Essay on why instructions matter
- Tenses, direct speech, idioms
Formal assessment: Task 1: Oral, reading aloud (20 marks). Task 4: Transactional text (10 marks). Task 5: June test (40 marks): comprehension, visual text, summary, language structures.
Term 3
- Folktales (intsomi): listening, reading, retelling
- Writing a folktale with a frame
- Creative writing project: research
- Project writing and list of sources
- Poems and rhyming sentences
- Advertisements
- Writing an advertisement
Formal assessment: Task 6: Creative writing project (40 marks): research (10) and writing (30). Task 7: Oral presentation of the project (20 marks).
Term 4
- Listening to and reading a short story
- Writing a short story
- Listening to and reading a drama
- Writing a dialogue
- Newspaper articles and current issues
- Summarising a newspaper report
- Formal oral assessment
Formal assessment: Task 7: Oral presentation (20 marks). Task 8: Transactional text (10 marks). Task 9: End of year test (40 marks): comprehension, visual text, summary, language structures.
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.