This is the Grade 4 Sepedi Home Language Annual Teaching Plan for 2023/24 from the DBE. It sets out what learners do 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, poems, instructions, short stories, folktales, drama, a creative writing project, advertisements and newspaper articles.
Each term has 10 weeks planned in two-week cycles across the four skill areas, with at least 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 Sepedi HL Grade 4 ATP covers
Term 1
- Baseline assessment in week 1
- Information texts: posters, charts, mind maps
- Writing a summary
- Novel extract and describing a main character
- Poems and songs, rhyme and rhythm
- Instructions, e.g. a recipe
- Making a poster for an event
- Nouns, adjectives, verbs, punctuation
Formal assessment: Task 1: Oral, reading aloud (20 marks), started in Term 1 and recorded in Term 2. Task 2: Essay, narrative or descriptive (20 marks). Task 3: Response to texts (40 marks): comprehension, visual text, language structures.
Term 2
- Listening to and reading a short story
- Writing a story from own experience
- Weather reports and information texts
- Summarising weather conditions
- Reading a drama, writing an interview
- Book review of the novel
- Reading and writing instructions
- Tenses, direct speech, punctuation
Formal assessment: Task 1: Reading aloud completed and recorded (20 marks). Task 4: Transactional text (10 marks) before the mid-year test. Task 5: Test (40 marks): comprehension, visual text, summary, language structures.
Term 3
- Folktales: listening, reading, retelling
- Creative writing project: research
- Project writing using the writing process
- Poems: rhythm, rhyme, sound repetition
- Writing rhyming lines
- Radio or TV advertisements
- Writing an advertisement
- Conjunctions, adverbs, figures of speech
Formal assessment: Task 6: Creative writing project (40 marks): research (10) and writing (30), based on a poem, folktale, drama or short story. Task 7: Oral presentation of the project (20 marks), started in Term 3 and completed in Term 4.
Term 4
- Listening to and reading a short story
- Writing diary entries
- Reading a drama, writing a dialogue
- Newspaper articles and current issues
- Prepared speech
- Summarising a newspaper report
- Formal oral assessment
- Adjectives, verbs, tenses, punctuation
Formal assessment: Task 7: Oral presentation (20 marks) completed. Task 8: Transactional writing (10 marks) before the final test. Task 9: Response to texts (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.