This is the Grade 5 Sepedi First Additional 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, SMS and email, a novel, folktales, newspaper articles, instructions, poems, weather reports, plays, reports, a creative writing project and advertisements.
Each term has 10 weeks planned in two-week cycles across the four skill areas. Term 1 starts with a baseline assessment in the first three days.
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What the Sepedi FAL Grade 5 ATP covers
Term 1
- Baseline assessment in week 1
- Information texts, writing 3 to 4 paragraphs
- Social texts: writing an SMS or email
- Reading a novel, writing a book review
- Listening to and writing a folktale
- Reading and writing a newspaper article
- Instructions, e.g. making a sandwich
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, reading and writing a poem
- Weather reports and writing one
- Listening to and reading a play
- Writing a play script or dialogue
- Information texts with pictures and maps
- Writing a report
Formal assessment: Task 1: Reading aloud completed (20 marks). Task 4: Transactional text (10 marks). Task 5: Test (40 marks): comprehension, visual text, summary, language structures.
Term 3
- Folktales: listening and reading
- Writing a description of characters
- Creative writing project: research
- Project writing using the writing process
- Listening to and reading an advertisement
- Writing an advertisement
- Listening to a play
- Direct and indirect speech
Formal assessment: Task 6: Creative writing project (40 marks): research (10) and writing (30). Task 7: Oral presentation of the project (20 marks), prepared for Term 4.
Term 4
- Listening to and writing a folktale
- Listening to news and current issues
- Writing a report using a frame
- Information texts with pictures and maps
- Writing 3 to 4 information paragraphs
- Formal oral presentation
Formal assessment: Task 7: Oral (20 marks). Task 8: Transactional text (10 marks). 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.