This is the Annual Teaching Plan for Grade 5 Sepedi Home Language. The year covers listening and speaking, reading and viewing, writing and presenting, and language structures and conventions, using text types such as folktales, a novel, poems, drama, newspaper articles, reports and instructions.
Each term has 10 weeks, planned in two-week cycles across four skill areas: Listening and speaking, Reading and viewing, Writing and presenting, and Language structures and conventions. Learners also read for enjoyment for at least 30 minutes a day and keep a personal dictionary.
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What the Sepedi HL Grade 5 ATP covers
Term 1
- Baseline assessment in the first week
- Information texts, sms and email
- Listening to and reading a novel
- Writing a book review
- Reading and writing a folktale (nonwane)
- Reading and writing a newspaper article
- Reading and writing instructions
- Verbs, tenses, nouns, adjectives and adverbs
Formal assessment: Task 1: oral, reading aloud (20), started in Term 1 and completed in Term 2. Task 2: essay, narrative or descriptive (20). Task 3: response to texts (40): comprehension, visual text, summary and language.
Term 2
- Listening to and reading a poem
- Writing a poem
- Reading and writing a weather report
- Reading a drama and writing a dialogue
- Reading information texts with visuals
- Writing a report
- Conjunctions, pronouns and sentence types
- Spelling and punctuation
Formal assessment: Task 1: reading aloud (20), completed. Task 4: transactional texts (10). Task 5: test, response to texts (40): comprehension, visual text, summary and language.
Term 3
- Listening to and reading a folktale
- Writing a descriptive paragraph about characters
- Creative writing project, stage 1: research
- Project stage 2: writing
- Reading and writing an advertisement
- Reading a drama and writing a dialogue
- Direct and indirect speech
- Adverbs, phrases and sentence types
Formal assessment: Task 6: creative writing project on a poem, drama or short story, research (10) and writing (30), total 40. Task 7: oral presentation of the project (20), started in Term 3 and completed in Term 4.
Term 4
- Listening to and reading a folktale
- Writing a folktale
- Listening to and writing a report
- Reading and writing an information text
- Noun, adjective and adverb phrases
- Synonyms, antonyms and homonyms
- Revision for the examination
Formal assessment: Task 7: oral presentation (20), completed. Task 8: transactional text (10), written before the examination. Task 9: response to texts (40): comprehension, visual text, summary and language.
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.