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Grade 6 English HL Term 1-4 Atp 2021
Grade 6 English HL Term 1-4 Atp 2021
Grade 6 English HL Term 1-4 Atp 2021
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Standardised Baseline Assessment and Orientation to be conducted during the first 3 days of the term in Week 1 – Day 1 to 3. Data is captured so that competency is determined
and learning gaps identified. This information should be used to inform subsequent teaching and learning activities.
. Listens to radio or newspaper reports Reads newspaper articles from the Writes a newspaper article Word level work:
and discusses current issues textbook or from the TRF • Uses headline, by-line, lead Nouns (Include noun types from
• Introductory activities: prediction • Pre-reading activities; prediction paragraph, answers to Who, What, week 3-4): common and abstract
TERM 1 • Listens for specific details in radio and based on title and/or graphics Where, When and Why/How nouns
WEEK 2 television programmes • Identifies and discusses both • Writes a topic sentence and includes pronouns (personal & demonstrative)
• Identifies how stereotypes are created the intended and hidden cultural relevant information to develop a
• Asks critical questions that challenge messages coherent paragraph Sentence level work:
and seek alternative explanations • Uses different reading strategies in • Selects, classifies and categorises subject - verb agreement,
• Listens for information in a variety of oral order to understand what is being relevant information from different Simple Tenses (past, present, future
texts: reports, and summarises main ideas read: skimming, scanning, prediction sources
• Develops a balanced argument on • Discusses how the message can be • Plans, drafts and refines writing, Spelling and punctuation:
relevant and challenging issues manipulated • Reflects on and evaluates writing and word division, dictionary use,
• Expresses an opinion and supports it • Discusses how the techniques used creative work
with solid evidence by writers, graphic designers and • Writes neatly and legibly Punctuation: full stop, comma, colon,
• Listens actively and with sensitivity photographers construct particular semi-colon, question mark, exclamation
• Acknowledges opinions that conflict with views of the world Uses clear structure: mark
own and responds appropriately in the • Invents and describes preferred • Beginning
context results or endings • Middle
• Discusses the validity of information by • Hypothesises and offers alternatives • Ending
comparison with other sources when trying to solve a problem
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SKILLS LISTENING AND SPEAKING (ORAL) READING & VIEWING WRITING & PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES &
CONVENTIONS
Listens to and discusses a folklore, Reads a folklore, e.g. a myth or a Writes a folklore, e.g. a myth or Word level work:
e.g. a myth or a legend. legend from the textbook or from the legend Adjectives (descriptive & quantity)
• Introductory activities: prediction Teacher’s Resource File (TRF). • Writes for personal, exploratory, Degrees of comparison (adjectives)
• Recalls events in the correct • Pre-reading activities e.g. prediction playful, imaginative and creative
sequence and using the correct tense based on title and or graphics purposes Sentence level work:
• Interacts positively during group • Reading strategies: skimming, • Tries to teach a moral lesson Simple and complex sentences
discussions scanning, prediction, views different • Uses superhuman characters Sentence types (statements,
• Identifies how stereotypes are created visual texts, in order to interpret • Uses appropriate vocabulary questions, commands)
and their effects on the listener. • Discusses elements of fables, e.g. • Brainstorms ideas for a topic and
• Discusses characters characters and messages develops ideas Word meaning:
• Discusses plot, conflict and setting • Explains interpretation and overall • Expresses ideas clearly and logically Antonyms and synonyms
• Discusses messages in the text response to text • Reflects on and evaluates writing and
TERM 1 • Reflects cultural customs, values and • Invents and describes preferred creative work
WEEK 3-4 beliefs results or endings • Produces a first draft with awareness of
• Reflects on the struggle between • Uses a dictionary for vocabulary the central idea, and appropriate language
good and evil Development and conventions for the specific purpose
Summarises the text in 5 sentences and audience
Writing process
• Planning/pre-writing
• Drafting
• Revising
• Editing
• Proofreading
• Presenting
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SKILLS LISTENING AND SPEAKING (ORAL) READING & VIEWING WRITING & PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES &
CONVENTIONS
Listens to a persuasive text, e.g. Reads a persuasive text from Writes a persuasive text, e.g. a Word level work:
radio advertisement the textbook or from the Teacher’s speech/ advert Conjunctions
• Introductory activities: prediction Resource File (TRF). • Evokes emotional responses Articles
• Asks thought-provoking questions • Pre-reading activities, e.g. prediction • Makes promises
using appropriate language based on title and or graphics • Stirs the audience Sentence level work:
• Identifies opinions which differ from own • Uses different reading strategies in • Plans, drafts and refines writing Direct and indirect speech
• Contrasts opposing perspectives and order to understand what is being • Brainstorms ideas for a topic and
gives reasons read: skimming, scanning, prediction develops ideas Word meaning:
• Interacts positively during group • Identifies and critically discusses • Reflects on and evaluates writing and idioms and proverbs
discussions cultural and social values in texts creative work
• Shares ideas and offers opinions • Interprets the writer’s intentional and • Expresses ideas clearly and logically
on challenging topics in a logical, unintentional messages • Shows understanding of style and
coherent and structured way. • Identifies different perspectives within register
• Develops factual and reasonable more complex texts and gives own • Presents work with attention to
arguments to justify opinions. perspectives based on evidence neatness and enhanced presentation
• Contrasts opposing perspectives and within the text • Clearly and appropriately conveys
TERM 1 gives reasons • Discusses the diversity of social and Meaning
WEEK 5-6
• Focuses on description cultural values in texts • Writes a topic sentence and includes
• Uses a dictionary for vocabulary relevant information to develop a
Development coherent paragraph
• Draws conclusions and makes
Reads and understands graphic media recommendations
texts e.g. advertisement and posters • Invents and describes preferred
Pre-reading: discusses pictures results or endings
Interprets the information
Discusses the purpose of the text
Discusses the language used
Identifies and discusses design features
such as colour and font
Discusses the layout
Compares different texts e.g. poster and
advertisements
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SKILLS LISTENING AND SPEAKING (ORAL) READING & VIEWING WRITING & PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES &
CONVENTIONS
Listens to and discusses a dialogue Reads a simple play or drama from Writes a dialogue Word level work:
• Introductory activities: prediction the textbook, class reader or from the • Reveals characters and motivation Adverbs (manner, time)
• Listens for information in a variety of Teacher’s Resource File (TRF). • Establishes tone or mood
oral texts in a dialogue • Pre-reading activities: prediction • Creates or adds to existing conflict Spelling and punctuation: quotation
• Summarises main ideas, and notes based on title and or graphics • Produces a first draft with awareness of marks,
TERM 1 specific details • Explains themes, plot, setting, and the central idea
WEEK • Interacts positively during group characterisation • Shows understanding of style and Sentence level work:
7-8 discussions Summarises the text register Sentence types (statements,
• Identifies and discusses key features • Discusses author’s point of view. • Reflects on and evaluates writing and questions, commands)
• Discusses context, speaker’s body • Uses a dictionary for vocabulary creative work
language, content, register, and Development • Uses a variety of compound and Word meaning:
choice of words complex sentences synonyms, antonyms
• Discusses format of the text
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 3: RESPONSE TO TEXTS (50 marks)
Literary/Non- literary text (20 marks)
Visual text (10 marks)
Language Structures and Conventions (20 marks)
Activities for this task do not have to be written in one session
SKILLS LISTENING AND SPEAKING (ORAL) READING & VIEWING WRITING & PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES &
CONVENTIONS
Listens to and discusses a poem Reads a simple poem from the Writes a poem Word level work:
• Introductory activities: prediction textbook or from the Teacher’s • Uses alliteration, (consonance and Prepositions
• Expresses emotions in a sensitive Resource File (TRF). assonance), metaphor, simile Adverbs (manner, time)
way • Pre-reading activities, e.g. prediction • Uses descriptive language
• Interacts positively during group based on title and or graphics • Plans, drafts and refines writing, Sentence level work:
discussions • Reads aloud with appropriate tempo, • Produces a first draft with awareness of Reported speech
• Comments on sound and visual clear pronunciation, and proper phrasing the central idea
TERM 1 effects such as rhythm, repetition, • Adjusts the way in which a text is read to • Shows understanding of style and Word meaning:
WEEK alliteration, and comparisons suit the listener register Elements of poetry
9-10 • Interprets content of poem • Shows understanding of the text, its • Reflects on and evaluates writing and alliteration (consonance and
• Summarises the poem relationship to own life creative work assonance), metaphor, simile,
• Discusses rhythm and rhyme • Identifies and analyses the personification,
• Discusses different forms of poem characteristics of various writing Writing process
• Discusses structures of poems genres or text types, e.g. rhythm, • Planning/pre-writing
rhyme, personification, metaphor • Drafting
• Uses a dictionary for vocabulary • Revising
Development
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FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES
Listening and Speaking activities Reading and Viewing activities Writing and Presenting activities Language Structures and Conventions
Variety of Listening and Speaking Reading Process Writing Process activities
activities Reading aloud activities Paragraphing Variety of Language Structures and
Listening and Speaking activities that Reading Comprehension activities Transactional Texts Convention activities
comply with the Covid-19 conditions Literature activities based on the three Essay
prescribed genres for the semester Creative Writing
GRADE 6 ENG HL SUMMARY OF FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASKS: TERM 1
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 1 ORAL FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 2: FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 3: RESPONSE TO TEXTS (50 marks)
Read aloud (20 marks) WRITING Literary/Non- literary text (20 marks)
Essay (20 marks) Visual text (10 marks)
Commence with this task in term 1 and Descriptive / narrative (5 paragraphs) Language Structures and Conventions (20 marks)
conclude in term 2 when the mark will be During the term Activities for this task do not have to be written in one session
recorded.
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GRADE 6 TERM 2
SKILLS LISTENING AND SPEAKING (ORAL) READING & VIEWING WRITING & PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES &
CONVENTIONS
. Listens to and discusses an Reads a recipe or other instructional Writes an instructional text, e.g. on Word level work:
instructional text, e.g. recipe, text how to make a cup of tea Pronouns (possessive & reflexive)
directions • Analyses the characteristics of the • Orders logically stems, prefixes, suffixes
TERM 2 • Introductory activities: prediction text: organisation and conventions of • Lists materials and ingredients
WEEK 1-2 • Recalls procedure instructional texts • Uses dictionaries Sentence level work:
• Identifies the features of instructional text • Orders jumbled instructions • Uses imperatives subject, object
• Notes key headings • Uses appropriate reading and • Develops a frame for writing
• Gives clear instructions, e.g. on how to comprehension strategies: scanning • Uses linking phrases and Spelling and punctuation: word
make a cup of tea • Shows understanding of the text and organisational methods division, dictionary use
• Makes notes and applies instructions how it functions: literal reading • Defines procedures
read • Recognises and explains the different • Organises words and sentences
• Asks questions to clarify structures, language use and purposes Appropriately
Comments on clarity of instructions • Identifies and evaluates register of a text
• Understands and uses information Uses the writing process
texts appropriately • Planning / pre-writing,
• Compares two different recipes or • Drafting,
Instructions • Revising,
Interprets visuals/ Answers questions • Editing,
about the visuals • Proofreading, and
• Presenting
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SKILLS LISTENING AND SPEAKING (ORAL) READING & VIEWING WRITING & PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES &
CONVENTIONS
Listens to a novel Reads a short novel Writes a book review Word level work:
Text from the textbook or Teacher’s Text from the textbook or Teacher’s • Uses a frame * verbs (finite, infinitives)
Resource File (TRF) Resource File (TRF) • Pre-writing: listens to extracts from a * regular and irregular verbs
• Introductory activities: prediction • Pre-reading: predicts from title and read novel
• Listen to extracts from the novel discusses related themes/content • Selects content appropriate for the Sentence level work:
• Listens for specific details • Identifies and explains the central purpose verb phrases & clauses
• Identifies the main message events • Uses appropriate language and text
• Relates to own life • Identifies and discusses point of view structure Spelling and punctuation:
• Discusses the main ideas and specific • Discusses the characters • Uses the correct format dictionary use
detail • Identifies and discusses feelings • Organises content logically - uses Punctuation (exclamation mark,
• Uses information from the text in expressed chronology question mark; full stop)
response • Relates events and characters to own • Uses appropriate grammar, spelling Spelling rules (plurals)
• Discusses the social, moral and life and punctuation, including subject verb
cultural values in the text • Uses a range of reading strategies concord
• Discusses the structure, language • Uses a dictionary for spelling and
Participates in group discussion use, purpose and audience vocabulary development
• Takes turns to turn • Identifies the difference/s between
• Stays on topic biographies/diaries and stories Uses the writing process
• Asks relevant questions • Uses a dictionary for vocabulary • Planning / pre-writing,
TERM 2 • Maintains discussion Development • Drafting,
WEEK 3-4 • Revising,
Responds to others’ ideas with Reflects on texts read independently • Editing,
empathy and respect • Retells story or main ideas in 3 to 5 • Proofreading, and
sentences (summarizes) • Presenting
• Expresses emotional response to
texts read.
• Relates to own life experiences
• Compares books/texts read
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SKILLS LISTENING AND SPEAKING (ORAL) READING & VIEWING WRITING & PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES &
CONVENTIONS
Listens to and discusses a story Reads a story from the textbook or Writes a story Word level work:
• Introductory activities: prediction from the Teacher’s Resource File (TRF) or • Creates believable characters auxiliary verbs
• Identifies themes, asks questions, and class reader. • Shows knowledge of character, plot, determiners
relates ideas to own life experiences • Pre-reading activities: prediction setting, conflict, climax
• Identifies and discusses how based on title and or graphics • Plots main events using a flow chart Sentence level work:
stereotypes are created • Reads aloud and silently, adjusting – beginning (exposition), middle present, past, future continuous
• Discusses response to text reading strategies to suit the purpose (rising action, climax) and ending tense
TERM 2 • Links to own life and audience (denouement)
WEEK 5-6 • Discusses social, moral and cultural • Discusses social and cultural values • Orders logically Word meaning: idioms
values in different texts and comments on in texts • Expresses ideas clearly and logically
how these are conveyed in the text, e.g. • Interprets and discusses message • Uses a theme or message
stereotyping. • Shows understanding of the text, its
• Uses presentation skills, e.g. volume, relationship to own life, its purpose
pace, pausing, posture, gesture etc. and how it functions
Summarises the text in 3 – 5 sentences
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SKILLS LISTENING AND SPEAKING (ORAL) READING & VIEWING WRITING & PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES &
CONVENTIONS
Listens to and discusses an Reads an information text e.g. Writes an information text e.g. a Word level work:
information text e.g. a weather report weather report from newspaper, a weather chart adjectives (attributive,
Text from the textbook or Teacher’s textbook or Teacher’s Resource File • Selects appropriate visuals and interrogative, demonstrative)
Resource File (TRF) (TRF) content for the purpose
• Introductory activities: prediction • Pre-reading: predicting from title, • Presents information using a map, Sentence level work:
• Listens for specific details headings and pictures chart, graph or diagram. Noun phrases & clauses
• Discusses usefulness of the • Uses reading strategies: skims to get the
information general idea, scans for specific details Writing process
• Links information to own life • Identifies the way the text is organised • Planning/pre-writing Spelling and punctuation:
• Discusses possible effects on people • Compares differences and similarities in • Drafting dictionary usage
TERM 2 • Compares conditions in different different places • Revising Homophones
WEEK 7-8 places, indicates preferred • Reads an information text with visuals • Editing
destinations with reasons e.g. map • Proofreading
• Participates in discussions, justifying • Uses reading strategies, e.g. makes • Presenting
own opinion predictions and uses textual and
• Identifies features of weather reports: contextual clues
register and the nature of language used • Interprets visuals
• Uses interaction strategies to • Uses a dictionary for vocabulary
communicate effectively in group development
situations
• Interprets and discusses more
complex visual texts
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FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES
Listening and Speaking activities Reading and Viewing activities Writing and Presenting activities Language Structures and Conventions
Variety of Listening and Speaking Reading Process Writing Process activities
activities Reading aloud activities Paragraphing Variety of Language Structures and
Listening and Speaking activities Reading Comprehension activities Transactional Texts Convention activities
that comply with the Covid-19 Literature activities based on the Essay
conditions three prescribed genres for the Creative Writing
semester
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GRADE 6 TERM 3
SKILLS LISTENING AND SPEAKING (ORAL) READING & VIEWING WRITING & PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES &
CONVENTIONS
Discusses a novel Reads a novel Writes a book review Word level work:
Text from the textbook or Teacher’s Text from the textbook or Teacher’s • Uses a frame interrogative, demonstrative,
Resource File (TRF) Resource File (TRF) • Pre-writing: listens to extracts from a indefinite pronouns
. • Introductory activities: prediction • Pre-reading: predicts from title and read novel
• Listening to read novel extract discusses related themes/content • Selects content appropriate for the Sentence level work:
• Predicts what is going to happen • Identifies and explains the central purpose simple present, past, future tense
TERM 3 • Explains author and reader’s point of idea • Uses appropriate language and text
WEEK 1-2 view • Discusses the characters structure Spelling and punctuation:
• Stays on topic • Identifies and discusses feelings • Uses the correct format dictionary usage, word division
• Explains logically expressed • Organises content logically - uses synonyms & antonyms
• Discusses main ideas and specific • Discusses suspense and twist chronology
details • Relates events and characters to • Uses appropriate grammar, spelling
• Asks relevant questions and responds own life and punctuation, including subject verb
appropriately • Uses a range of reading strategies concord
• Discusses the structure, language • Uses a dictionary for spelling and
use, purpose and audience vocabulary development
• Uses a dictionary for vocabulary
development Uses the writing process
• Planning / pre-writing,
Reflects on texts read independently • Drafting,
• Retells story or main ideas in 3 to 5 • Revising,
sentences • Editing,
• Expresses emotional response to • Proofreading, and
texts read. • Presenting
• Relates to own life
• Compares books/texts read
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SKILLS LISTENING AND SPEAKING (ORAL) READING & VIEWING WRITING & PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES &
CONVENTIONS
Listens to and discusses a folklore, Reads a folklore, e.g. a myth or a Writes a character sketch Word level work:
e.g. a myth or a legend, legend from the textbook or from the • Thinks about characterisation Adjectives (builds on use of
• Introductory activities: prediction Teacher’s Resource File (TRF). • Uses descriptive words to compare adjectives)
• Recalls events in the correct • Pre-reading activities e.g. prediction characters verbs (gerunds)
sequence and using the correct tense based on title and or graphics • Plans, drafts and refines writing,
• Interacts positively during group • Uses reading strategies: skimming, focusing on improving spelling, tenses and Sentence level work:
discussions scanning, prediction, views visuals in linking sentences into cohesive Active & passive voice
• Listening: order to interpret paragraphs Negative form
• Identifies how stereotypes are created • Discusses elements of fables, e.g. • Shows understanding of setting, plot,
TERM 3
and their effects on the listener. characters and messages conflict and theme. Spelling and punctuation:
WEEK 3-4
• Discusses characters • Explains interpretation and overall • Correct use of tenses Punctuation (contractions)
• Discusses plot, conflict and setting response to text
• Discusses messages in the text • Invents and describes preferred Uses the writing process
• Reflects cultural customs, values and results or endings • Planning / pre-writing,
beliefs Summarises the text in 3 - 5 sentences • Drafting,
• Reflects on the struggle between • Revising,
good and evil • Editing,
• Proofreading, and
• Presenting
SKILLS LISTENING AND SPEAKING (ORAL) READING & VIEWING WRITING & PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES &
CONVENTIONS
Listens to a short story Reads a short story from the textbook, Writes a friendly letter/A diary entry Word level work:
• Introductory activities: prediction class reader or from the Teacher’s • Uses correct layout connecting words
• Recalls events in the correct Resource File (TRF). • Shows awareness of audience and Word meaning:
sequence and using the correct tense • Pre-reading activities: prediction style ambiguity, multiple meaning
• Interacts positively during group based on title and or graphics • Uses appropriate tone
discussions • Examines the text for hidden • Plans, drafts and refines writing, Sentence level work: past perfect
• Identifies how stereotypes are created messages and summarizes the main focusing on improving language, tense; future perfect tense
and their effects on the listener. and supporting ideas spelling, tenses and linking sentences
TERM 3
• Discusses characters • Explains how the writer manipulates into cohesive paragraphs Spelling and punctuation:
WEEK 5-6
• Discusses plot, conflict and setting the reader’s perceptions: the • Uses connecting words, e.g. word division (syllables)
• Discusses messages in the text techniques used, characterisation ‘however’, synonyms and antonyms Homophones
• Critically discusses cultural and social to link sentences into cohesive
values in text paragraphs
• Discusses plot, theme, setting and • Uses correct spelling and punctuation
characterisation
• Uses a dictionary for vocabulary
Development
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SKILLS LISTENING AND SPEAKING (ORAL) READING & VIEWING WRITING & PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES &
CONVENTIONS
Listens or view audio/visual /read Reads a cartoon / comic strips from Writes a cartoon / comic script Word level work: verbs (participle),
text: cartoon / comic strips the textbook or from the Teacher’s • Uses a frame moods, adverbs, adjectives
• Introductory activities: prediction Resource File (TRF). • Defines the concept
• Views and discusses content and • Follows short printed instructions • Outlines the script Sentence level work: active voice,
messages of the text and interprets them and explains • Uses correct format passive voice, direct and indirect
• Discusses appropriateness of the simple visual text: graphs, diagrams, • Uses interesting main and supporting speech
graphics to the text graphics characters
• Discusses the effectiveness of the • Examines the text for hidden • Uses effective plot and conflict Spelling and punctuation: dictionary
graphics and music messages and summarises the main • Writes and designs visual texts using use, word division
• Shares ideas on the title and the text and supporting ideas language, pictures and sound effects
TERM 3 • Discusses any new words vital to the • Explains how the writer manipulates the creatively, e.g. an advertisement for
WEEK 7-8 understanding of the programme reader’s perceptions: the techniques used, television
• Discusses main characters and the characterisation
underlying message • Critically discusses cultural and social Uses the Writing process:
• Identifies and discusses how values in text • Planning/pre-writing
perceptions are influenced by the • Identifies different perspectives and • Drafting
content, choice of words and the gives own perspective based on • Revising
speaker’s body language evidence in the text • Editing
• Interprets and analyses details in • Proofreading
graphical texts • Presenting
• Transfers detail from one form to
Another
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GRADE 6 TERM 3
LANGUAGE STRUCTURES &
SKILLS LISTENING AND SPEAKING (ORAL) READING & VIEWING WRITING & PRESENTING CONVENTIONS
WEEK 4-8 Project based on any ONE of the literature genres studied: poems / folktales / short stories / drama / novel. Note: There must be a variation of genres across the grades.
Planning / Preparation/ Research/ Investigation of oral presentation and creative writing of project.
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 6: CREATIVE WRITING PROJECT (40 MARKS) FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 7: CREATIVE WRITING PROJECT (20 MARKS)
Stage 1: Research (Learners do research on their project) Stage 3: Oral presentation (Learners do the Oral presentation of their project)
(10 marks) (20 marks)
Week 4 - 5 Oral presentation:
Uses appropriate structure: introduction, body and conclusion
Stage 2: Writing (Learners engage in the write-up of their project) Presents central idea and supporting details
(30 marks) Shows evidence of research/ investigation
Planning/pre-writing of the creative writing project Uses appropriate body language and presentation skills, e.g. makes eye contact,
Drafting volume
Revising Participates in a discussion
Editing Gives constructive feedback
Proofreading Maintains discussion
Presenting Shows sensitivity to the rights and feelings of others
Week 6
Commence with the oral task in term 3 and conclude in term 4 when the mark will be
recorded.
SKILLS LISTENING AND SPEAKING (ORAL) READING & VIEWING WRITING & PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES &
CONVENTIONS
Listens to and discusses drama Reads reviews of play/drama Writes a dialogue / a short play script Word level work:
• Introductory activities: prediction • Pre-reading activities, e.g. prediction • Uses characterisation stems, prefixes, suffixes
• Discusses key feature of the text. based on title and or graphics • Uses correct layout
• Identifies how stereotypes are created • Uses different reading strategies e.g. • Establishes tone or mood Sentence level work:
and how this affects the listener skimming, scanning to identify main and • Shows an understanding of style and active voice, passive voice
• Identifies themes, asks questions supporting ideas register interrogative form
TERM 3 • Identifies and discusses values in the • Critically discusses cultural and social
WEEK 9-10 text values in text Uses the writing process Spelling and punctuation:
• Links content and messages in the • Identifies different perspectives and • Planning/pre-writing colon, semi-colon
text to own life gives own perspective based on • Drafting
• Gives critical comment on messages evidence in the text • Revising
in the text • Editing
• Proofreading
• Presenting
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FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES
Listening and Speaking activities Reading and Viewing activities Writing and Presenting activities Language Structures and Conventions
Variety of Listening and Speaking Reading Process Writing Process activities
activities Reading aloud activities Paragraphing Variety of Language Structures
Listening and Speaking activities Reading Comprehension activities Transactional Texts and Convention activities
that comply with the Covid-19 Literature activities based on the Essay
conditions three prescribed genres for the Creative Writing
semester
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GRADE 6 TERM 4
SKILLS LISTENING AND SPEAKING (ORAL) READING & VIEWING WRITING & PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES &
CONVENTIONS
Listens to and discusses an Reads an instructional text e.g. Writes an instructional text Word level work: adverbs of manner,
instructional text, e.g. recipe, recipe, direction • Orders logically time, place, degree, duration and
directions • Analyses the characteristics of the • Lists materials and ingredients frequency
• Introductory activities: prediction text: organisation and conventions of • Uses dictionaries
• Recalls procedure instructional texts • Uses imperatives Sentence level work: compound
• Identifies the features of instructional text • Orders jumbled instructions • Develops a frame for writing sentences, complex sentences
• Notes key headings • Uses appropriate reading and • Uses linking phrases and
comprehension strategies: scanning organisational methods
TERM 4
Gives clear instructions, e.g. on how • Shows understanding of the text and • Defines procedures
WEEK 1-2
to make a cup of tea how it functions: literal reading • Organises words and sentences
• Makes notes and applies instructions • Recognises and explains the different appropriately
read structures, language use and purposes
• Asks questions to clarify • Identifies and evaluates register of a text
• Comments on clarity of instructions • Understands and uses information
texts appropriately
• Compares two different recipes or
Instructions
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 7:
Oral Presentation (20 marks)
This task is a continuation from Term 3. It will be completed and recorded in Term 4.
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SKILLS LISTENING AND SPEAKING (ORAL) READING & VIEWING WRITING & PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES &
CONVENTIONS
Listens to a Story Reads a Story Writes a short summary Sentence level work: noun phrases
• Introductory activities: prediction • Pre-reading activities, e.g. prediction • Writes a short summary and clauses
• Responds critically by identifying the key based on title and or graphics • Plots main events using a flow chart
elements of a book review • Uses different reading strategies e.g. • Orders logically Sentence level work: verb phrases
• Recalls main ideas and details from skimming, scanning • Expresses ideas clearly and logically and clauses
a text • Identifies main and supporting ideas • Reflects on emotional response
• Interprets and discusses message • Makes recommendations Word meaning: pun, understatement,
Role play interview in class • Comments on storyline multiple meaning, ambiguity
TERM 4 • Makes an oral presentation facing the • Comments on response to the text Use the writing process
WEEK 3-4 audience • Comments on values • Planning/pre-writing Spelling and punctuation: colon,
• Shows an awareness of different • Comments on messages in the text • Drafting semi-colon, contraction, question mark
audiences • Invents and describes preferred • Revising
• Varies the volume, tone and tempo of results or endings • Editing
voice • Proofreading
• Reflects on own, and others’ • Presenting
presentations and skills, sensitively
• Gives balanced and constructive
feedback
SKILLS LISTENING AND SPEAKING (ORAL) READING & VIEWING WRITING & PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES &
CONVENTIONS
Listens to and discusses poems Reads a poem Writes a poem Sentence level work: subject; object
• Introductory activities: prediction • Uses alliteration, metaphor,
• Listens for information and • Pre-reading activities, e.g. prediction onomatopoeia, simile, symbol, theme Word meaning: similes, metaphors,
summarises main ideas, and notes based on title and or graphics • Reflects on and evaluates writing and personification, simile, onomatopoeia,
specific details • Uses different reading strategies e.g. creative work symbol
• Discusses social, moral and cultural skimming, scanning • Develops and organises ideas
values in the text • Responds critically to poems through a writing process direct and indirect speech
TERM 4
• Comments on how values and • Comments on the use of alliteration,
WEEK 5-6
messages are conveyed in the text repetition, simile and onomatopoeia Use the writing process
• Sensitively gives balanced and • Reads and responds critically to • Planning/pre-writing Spelling and punctuation:
constructive feedback poetry • Drafting Parentheses
• Interprets and discusses message • Revising
• Shows understanding of the poem • Editing
and its relationship to own life • Proofreading
• Presenting
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 8:
Transactional writing: (10 marks)
Written before the controlled test
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SKILLS LISTENING AND SPEAKING (ORAL) READING & VIEWING WRITING & PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES &
CONVENTIONS
TERM 1 Revision Revision Revision Revision
WEEK
7-8
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