Baseline Assessment (FAT0): Grade 5 English First Additional Language (FAL) – Term 1 (2026)

Baseline Assessment (FAT0): Grade 5 English First Additional Language (FAL) – Term 1 (2026)

Can be used as a baseline assessment or a formal assessment (marks align with ATP requirements)

Three sections: 

Section A: Reading comprehension: Short story – The ant and the grasshopper (10 marks)

Poem: The ant and the grasshopper (5 marks)

Section B: Visual Text: Comic strip (10 marks)

Section C: Language structures and conventions: Facts about grasshoppers (15 marks)

Total: 40 marks

Memorandum with marking matrix attached with Barret’s /Bloom’s Levels indicated.

Analysis of questions done per level.

Available in PDF and Word to make minor adjustments where needed.

Price: R50