English Comprehensive Workbook 1: Grade 5 Home Language or First Additional – Term 2 Week 1-2 Poetry (2025)

English Comprehensive Workbook 1: Grade 5 Home Language or First Additional – Term 2 Week 1-2 (2025) Poetry

Can be used for Home Language or First Additional Language learners (ATP is the same)

Extra pictures were added to make it easier for FAL learners to understand and engage in learning.

Only available in PDF to respect the copyright of illustrators.

Consists of 51 pages of activities and language rules.

Short explanation of language rules is included in every section for each language aspect (learner-friendly).

The reading genre work is aligned with the BLA approach to learning and improving language and reading for Week 1-2 on ATP (2023/24)

READING COMPREHENSION:

Aligned with the Balanced Literacy Approach

Poems
– Poem (with features) and comprehension test x 2
– Fill in the features of a poem
– Summary of poems’ features
– Mindmap to complete yourself
– Visual Text: Book Cover

WORD LEVEL WORK:

1. Collective nouns

2. Abstract nouns

3. Interjections

SENTENCE LEVEL WORK:

1. Tenses: Present continuous tense

WORD MEANING:

1. Alliteration

2. Assonance

3. Consonance

4. Personification

5. Rhythm

6. Rhyme

7. Metaphor

8. Similes

SPELLING & PUNCTUATION:

1. Word division (syllables)

2. Dictionary use

3. Exclamation mark

INFORMAL ASSESSMENT:

Short language in context test for the skills learnt in weeks 1 – 2.

All work is differentiated and there are 2 or more worksheets for all concepts to do over two weeks (use some as guided reading /homework where needed)

WRITING & PRESENTING: 

Aligned with Thinking tools to assist with writing

– Own poem

Memorandum included. 

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Price: R50