English Comprehensive Workbook 4: Grade 5 Home Language or First Additional – Term 2 Week 7 – 8: Newspaper Report (2026)

English Comprehensive Workbook 4: Grade 5 Home Language or First Additional – Term 2 Week  7 – 8 (2026)

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 50 pages of activities and language rules.

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

Contains all the reading genre work aligned with the BLA approach for learning and improving language and reading for Weeks 9-10 on ATP (2023/24)

READING COMPREHENSION:

Aligned with the Balanced Literacy Approach

Drama / Dialogue:

-Pre-read: Vocabulary + dictionary use

-Newspaper report with comprehension

-Newspaper report features fill in

-Visual text: Graph with comprehension text

WORD LEVEL WORK:

1. Adjectives

2. Pronouns

3. Conjunctions

4. Connections

SENTENCE LEVEL WORK:

1. Past continuous tense

2. Future continuous tense

3. Active and passive voice

4. Direct and indirect speech (reported speech)

5. Question form

SPELLING & PUNCTUATION:

1. Ellipsis

2. Exclamation mark

3. Quotation marks / inverted commas

INFORMAL ASSESSMENT:

-Short language in context test for the skills learnt in weeks 7 – 8.

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/intervention where needed)

WRITING: 

Uses Thinking tools to scaffold the writing task: Write a newspaper report

Whole writing process is included in the booklet – one page per step

Checklists and control list included

Rubric included

Suggestion: Print in A5 to save paper or display on the board for learners to copy into workbooks.

Memorandum (some of the pages are included – the rest will follow next week and I will update the link – just download the document again)

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Price: R50