OC: Reading Academy - XHO

OC: Reading Academy - XHO

This Open Course covers the Five Reading Activities which are used to teach components of the reading curriculum described in CAPS.


Responsible Vusumzi Mkhangeli
Last Update 09/10/2024
Completion Time 1 day 17 hours 5 minutes
Members 44
Open Course IsiXhosa/English
  • Module 1: Decoding & Comprehension
    22Lessons · 21 hr 5 min
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    • Lesson 1: What is Reading?
      10 xp
    • Lesson 2: The Big Five in teaching reading
      10 xp
    • Lesson 3: What are phonological and phonemic awareness?
      10 xp
    • Lesson 4: Teaching phonological and phonemic awareness
      10 xp
    • Lesson 5: Letter-sound knowledge and phonics
      10 xp
    • Lesson 6: Blending and segmenting
      10 xp
    • Lesson 7: Assessing letter-sound knowledge
      10 xp
    • Lesson 8: Developing word reading (word recognition)
      10 xp
    • Lesson 9: Oral Reading Fluency (ORF)
      10 xp
    • Lesson 10: Assessing oral reading fluency
      10 xp
    • Lesson 11: What is vocabulary and why is it important?
      10 xp
    • Lesson 12: How do we teach vocabulary?
      10 xp
    • Lesson 13: Teaching comprehension
      10 xp
    • Lesson 14: Strategy 1 - Activating background knowledge
      10 xp
    • Lesson 15: Strategy 2 – Predicting
    • Lesson 16: Strategy 3 – Visualising
      10 xp
    • Lesson 17: Strategy 4 – Inferring
      10 xp
    • Lesson 18: Strategy 5 – Monitoring and repair
      10 xp
    • Lesson 19: Strategy 6 – Summarising
      10 xp
    • Lesson 20: Using questions to build comprehension
      10 xp
    • Reading Academy Assessment 01
  • Module 2: CAPS Reading Activities
    20Lessons · 20 hr
    • Lesson 1: The Gradual Release Model
      10 xp
    • Lesson 2: Overview of the CAPS Reading Activities
      10 xp
    • Lesson 3: The Five Reading Activities Across The Grades
      10 xp
    • Lesson 4: All about Teacher Read Aloud
      10 xp
    • Lesson 5: The Read Aloud Lesson
      10 xp
    • Lesson 6: Assessing During Read Aloud
      10 xp
    • Lesson 7: All About Shared Reading
      10 xp
    • Lesson 8 + 9: Teaching Shared Reading Three Times A Week
      10 xp
    • Lesson 10: Assessing During Shared Reading
      10 xp
    • Lesson 11: All about Group Guided Reading
      10 xp
    • Lesson 12: Texts for Group Guided Reading
      10 xp
    • Lesson 13: Setting up Group Guided Reading lessons
      10 xp
    • Lesson 14: The teacher’s role in Group Guided Reading
      10 xp
    • Lesson 15: Assessing during Group Guided Reading
      10 xp
    • Lesson 16: All about Paired Reading
      10 xp
    • Lesson 17: Setting up Paired Reading
      10 xp
    • Lesson 18: All about Independent Reading
      10 xp
    • Lesson 19: The role of the teacher in Independent Reading
      10 xp
    • Lesson 20: Promoting independent readers
      10 xp
    • Reading Academy Final Assessment