Reading Academy - TTN

Reading Academy - TTN

This course is for the Teach The Nation cohort and covers the Five Reading Activities which are used to teach components of the reading curriculum described in CAPS.

Private Course
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Responsible Vusumzi Mkhangeli
Last Update 12/12/2024
Completion Time 1 day 17 hours 5 minutes
Members 6
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