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Reading Academy | Capricorn Cohort

Reading Academy | Capricorn Cohort

This course, aimed at Capricorn District teachers, teacher interns and coaches, covers the Five Reading Activities which are used to teach the components of the reading curriculum described in CAPS.

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Responsible Phumeza
Last Update 14/09/2026
Completion Time 1 day 16 hours 11 minutes
Members 47
Sepedi/English
  • Module 1: Decoding & Comprehension
    21Lessons · 20 hr 10 min
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      Welcome and Orientation
      Preview
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      Lesson 1: What is Reading?
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 2: The Big Five in teaching reading
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 3: What are phonological and phonemic awareness?
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 4: Teaching phonological and phonemic awareness
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 5: Letter-sound knowledge and phonics
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 6: Blending and segmenting
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 7: Assessing letter-sound knowledge
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 8: Developing word reading (word recognition)
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 9: Oral Reading Fluency (ORF)
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 10: Assessing oral reading fluency
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 11: What is vocabulary and why is it important?
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 12: How do we teach vocabulary?
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 13: Teaching comprehension
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 14: Strategy 1 - Activating background knowledge
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 15: Strategy 2 – Predicting
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      Lesson 16: Strategy 3 – Visualising
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 17: Strategy 4 – Inferring
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 18: Strategy 5 – Monitoring and repair
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 19: Strategy 6 – Summarising
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 20: Using questions to build comprehension
      ​ 10 xp
  • Module 2: CAPS Reading Activities
    20Lessons · 20 hr
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      Lesson 1: The Gradual Release Model
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 2: Overview of the CAPS Reading Activities
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 3: The Five Reading Activities Across The Grades
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 4: All about Teacher Read Aloud
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 5: The Read Aloud Lesson
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 6: Assessing During Read Aloud
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 7: All About Shared Reading
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 8 + 9: Teaching Shared Reading Three Times A Week
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 10: Assessing During Shared Reading
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 11: All about Group Guided Reading
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 12: Texts for Group Guided Reading
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 13: Setting up Group Guided Reading lessons
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 14: The teacher’s role in Group Guided Reading
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 15: Assessing during Group Guided Reading
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 16: All about Paired Reading
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 18: All about Independent Reading
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 19: The role of the teacher in Independent Reading
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 17: Setting up Paired Reading
      ​ 10 xp
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      Lesson 20: Promoting independent readers
      ​ 10 xp
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      Final Assessment
  • Additional Resources
    3Lessons · 1 min