Open Course: IsiXhosa Reading Academy
This Course covers the Five Reading Activities which are used to teach components of the reading curriculum described in CAPS.
It is open to any individual that is interested in learning about teaching reading!
| Responsible | Siba Zwide |
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| Last Update | 05/02/2026 |
| Completion Time | 1 day 17 hours 5 minutes |
| Members | 530 |
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Open Course
IsiXhosa/English
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Module 1: Decoding & Comprehension22Lessons · 21 hr 5 min
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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
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Reading Academy Assessment 01
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Module 2: CAPS Reading Activities20Lessons · 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 17: Setting up 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 20: Promoting independent readers 10 xp
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Reading Academy Final Assessment
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