Welcome and Orientation
Welcome to Funda Wande Reading Academy
This module covers Decoding and Comprehension.
There are 20 lessons in this Module, each of which will take approximately an hour to complete.
You should be able to complete the Module in 20 hours.
It is important that you go through the lessons in sequence as each lesson builds on the content
from the previous one. We encourage you to be an active reader while engaging with each lesson.
Each lesson has a video(s) that you need to watch and a self assessment (quiz) to be completed.
In order to gain the most from this course, please ensure that you watch the videos in full and that you complete each self-assessment.
You'll have multiple opportunities to complete the self-assessments (quizzes).
Final Assessments
The final assessment is made up of two tests and the details are as follows:
- Assessment 1 is taken after the completion of the Comprehension module.
- Final Assessment 2 after the completion of the CAPS Reading Activities module.
- Each test lasting 1 hour and is in multiple-choice format.
- You will receive your results after clicking the submit button at the end of each the test.
- If you fail the test you will be provided a second chance to take the test and a new date will be scheduled for this.
Lesson 01 What is Reading? | Lesson 11 What is vocabulary and why is it important? |
Lesson 02 The Big Five components of reading | Lesson 12 How do we teach vocabulary? |
Lesson 03 What are phonological and phonemic awareness? | Lesson 13 Teaching comprehension |
Lesson 04 Teaching phonological and phonemic awareness | Lesson 14 Strategy 1 – Activating background knowledge |
Lesson 05 Letter-sound knowledge and phonics | Lesson 15 Strategy 2 – Predicting |
Lesson 06 Blending and segmenting (syllables and words) | Lesson 16 Strategy 3 – Visualising |
Lesson 07 Assessing letter-sound knowledge | Lesson 17 Strategy 4 – Inferring |
Lesson 08 Developing word reading (recognition) | Lesson 18 Strategy 5 – Monitoring and repair |
Lesson 09 Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) | Lesson 19 Strategy 6 – Summarising |
Lesson 10 Assessing ORF | Lesson 20 Using questions to build comprehension |
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