Activity 2 Touch Point

TIP ENGLISH FIRST AND FAL 2 - IFFA6312

Task 2 — Analysing and

teaching SHORT STORIES
in the Intermediate Phase:
Your mentor teacher wants you to select a short
story that is suitable for Grade 5 learners from
your New Beginnings prescribed book for a
Reading and Viewing lesson. Source: Malan, R.
(Ed). 2006. New Beginnings. 2nd Revised Edition.
Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern
 Choice of text
Attach your short story as Annexure B (3).
 The short story must be attached

 It must be pitched at an
appropriate level for Grade 5
learners

 The length must be suitable for a

Reading and Viewing lesson

 The short story should lend itself

well to the development of
Reading and Viewing skills
 Lesson
Objectives
Select suitable objectives
from your CAPS document
and paste them at the top of
your worksheet. Remember to
reference them correctly (3).
Consult the CAPS document and
relevant objectives must be quoted
for a Grade 5 Reading and Viewing
lesson using a short story
The correct in-text reference for
the quotation should be provided.
 The pre-reading activity must be creative,
Pre-reading fun, and engaging.

activity
Design a WORKSHEET based on
this short story. Your worksheet
must assess your lesson objectives
The pre-reading activity must be skilfully
and should include a pre-reading
designed to activate learners’ schema,
activity (6). prepare them to read the text, and allow
the teacher to assess learners’ prior
knowledge

Worksheet design
Include TWO post-reading
activities. One post-reading
activity needs to be a writing
task based on the short story
(10).
• Appropriate, original activities for post-reading and a
pair/ groupwork activity for writing must be
designed
• Activities must be based on teaching approaches,
are well-scaffolded, and a great deal of thought and
creativity should go into the layout of the worksheet
• The activities must be suitable for the development
of Reading and Writing skills, and masterfully
incorporate language and vocabulary development
• The activities should assess the lesson objectives
 elect and design relevant assessment tools
for each activity presented on the
worksheet.

Assessment tools
You need to include suitable
assessment tools such as a memo The assessment tools should meet the criteria
for the activities on the worksheet and purpose of the tool.
and a rubric for the writing task
(8).

The assessment tool must be appropriate for

the lesson, must be well presented and reflect
a great deal of thought and creativity.