READING NORMS

INTERMEDIATE PHASE
 READING STRATEGY FOR GRADES 4 - 6
SKILLS CONTENT STRATEGIES AND SUB-SKILLS

READING & Prescribed literature genre Reading/viewing strategies:

VIEWING • Folklore Use pre-reading, reading and post reading
• Short story strategies:
• Drama • To understand the text
• Poetry • For close and critical reading of the text
Reading and Viewing strategies (reading comprehension)
• Summary • To demonstrate independent reading (reading
• Visual literacy: advertising (poster, widely for pleasure, information and learning)
pamphlet), Introduce learners to:
cartoon, comic strip, diagram/graph/ • Text features – titles, illustrations, graphs,
table/ charts, diagrams, headings, subheadings,
charts numbering, captions, headlines, format, e.g.
• Critical language awareness (being newspaper columns, etc.
aware of • Text structures – lists, sequential order,
the denotation and connotation of words description, procedures, main point and
and supporting points, narrative sequence.
that it carries hidden meanings and • Parts of a book – title page, table of contents,
messages, chapters, glossary, etc.
e.g. stereotypes, the speaker’s prejudices • Reading and Viewing strategies
and -- Skimming for main ideas
intentions) -- Scanning for supporting details
• Comprehension -- Inferring meaning of unfamiliar words and
• Prepared and unprepared reading images by using word attack skills and
aloud contextual clues
-- Rereading
-- Making notes (main and supporting ideas)
-- Summarise main and supporting ideas in point
form/paragraph as per required length
-- Clarifying
-- Making inferences
-- Explaining writer’s point of view
-- Drawing conclusions/own opinion
• Visual literacy (range of graphic and visual
texts e.g. advertisements, notices, posters,
comics, cartoons, photographs, pictures):
• Persuasive techniques: emotive language, bias
• Impact of use of layout and design features,
e.g. font types and sizes, headings and
 READING STRATEGY FOR GRADES 4 - 6
SKILLS CONTENT STRATEGIES AND SUB-SKILLS

captions, images
Poetry
• Literal meaning
• Figurative meaning
• Theme and message
• Imagery, e.g. simile and personification, word
choice, tone, emotional responses
• Sound devices, e.g. Lines, words, stanzas,
rhyme, rhythm, punctuation, repetition, refrain,
alliteration (assonance and consonance),
onomatopoeia
Stories, Drama,
Key features of texts
• Plot
• Characters
• Characterisation
• Theme and messages
• Background and setting – relation to character
and theme
• Text structure and format
• Key features of the text
Information and social texts
• Audience and purpose
• Main idea and supporting ideas/specific details
• Text structure and format
• Key features of the text
Prepared Reading (Reading aloud)
• Use of tone, voice projection, pace, eye
contact, posture and gestures
• Pronounce words without distorting meaning
Unprepared reading (reading aloud)
• Read fluently according to purpose
• Pronounce words without distorting meaning
• Use tone, voice projection, pace, eye contact,
posture and gestures correctly
 READING NORMS GRADES 4 - 6
LANGUAGE GRADE 4 GRADE 5 GRADE 6
LEVEL
TIME ALLOCATION FOR HL 5 hours 5 hours 5 hours
READING FAL 5 hours 5 hours 4 hours
READING VOCABULARY HL 2 500 – 3 000 words 3 000 – 4 000 words 3 500 – 5 000 words
FAL 1 000 – 2 500 words 2 000 – 3 500 words 3 000 – 5 000 words
READING COMPREHENSION HL 150-200 words 200-250 words 250-300 words
/ INTENSIVE READING TEXTS FAL 100-150 words 150-200 words 200-250 words
PREPARED READING HL 2-3 min 2-3 min 2-3 min
FAL 3-5 min 3-5 min 3-5 min
TEXT FOR READING ALOUD HL 2 paragraphs of between 5-6 2 paragraphs of between 5-6 2 paragraphs of between 5-6
sentences sentences sentences
FAL 1 paragraph of between 5-6 1 paragraph of between 5-6 1 paragraph of between 5-6
sentences sentences sentences
SUMMARY HL 40-50 words from 230 words 50-60 words from 250 words 60-70 words from 280 words
text text text
FAL 30-40 words from 100-word 40-50 words from 120-word 60-70 words from 180-word
text text text
EXTENSIVE READING 5-6 pages per day 6-8 pages per day 8-10 pages per day
NUMBER OF BOOKS TO BE • 35 titles to match learner teacher number ratio. (A book per learner)
READ • It is recommended that each class has enough titles to ensure that each learner
always has a book to read.
 READING NORMS GRADES 4 - 6
INDICATORS NORM DELIVERABLE RESOURCES GRADE 4 GRADE 5 GRADE 6
READING Read aloud • Model reading to • CAPS READING TIME
ALOUD showing learners • Dictionaries HL 5hrs 5hrs 5hrs
competency on • Teach reading • Literature genres FAL 5hrs 5hrs 4hrs
the following: process to learners (Folktales, Short TEXTS FOR READING ALOUD
• Speed, rate or o Pre-reading stories, Novel,
pace o During reading Drama, Poetry) HL 2 paragraphs 2 paragraphs 2 paragraphs
• Voice o After reading • Workbooks of between 5- of between 5- of between 5-
projection – • Teach reading aloud • Information texts 6 sentences 6 sentences 6 sentences
volume, pitch criteria through which • Multimedia texts FAL 1 paragraph 1 paragraph 1 paragraph
and tone learners will be • Electronic texts of between 5- of between 5- of between 5-
• Articulation of assessed based on – • Print media 6 sentences 6 sentences 6 sentences
words, for formal assessment • Visual texts
phrases, task – Oral • Texts used across
clauses and • Assess learners’ the curriculum
sentences reading aloud
o Self- competency
correct informally – to
ion prepare them for
• Fluency and formal assessment
expression • Assess learners
• Gestures and reading aloud
motions competency and
• Handling of enter marks as part of
reading text the Oral formal task of
or script assessment – 15%
• Record reading aloud
on a log register
• Identify and invite an
influential member of
the society to come
and do model
reading to learners
 READING NORMS GRADES 4 - 6
INDICATORS NORM DELIVERABLE RESOURCES GRADE 4 GRADE 5 GRADE 6
Participate in • Reward excellent • CAPS
school reading readers • Dictionaries
competition • Identify and enter • Literature genres
• Readathon learners to participate (Folktales, Short
• Assembly in reading stories, Novel,
• 30 minutes competition Drama, Poetry)
drop all and o Clusters, district, • Information texts
read province and • Multimedia texts
national • Electronic texts
• Print media
• Visual texts
• Texts used
across the
curriculum

EXTENSIVE Daily home • Teach reading • CAPS GRADE 4 GRADE 5 GRADE 6

READING reading – given methodologies • Dictionaries READING TEXTS
text o Independent, • Reading diary HL 150 - 200 200 – 250 250 –
• Read given paired, and log register words words 300
text to parent group reading • Literature genres words
/ guardian / • Teach reading (Folktales, Short 100 – 150 words 150 – 200 200 -
adult / senior strategies stories, Novel, FAL words 250
learner (to be o Skimming, Drama, Poetry) words
signed) scanning, • Information texts NUMBER OF PAGES TO READ PER DAY
• Retell what predicting, • Multimedia texts 5-6 pages per day 6 – 8 pages 8 – 10
has been inferring, • Electronic texts per day pages
read visualizing, • Print media per day
 READING NORMS GRADES 4 - 6
INDICATORS NORM DELIVERABLE RESOURCES GRADE 4 GRADE 5 GRADE 6
deducing, • Visual texts
Reading corner questioning, • Texts used
and library making notes, across the
• Read books summarizing curriculum
from the • Develop homework
classroom reading diary
reading • Monitor and check
corner and homework reading
library diary
o Indepe • Manage classroom
ndent, reading corner and
paired, administer library –
and issuing reading books
group to learners
readin
g

Participate in
community
reading activities
• Volunteer to
read
o scriptur
es in
church
o obituari
es
during
mourni
ng

REMEDIAL Participate in • Focus on learners who • Dictionaries

READING remedial reading can’t read at the • CAPS phonics
programme programme –
 READING NORMS GRADES 4 - 6
INDICATORS NORM DELIVERABLE RESOURCES GRADE 4 GRADE 5 GRADE 6
• Do phonics expected Foundation
programme performance level Phase CAPS
• Do phonemic • Identify learners who • Remedial
awareness need remedial reading
• Build on intervention by programme
vocabulary professionals • Teachers Guide
• Learners Book
• Core Reader
• Readers
• Workbooks
READING Learns the Identify and select • Dictionaries
COMPREHE language of appropriate texts for • CAPS
NSION assessment in reading comprehension • Teachers Guide
comprehension – activities: • Learners Book
how they should • Narrative text for • Literature genres
respond to comprehension • Visual and
questions activities multimedia texts
• Multiple • Visual / multimedia • Comprehension
choice text for passages or
questions comprehension articles from
• True / false activities various sources
and yes / no • Comprehension text • Reading
questions for Language comprehension
• Circle the Structures and assessment
correct Conventions activities exemplars
answer • Short text for o PIRLS
• Rewrite the summarizing o ANA
following • Comprehension
sentence … Teach the language of tests from other
• Complete the assessment to prepare content subjects
following learners on how to
sentence… respond to questions
• List / give … • Different questioning
techniques
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INDICATORS NORM DELIVERABLE RESOURCES GRADE 4 GRADE 5 GRADE 6
• Knowledge, o Multiple choice
comprehensio questions
n, o True / false and
application, yes / no
analysis, questions
synthesis and o Circle the
evaluation correct answer
questions o Rewrite the
following
Write reading sentence …
comprehension o Complete the
tests for informal following
and formal sentence…
assessment tasks o List / give …
• Read and o Knowledge,
respond to comprehension
narrative , application,
comprehensio analysis,
n passage – synthesis and
languages evaluation
and or questions
content
subjects text Use reading
• Read and comprehension activities
respond to from international and
visual text national assessments
• Read and (PIRLS and ANA) to
respond to prepare learners how to
Language respond to
Structures and comprehension questions
Conventions
text Develop reading
comprehension test
programme for informal
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INDICATORS NORM DELIVERABLE RESOURCES GRADE 4 GRADE 5 GRADE 6
• Read and and formal assessment
summarize a tasks
passage
• Informal reading
Complete comprehension test
reading o End of each
comprehension two-week
activities in cycle – using
Workbooks text prescribed
by CAPS for
Read and that cycle
respond to • Formal reading
comprehension comprehension test
passages from o 4 times a year –
other content once per term
subjects – NS, as per CAPS
Tech, Maths, SS, provisions
EMS, LO and
Creative Arts

Read and
respond to
comprehension
activities from
international and
national
instruments –
PIRLS and ANA –
as provided by
the Department
READING Learn about the Teach the different types
LITERATURE different types of of literature genres as
GENRES literature genres outlined in CAPS
 READING NORMS GRADES 4 - 6
INDICATORS NORM DELIVERABLE RESOURCES GRADE 4 GRADE 5 GRADE 6
• Features of • Features of each
each genre genre
o Poetry o Poetry
o Drama o Drama
o Narrati o Narratives –
ves – novel, short
novel, stories and
short folktales
stories
and Develop writing
folktale programme responding
s to literature study –
• Vocabulary informal and formal
development assessment tasks
• Pronunciation • Informal assessment
and spelling tasks – respond to
literature study test
o End of each
two-week
cycle – using
genre
prescribed by
CAPS for that
cycle
• Formal assessment
tasks
o 4 times a year –
once per term
as per CAPS
provisions