The Home Language Teacher's Guide contains a year plan, the  plans, possible time schedules for a full week and daily step-by-step teaching plans for 40 weeks for the subject. The teaching plans include the following: the weekly teaching plan, hints and essential information as background knowledge before the lessons are tackled, the rhymes and songs mentioned in the teaching plan, complete step-by-step lessons for each day and guidance on how  to complete the prescribed assessment tasks. The Teacher’s Guide is written according to the requirements of the CAPS.