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CHL2601 Assignment 6 2024 | Due 5 August 2024. All Questions answered with references.
Based on this response, develop an argument to explain to parents why it is so important to provide a literacy-rich environment at home. Your argument must be plain enough for parents, caregivers and grannies to understand. (5)
1.2 Across cultures, children learn through imitation. List five events that young children actively observe that give them opportunities to notice how reading and writing are used in real life. (5)
1.3 Based on your answer to question 1.2, explain what literacy skills children learn through these observations. (5)
1.4 Linguistic, cultural, academic and cognitive diversity is a reality of the South African classroom. It cannot be assumed that all children have similar reading experiences or exposure to books. Examine and discuss five realities that contribute to inequality in the literacy experiences of young children. (10)
1.5 Based on your response to question 1.4, cut and paste images from magazines and/or promotional material in newspapers, and develop a story without words to use in a Grade 1 classroom as a way of developing vocabulary, language and a sense of story. Fold an A4 paper in half for this purpose. Your “book” now has four empty pages. Develop your story without words across these four empty pages. Take photos of each page of your book and paste them in the correct sequence in your answer file. (4)
1.6 Based on the book (story without words) you have made, indicate how you will use the book to develop the following:
a) language (4)
b) concepts about print (3)
c) phonemic awareness (4)
Question 2 [30]
2.1 Explain how the literature that you select for a reading-aloud session differs from the literature you select to teach reading in group-guided sessions. (8)
2.2 Explain how the books that you select for the reading corner (independent reading) differ from the books you have selected in question 2.1. (5)
2.3 Select any children’s story you like. Explain how you would use the story to develop and/or improve the following:
a) listening skills (3)
b) memory (3)
c) critical thinking skills (3)
d) vocabulary, language and grammar (3)
2.4 Explain how you would use the story you have selected in question 2.3 to teach concepts in one non-language subject in the Foundation Phase. (5)
Question 3 [30]
3.1 The concept “emergent literacy” is explained on page 49 in your study guide. Do additional research and compare the emergent literacy approach with the school-readiness approach. In your analysis, focus on how each of these approaches view the literacy development of young children. (10)
3.2 Based on the research you have done to answer question 3.1, critique the approach you believe in less in terms of its value for literacy development. (5)
Compare this response with the information in paragraph 3.1.4. in learning unit 3 PDF reader, as well as in paragraph 3.5.2 in learning unit 3 PDF reader.
a) Identify any three components that are either absent or a weakness in Foundation Phase classrooms where you live. (3)
b) Investigate and present reasons why this is the case (5)
c) Propose solutions to each of the points of weakness you have identified. Your solutions must be practical and achievable. (7)
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