EML1501 Assignment 2 2025 MEMO – Due 3 July 2025 (Learnlib)

EML1501
Assessment 2
Due: 3 July 2025

Question 1
1.1 Provide five (5) practical examples of opportunities that parents can create at home
to promote emergent literacy skills in the early years.

 Storytelling and reading aloud
Parents can read books, magazines, or tell stories to children. This helps in developing
listening, vocabulary, and narrative skills (Study Unit 1, 1.4 & 1.5.3).

 Engaging in conversations
Parents should interact verbally with their children daily and encourage them to talk back.
This builds speaking skills and vocabulary (Study Unit 1, 1.10.1).

 Singing songs and rhymes
Singing nursery rhymes helps children recognise patterns and rhyming words, improving
their phonological awareness (Study Unit 1, 1.5.1).

 Creating a print-rich environment
Parents can label objects in the home or provide alphabet posters, allowing children to see
and connect letters with words (Study Unit 1, 1.7.1 & 1.7.2).

 Encouraging drawing and scribbling
Providing crayons and paper allows children to explore emergent writing, where they
assign meaning to their drawings and scribbles (Study Unit 1, 1.6).

1.2 Language plays a key role in literacy and should be an essential part of emergent
literacy. Based on this statement, explain the common connection among the following
emergent literacy skills: