HLT3701 Assignment 2 Memo | Due 26 August 2025

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HLT3701 Assignment 2 Memo | Due 26 August 2025. All questions fully answered. QUESTION 1 (25 marks) 1.1 The environment plays a significant role in the children’s development in general and their language development, in particular (HLT3701 Study Guide 2020). 1.1.1 Briefly discuss what you understand about a language-rich environment. (5) 1.1.2 Create two activities that you would do in class to develop language-rich classroom. (6) 1.1.3 Name at least four resources that you can create and display on the classroom walls using materials that are available in your environment. (4) 1.2 The teacher of beginning reading must make sure children with a limited frame of reference catch up to other children because this affects how easily they will learn to read. 1.2.1 Analyse the activities that should be given to learners who have a limited frame of reference. (6) 1.2.2 Illustrate the disadvantage of having a limited frame of reference. (4) QUESTION 2 (30 marks) Miss Barnes has a large Grade 3 class of 45 learners in a rural school. It is early in the year, and she has found that eight learners are unable to join in shared reading or to read at all. She is sure there are various reasons for this, but she does not want them to fall further behind and would like to get them reading as soon as possible. The problem is that the school has very few resources and she is not sure what remedial activities she should do or when to do them. 2.1 Reflect on the case study and write a report on what you would advise Miss Barnes to do. (10) 2.2 Suggest strategies that Miss Barnes use to teach phonics and word recognition to early grade learners. (8) 2.3 Analyse whether Miss Barnes should integrate vocabulary development into her reading lessons. (6) 2.4 Outline how Miss Barnes should teach comprehension skills to her young readers. Can you give an example of a comprehension activity to use? (6) HLT3701/102/0/2025 QUESTION 3 (20 marks) Read the following statement and then answer the questions below: There are several techniques and methodologies that can be used to help children to write expressively and creatively. 3.1 Design an activity where you will be teaching your Grade 3 class writing using the shared writing strategy. (8) 3.2 Create a scoring rubric that you will use to assess the learners’ work. (6) 3.3 Design a checklist that you will use to record the learners’ work. (6)