CHL2601 Assignment 8 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) 2025 - DUE September 202

CHL2601 Assignment 8 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) 2025 - DUE September 2025... QUESTION 1 (30 marks) 1.1 Carefully read the questions below and discuss the answers in your own words. 1.1.1 What role does reading for fun play in building a positive relationship with children’s literature? (2 marks) 1.1.2 How do stories in children’s literature help children develop their own identity as readers? (2 marks) 1.1.3 In what ways does reading stories help children build empathy and understanding of others? (2 marks) 1.1.4 How did colonial influence shape early children’s literature in South Africa? (2 marks) 1.1.5 Why is it important for children to read stories that are culturally relevant and contextually appropriate? (2 marks) 1.1.6 What does the term "Africanisation" mean, and how does it relate to children’s literature in Africa? (2 marks) 1.1.7 How has children’s literature evolved from oral traditions to printed stories? (2 marks) 1.1.8 What role does literature play in conveying emotions, ideas, and stories through words? (2 marks) 1.1.9 How do children’s real-life experiences contribute to their emergent literacy skills? (2 marks) 1.1.10 How has the definition of literacy evolved over time? (2 marks) CHL2601/ASSESSMENT 8/0/2025 1.2 List the FOUR main genres of literature including ONE example of each genre in relation to children’s literature. (8 marks) 1.3 Share your favourite genre of literature and ONE example to support your answer. (2 marks) QUESTION 2 (25 marks) 2.1 Design a table where you compare and contrast between the TWO children’s literature genres, poetry and drama, using the rubric below as a guide: Rubric: Table to compare and contrast between poetry and drama Criteria Description Marks 1. Correct definitions Define poetry and drama 4 2. Clear and accurate differences/similarities Provides clear, concise and accurate differences and similarities for poetry and drama 6 3. Relevant examples Each genre is illustrated by a relevant, well-chosen example. 6 4. Table organisation, presentation, accuracy and completeness The table is well-organised, easy to read, and visually clear with headings for the genres, definitions and examples. All information is factually correct, complete and topical. 4 TOTAL 20 2.2 Describe FIVE points that support the importance of teaching learners both poetry and drama in the context of ECE as they learn literacy and communication skills. (5 marks) CHL2601/ASSESSMENT 8/0/2025 QUESTION 3 (20 marks) 3.1 Look at the learners in the illustration below. Imagine that they are all in your class. Carefully read the questions below and the answers in your own words. Source: Illustration created using CANVA. 3.1.1. Look at the illustration above. Choose TWO learners and create character names and ONE personality trait for each of them. (2 marks) 3.1.2 Based on what the learners are wearing and carrying in the illustration above, describe a setting where a story could take place with all of them as characters. (2 marks) 3.1.3 Write a short story idea using any THREE characters from the picture. What problem will they face, and how will they solve it? (2 marks) 3.1.4 What important lesson (theme) could we learn from a story about these learners? Explain how the learners in the picture could show this lesson. (2 marks) 3.1.5 Imagine you are writing a story about the learners in the above illustration. Write TWO sentences that use descriptive language (adjectives) to describe one of the learner’s actions or feelings. (2 marks) CHL2601/ASSESSMENT 8/0/2025 3.1.6 How does the illustration above help us understand what kind of story this might be? Name TWO things you see that give you clues about the story. (2 marks) 3.1.7 Children’s stories often include diverse characters. Choose TWO learners in the illustration above who are different in some way and explain how a story could show them working together or becoming friends. (2 marks) 3.1.8 What message or moral lesson could a story based on the illustration above teach young readers? (2 marks) 3.1.9 Choose TWO learners in the illustration above and imagine that the story is told from their point of view. Write FOUR sentences about how they feel and what they are doing (TWO sentences per character). (4 marks) QUESTION 4 (25 marks) 4.1 Create a one-page script for a children’s story for a digital story telling podcast episode for children about a theme of your choice with a moral of the story at the end. Use the rubric below to guide your content creation according to the mark allocations: Assessment Rubric: _____________________ PLANNING 3 2 1 0 TOTAL MARKS 1 Characters 3 2 Setting 3 3 Plot 3 4 Theme 3 5 Language use 3 6 Diversity and inclusion 3 7 Moral of the story 2 TOTAL 20 (20 marks) CHL2601/ASSESSMENT 8/0/2025 4.2 List FIVE differentiated questions that you would ask at the end of the story about the podcast episode you created in Question 4.1.