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EDLA309 Literacy Education 2

10 cp

This unit focuses on the learning and teaching of speaking, listening, writing, reading and viewing appropriate to the later years of primary school. It will strengthen the students understanding of themselves as learners and educators as they meet intellectual challenges using a range of cognitive processes, and demonstrating a commitment to professional growth. This unit will also assist students to address the questions of integration of knowledge and its application in schools and community. Theoretical frameworks of literacy education will be revisited to ensure students have a strong basis for pedagogy. Students will extend their study of a range of relevant literary (eg novels) information, media multi-modal texts appropriate to years 3-6 and examine ways of using such texts for planning and integrating literacy across their classroom teaching. Students will extend their knowledge and ability to scaffold childrens learning at more complex levels of reading and writing structures and processes, with a particular focus on scaffolding literacy. This knowledge incorporates childrens ability to draw on spelling strategies, word processing and technology to underpin their competence in literacy. Emphasis will be on students learning how to support children to become effective, analytical and critical writers and readers of a variety of text types for different purposes, appropriate to years 3-6. Underpinned by a fundamental concern for justice and equity and the dignity of all human beings, the unit will develop students understanding of assessment-related issues and the purposes, characteristics, and limitations of various types of assessment. They will become knowledgeable in the implementation of essential learning and productive pedagogies.

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