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EDUP3006: English: Becoming Literate
2024 unit information
In this unit students will continue to reflect on their theoretical knowledge of the principles of English teaching. They will critique key readings to challenge, make links to their own practices and to question past and current practice. Students will examine literacy assessment tools, identify the literacy demands of factual and multimodal texts and plan lessons to encourage pupil engagement through explicit teaching in stages two and three. As a result of working in this unit, students should be prepared to justify their own approach to teaching English and literacy across the curriculum areas in the primary classroom.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Education
| Code | EDUP3006 |
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| Academic unit | Education |
| Credit points | 4 |
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Prerequisites:
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114 credit points including EDUP3001 and EDUP3002 and EDUP3003 and EDUP3008 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. discuss the social construction of literacy in the primary years
- LO2. consider approaches to literacy for children who have diverse needs
- LO3. implement effective teaching and learning principles and practices in literacy in the classroom (eg visual and verbal grammar, integration across KLA, multimodality, spelling strategies and vocabulary development) in the primary years
- LO4. use appropriate criteria in selecting a range of children’s factual texts, for use with readers and writers in the primary years
- LO5. debate different methods for teaching reading with factual texts and consider the implications of different methods for a balanced literacy program in the classroom
- LO6. demonstrate a range of skills needed to work with a child learning to construct written and visual texts in the primary years
- LO7. effectively use a variety of literacy assessment strategies and learn how to interpret assessment data
- LO8. demonstrate knowledge of a range of multimodal texts suitable for primary classrooms, their schematic structure and grammatical features, and critical understandings of how to develop coherent and sequenced lessons incorporating these texts using teaching strategies to support children with diverse literacy needs.
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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