Introduction to Literacy and Numeracy in Early Childhood

Course aim

To apply knowledge of child development and to develop knowledge, skills and understanding relevant to the early development of Literacy and Numeracy with children aged between Birth and 6 years.

Course content

Literacy
Planning curriculum experiences to stimulate development in phonemic awareness, the alphabetic principle, ways to assess language development and plan appropriate activities to extend language, The importance of extending vocabulary in the early years, songs, rhymes and chants, storytelling, using props in oral narratives, reading aloud, sharing texts together, encouraging children’s multimodal responses to fiction and information texts, connections between early reading and writing behaviours and the development of symbols representing meaning, building bridges between diverse community literacy and school literacy.
Numeracy
Interface between sensory /physical and social learning in young children, classification using collections as a stimulus for investigation of shapes and familiar objects, size and ordering, pattern and quantity, subitizing and counting, comparing matching and grouping; part/whole relations; environment as context for location and movement; time in relation to significant events and sequence within routines.
Integration with language development verbal, visual and other nonverbal means of communication appropriate curriculum and assessment of very young children’s learning.

Textbook(s)

Seefelt, C & Galper, A 2008, Active experiences for active children: mathematics, 3rd edition, Pearson, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey

Hill, S 2006, Developing early literacy: assessment and teaching, 2nd edition, Eleanor Curtain Publishing, Melbourne

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
EDUC 1044	Professional Experience Birth to 3

No prerequisites for Master of Teaching (Early Childhood) Students.

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAGILL
Lecture	1 hour x 12 weeks
Workshop	2 hours x 12 weeks
EXTERNAL, MAGILL, DISTANCE EDUCATION
External	130 hours over x 12 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Literacy curriculum portfolio, Numeracy curriculum project

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 1A)
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