English Education Early Literacy

Course aim

To deepen preservice teachers' knowledge of theoretical perspectives and practices of emergent literacy and reading to prepare preservice teachers for facilitating learning in literacy and reading across the birth to five
years and primary contexts.

Course content

Preservice teachers will critique theoretical and pedagogical perspectives about teaching reading across the prior-to-school and the early primary years. Preservice teachers will examine the significance of the relationship between oral language and reading and apply pedagogical approaches to support reading development for a diverse range of learners. This work includes an examination of pedagogical strategies for teaching phonological awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, phonics and fluency. Throughout the course preservice teachers will review strategies for the generation of assessment data for reading and consider approaches to analysing data to make judgements about learner strengths and needs, to inform future planning and teaching.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
EDUC 5259	English Education (Junior Primary)

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAGILL
Workshop	3 hours x 10 sessions
INTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES
Workshop	3 hours x 10 sessions
EXTERNAL, ONLINE SCHEDULED CLASS
Workshop	3 hours x 10 sesssions

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

Assessment

Case study, Project

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 1)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.