EDF3032 · Children's literature, storytelling and the arts

Overview

This unit uses creative approaches to develop your knowledge and understanding of English discipline specific content. You will learn how to develop personal literacy through integrated approaches and an explicit focus on reading recovery and language development across reading, writing, speaking and listening. You will explore a wide range of literature suitable for children and engage with various approaches to storytelling and language arts, including digital and cross-arts storytelling. You will develop your skills in English and literacy including how to critically analyse texts, how to select and present literature for children and methods of integrating language arts across the curriculum. By developing your own English communication skills as story makers and tellers, you will gain the ability to design pedagogies for engaging children in literature and developing literacies through storytelling and to develop literacy leadership.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. demonstrate knowledge and understanding of English language arts discipline specific content and how to develop personal literacy
2. exhibit and apply knowledge of the diversity of genres in children's literature
3. evidence understanding of effective selection of literature for children of diverse backgrounds and abilities that will promote literacy
4. present literature and stories to children in a variety of ways that promote oral and written literacy
5. articulate the role literature, storytelling and the arts play in social justice, health and wellbeing, sustainability, intercultural communication, and First Nations and Asian peoples’ cultures and perspectives
6. understand, design and apply varied pedagogical approaches to integrating the study of English language, literature and language arts across the curriculum.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 18 hours of scheduled learning delivered synchronously on campus and/or online via regular directed learning activities; • 6 hours of scheduled learning delivered online via synchronous and/or asynchronous directed learning activities; and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.