EDF3034 · Young children's literacy development

Overview

This unit is an advanced study of your understandings and pedagogical knowledge of children's literacy learning within the home, community, early childhood and school contexts. It builds on knowledge from earlier units and learning from professional experience across a range of early years educational settings. Exploration of current research literature illuminates the various ways diverse learners can fully and effectively participate within multiple contexts in a contemporary literate society. Emphasis is given to developing further understanding of language pedagogies, theories and strategies related to children's literacy learning including, for example, coding competence, semantic practices, pragmatic competence and critical thinking practices. You will develop the skills and confidence to plan, implement, evaluate and lead literacy initiatives intended to improve children's literacy outcomes across contexts and cultures.

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. explore and apply approaches related to language learning for diverse learners including decoding/encoding codes, symbols and conventions of written, spoken, visual and multimodal texts in response to contextual factors
2. apply strategies for developing children's awareness of key literacy concepts
3. develop plans detailing goals, implementation, and evaluation of children's phonemic awareness, concepts of print, fluency, comprehension and vocabulary development
4. explore and apply approaches related to comprehending and composing written, spoken, visual and multimodal texts
5. understand and apply the various purposes for different written, spoken, visual and multimodal texts and how these texts are used across cultures and diverse contexts
6. understand how to develop children's critical thinking across various texts.

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: Kaplan enrolment • 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.