| Credit |
6 points |
| Availability |
Semester 1 |
| Outcomes |
Students are able to design an early literacy program to support primary students’ language development and emergent literacy learning; demonstrate a repertoire of teaching and learning strategies relevant to an early literacy curriculum; evaluate literacy teaching practices; and develop their own practice on the basis of research and evidence. |
| Content |
Students explore the key features of literacy teaching practices; plan and sequence teaching and learning strategies for foundational reading and writing skills; examine and analyse a range of literacy practices; and investigate strategies to support whole, small group and individualised literacy instruction. |
| Assessment |
This comprises a 2000-word assignment and a two-hour final examination.
Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a bachelor's pass degree student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete their course. |
| Location |
UWA (Crawley) |
| Mode |
on-campus |
| Unit Rules |
Contact hours—lectures/workshops: 2 hrs per week for 13 weeks; tutorials: 1 hr per week for 13 weeks
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- The availability of units in Semester 1, 2, etc. was correct at the time of going to press but may be subject to change.
- Assistance with study skills, including English language skills, is available free of charge from Student Services for all enrolled students (see http://www.studentservices.uwa.edu.au/ss/learning). Student Services location: Second Floor, South Wing, Guild Village; telephone: 6488 2423.
- Books and other materials wherever listed may be subject to change. Book lists relating to 'Preliminary Reading', 'Recommended Reading' and 'Textbooks' are, in most cases, available at the University Co-operative Bookshop (from early January) and appropriate administrative offices for students to consult. For first-year units the Bookshop will endeavour to make available photocopies of book lists for individual units. Books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in paperback.
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