Course overview
This course prepares students to understand developmental stages in learning to read and to teach reading in the early years settings, utilising a range of methods and approaches including phonics-based learning and meaning making strategies, incorporating multimodalities and catering to diverse learner groups with a range of language backgrounds.
- Reading and Culture
- Reading and Multimodality
- Reading and the Learning Process 1
- Reading and Phonological Awareness
- Reading and Vocabulary
- Reading and Comprehension
- Reading and Instructional Strategies
- Reading and Visual Literacy
- Reading Difficulties
- Reading and Assessment
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of key concepts and metalanguage in theories of reading development and for children to learn to read proficiently and purposefully with increasingly complex texts from a range of contexts
- DDemonstrate appropriate subject matter expertise in the effective teaching of literacy, including the explicit teaching of phonics in early reading and the explicit teaching of reading and writing in subjects other than English
- Plan for teaching informed by an understanding of theories and key concepts and of a range pedagogical strategies including, modelled, dialogic, embodied explicit instruction, modelled, dialogic, embodied and arts based
- Analyse texts in terms of their structural and linguistic features and consider strategies for supporting meaning-making and comprehension
- Interpret evidence of reading to form judgements about children's reading development and achievement and inform planning for teaching and learning
Availability
Class details
Magill
Group 1
Class number 66278
Section TU03
Size 27
Available 27
Class number 66279
Section TU02
Size 27
Available 27
Class number 66280
Section TU01
Size 27
Available 27
Notes:
Online
Group 1
Class number 68419
Section 01OL
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 68721
Section 02OL
Size 30
Available 30
Mawson Lakes
Group 1
Class number 66281
Section TU03
Size 27
Available 27
Class number 66282
Section TU02
Size 27
Available 27
Class number 66283
Section TU01
Size 27
Available 27
Mt Gambier
Group 1
Class number 66284
Section TU01
Size 18
Available 18
Whyalla
Group 1
Class number 66285
Section TU01
Size 12
Available 12
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