Course overview
This course aims to prepare students to understand developmental stages in learning to read, and teaching and assessing 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.
- Introduction to Reading
- Learning to Read
- Strategies for Teaching Reading
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 modes/contexts.
- Demonstrate appropriate subject matter expertise in the effective teaching of literacy, including the explicit teaching of phonological awareness and phonics in early reading, and the explicit teaching of reading and connection to early writing behaviours.
- Plan for teaching informed by an understanding of theories and key concepts and of a range of pedagogical strategies including, modelled, dialogic, explicit instruction, embodied and arts based.
- Analyse texts in terms of their structural and linguistic features and consider strategies for improving word knowledge, 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 that is responsive to students of diverse groups including to EAL/D and First Nations students.