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.
- 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
- Demonstrate appropriate subject matter expertise in the effective teaching of literacy, including the explicit teaching of phonics in early reading, the teaching of proficient and purposeful reading with increasingly complex texts, and the explicit teaching of reading in subjects other than English.
- Plan for teaching informed by an understanding of theories, key concepts and a range of pedagogical strategies including, modelled, dialogic and embodied teaching and explicit instruction.
- Analyse texts in terms of their structural and linguistic features and consider strategies for improving word knowledge, meaning-making and comprehension in academic performance.
- Interpret evidence to form judgements about children's reading development and achievement and to inform planning for teaching and learning that is responsive to students of diverse groups including to EAL/D and First Nations students.