Course overview
This course prepares 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. Student will learn the conceptual frameworks informing instructional strategies for teaching phonological awareness, phonics, promoting fluency, and supporting comprehension in the beginning and later stages of reading. Strategies for reading different text types including narrative, nonfiction and digital texts will be included.
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
- Demonstrate 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
Degree list
The following degrees include this course