Course overview
This course will engage preservice teachers with theoretical perspectives and teaching and learning strategies for reading and writing conventional, multimodal and literary texts in the junior primary years. Preservice teachers will develop knowledge of text production from a semiotic perspective, inclusive of linguistic and non-linguistic modalities and of a range of production technologies. Preservice teachers will also focus on text reception, meaning reading and viewing. Preservice teachers will develop practical skills of producing and interpreting texts in a range of genres using a range of methods. They will learn how educators, working within current English curriculum frameworks, employ specific strategies to facilitate and assess literacy development in educational contexts in the junior primary years.
Course learning outcomes
- Critically analyse theoretical perspectives that inform the Australian Curriculum English and the junior primary years
- Identify language features and patterns of texts, and the strategies used to interpret and create texts
- Examine the roles and practices of the reader and text producer and consider the implications for teaching and learning in the junior primary years
- Select and use a range texts and resources that will advance student learning in English
- Analyse student learning processes and assessment data to inform teaching and learning
- Design, planning, and assessment approaches for junior primary years learning in English
- Examine and analyse the contemporary context of teaching and learning English in the Junior Primary years.