Learning About Reading

Undergraduate | 2026

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Area/Catalogue
EDUC X215
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Course ID
206416
Level of study
Level of study
Undergraduate
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Unit value
6
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Course level
2
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Inbound study abroad and exchange
Inbound study abroad and exchange
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Yes
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University-wide elective course
Yes
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Single course enrolment
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Note:
Course data is interim and subject to change

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 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

Prerequisite(s)

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Corequisite(s)

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Antirequisite(s)

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