School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2023 Units. All assessment changes will be published by 20th February 2023. All students are reminded to check the handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    English 2: Emergent Literacy 4-6 Years
  • Unit Code

    LAN2376
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Amelia Keziah RUSCOE

Description

This unit introduces students to literacy teaching in early childhood with a focus on the emergence and development of reading and writing. Students will examine different theoretical perspectives of how young children learn to read and write. Evidence-based practices, strategies, and resources for supporting the emergence of literacy are explored and critiqued. Guidelines and principles for planning, assessing and monitoring literacy progress are supported by exploration of the English Curriculum and Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines. Cultural, linguistic and family diversity, and practices for building family and community partnerships are investigated, to support ongoing language and literacy learning for all children.

Prerequisite Rule

Y42 students must have passed LAN1265 or LAN1375

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LAN2265, LIT2110, LAN2266

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain the competencies underpinning the emergence of reading and writing, and contemporary theories of language and literacy learning and development.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge of a repertoire of evidence-based practices for teaching and learning literacy during the emergent phase, including phonological awareness and phonics.
  3. Select and critique literacy resources, including children’s literature, visual and multi-modal texts for different teaching and learning purposes.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge of assessment and planning for early literacy learning using the Early Years Learning Framework and English Curriculum documents.
  5. Describe the social and cultural factors that influence literacy learning.

Unit Content

  1. Theoretical perspectives of literacy learning and development, including factors that influence reading and writing progression.
  2. Evidence-based practices, including explicit teaching and play-based strategies, to support emergent literacy learners with emphasis on phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, graphophonics, decoding and orthographic mapping, print and text concepts, comprehension, oral language, vocabulary, motivation.
  3. Childrens literature, predictable and decodable texts, visual and multi-modal texts and resources for the inclusive classroom.
  4. Guidelines and principles for planning and assessing literacy using the English Curriculum and Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines.
  5. Family and community literacy practices and strategies for developing partnerships.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 212 x 1 hour lecture12 x 1 hour lecture12 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 212 x 2 hour tutorial12 x 2 hour tutorial12 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, workplace experiences and independent learning modules and activities, online learning

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkLanguage and Literacy Resource10%
AssignmentWritten assignment50%
ExaminationExam40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkLanguage and Literacy Resource10%
AssignmentWritten Assignment50%
ExaminationExam40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    English 2: Emergent Literacy 4-6 Years
  • Unit Code

    LAN2376
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Amelia Keziah RUSCOE

Description

This unit introduces students to literacy teaching in early childhood with a focus on the emergence and development of reading and writing. Students will examine different theoretical perspectives of how young children learn to read and write. Evidence-based practices, strategies, and resources for supporting the emergence of literacy are explored and critiqued. Guidelines and principles for planning, assessing and monitoring literacy progress are supported by exploration of the English Curriculum and Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines. Cultural, linguistic and family diversity, and practices for building family and community partnerships are investigated, to support ongoing language and literacy learning for all children.

Prerequisite Rule

Y42 students must have passed LAN1265 or LAN1375

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LAN2265, LIT2110, LAN2266

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain the competencies underpinning the emergence of reading and writing, and contemporary theories of language and literacy learning and development.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge of a repertoire of evidence-based practices for teaching and learning literacy during the emergent phase, including phonological awareness and phonics.
  3. Select and critique literacy resources, including children’s literature, visual and multi-modal texts for different teaching and learning purposes.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge of assessment and planning for early literacy learning using the Early Years Learning Framework and English Curriculum documents.
  5. Describe the social and cultural factors that influence literacy learning.

Unit Content

  1. Theoretical perspectives of literacy learning and development, including factors that influence reading and writing progression.
  2. Evidence-based practices, including explicit teaching and play-based strategies, to support emergent literacy learners with emphasis on phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, graphophonics, decoding and orthographic mapping, print and text concepts, comprehension, oral language, vocabulary, motivation.
  3. Childrens literature, predictable and decodable texts, visual and multi-modal texts and resources for the inclusive classroom.
  4. Guidelines and principles for planning and assessing literacy using the English Curriculum and Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines.
  5. Family and community literacy practices and strategies for developing partnerships.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 212 x 1 hour lecture12 x 1 hour lecture12 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 212 x 2 hour tutorial12 x 2 hour tutorial12 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, workplace experiences and independent learning modules and activities, online learning

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkLanguage and Literacy Resource10%
AssignmentWritten assignment50%
ExaminationExam40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkLanguage and Literacy Resource10%
AssignmentWritten Assignment50%
ExaminationExam40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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