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 3: Literacy Learning in Junior Primary
  • Unit Code

    LAN3356
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Karen NOCITI

Description

This unit focuses on the theoretical and pedagogical knowledge important to the teaching and learning of literacy in junior primary. Students will explore current research and approaches to teaching literacy that build children’s literacy competencies for early reading and writing. Students will examine practices for monitoring, assessing and planning for progressing literacy learning, and study evidence-based literacy teaching strategies that support development of early reading, writing and oral language.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed LAN1265 or LAN1375, and LAN2266 or LAN2376

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LAN3245, LAN3246

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply evidence-based principles and practices for literacy learning to inform planning using English curriculum documents.
  2. Articulate an understanding of the fundamental skills, knowledge and attitudes that underpin early reading, including core reading elements (phonological awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary, comprehension).
  3. Demonstrate a practical understanding of the assessment and monitoring of children’s literacy knowledge and competencies to inform planning.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge of a repertoire of evidence-based literacy practices and adapt teaching and learning for diverse literacy learners.
  5. Demonstrate knowledge of text types and language conventions, and the use of effective methods to support learning and development of writing.

Unit Content

  1. Planning literacy teaching and the literacy learning environment in junior primary using the English curriculum and evidence-based principles and practices.
  2. Skills, knowledge and understandings of learning to read: phonological awareness, phonics, orthographic mapping, oral language, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension and critical literacy.
  3. Tools and strategies to assess, monitor and document literacy learning and development.
  4. Supporting early readers and writers; evidence-based literacy practices, strategies, texts and resources, and differentiation for diverse literacy learners.
  5. Skills, knowledge and understandings of learning to write: conventions of written and digital texts including spelling, grammar, punctuation, handwriting/ keyboarding.

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 112 x 1 hour lecture12 x 1 hour lecture12 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 112 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, independent learning modules and activities, DVD/video and use of other multi-media resources, 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
PresentationPresentation10%
AssignmentLesson sequence50%
ExaminationExamination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationPresentation10%
AssignmentLesson sequence50%
ExaminationExamination40%

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 3: Literacy Learning in Junior Primary
  • Unit Code

    LAN3356
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Karen NOCITI

Description

This unit focuses on the theoretical and pedagogical knowledge important to the teaching and learning of literacy in junior primary. Students will explore current research and approaches to teaching literacy that build children’s literacy competencies for early reading and writing. Students will examine practices for monitoring, assessing and planning for progressing literacy learning, and study evidence-based literacy teaching strategies that support development of early reading, writing and oral language.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed LAN1265 or LAN1375, and LAN2266 or LAN2376

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LAN3245, LAN3246

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply evidence-based principles and practices for literacy learning to inform planning using English curriculum documents.
  2. Articulate an understanding of the fundamental skills, knowledge and attitudes that underpin early reading, including core reading elements (phonological awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary, comprehension).
  3. Demonstrate a practical understanding of the assessment and monitoring of children’s literacy knowledge and competencies to inform planning.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge of a repertoire of evidence-based literacy practices and adapt teaching and learning for diverse literacy learners.
  5. Demonstrate knowledge of text types and language conventions, and the use of effective methods to support learning and development of writing.

Unit Content

  1. Planning literacy teaching and the literacy learning environment in junior primary using the English curriculum and evidence-based principles and practices.
  2. Skills, knowledge and understandings of learning to read: phonological awareness, phonics, orthographic mapping, oral language, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension and critical literacy.
  3. Tools and strategies to assess, monitor and document literacy learning and development.
  4. Supporting early readers and writers; evidence-based literacy practices, strategies, texts and resources, and differentiation for diverse literacy learners.
  5. Skills, knowledge and understandings of learning to write: conventions of written and digital texts including spelling, grammar, punctuation, handwriting/ keyboarding.

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 112 x 1 hour lecture12 x 1 hour lecture12 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 112 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, independent learning modules and activities, DVD/video and use of other multi-media resources, 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
PresentationPresentation10%
AssignmentLesson sequence50%
ExaminationExamination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationPresentation10%
AssignmentLesson sequence50%
ExaminationExamination40%

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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