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

    Teaching Reading in the Primary Classroom
  • Unit Code

    LAN4131
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Janet HUNTER

Description

This unit will build on the knowledge, skills and understandings about reading instruction that have been developed in the core literacy units. There will be a particular focus on the further development of reading skills to support learning across the curriculum. There will be opportunities for examination of the research base for effective reading instruction, making connections between theory and practice, and critiquing classroom practice in light of research and theory.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply their understanding of traditional and contemporary reading models to plan reading instruction that addresses students’ individual and specific developmental needs.
  2. Demonstrate "Knowledge About Language" for reading as it applies in the Australian Curriculum: English.
  3. Select appropriate strategies for reading and viewing printed, digital and complex texts, including content and disciplinary areas.
  4. Critically evaluate commercially produced resources and texts to support primary students’ reading development.
  5. Critically discuss contemporary issues in reading instruction.

Unit Content

  1. Traditional and contemporary models of reading instruction.
  2. Differentiated instruction.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 18 x 4 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered8 x 4 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

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
Literature ReviewLiterature Review40%
JournalJournal60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Literature ReviewLiterature Review40%
JournalJournal60%

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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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

    Teaching Reading in the Primary Classroom
  • Unit Code

    LAN4131
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Janet HUNTER

Description

This unit will build on the knowledge, skills and understandings about reading instruction that have been developed in the core literacy units. There will be a particular focus on the further development of reading skills to support learning across the curriculum. There will be opportunities for examination of the research base for effective reading instruction, making connections between theory and practice, and critiquing classroom practice in light of research and theory.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply their understanding of traditional and contemporary reading models to plan reading instruction that addresses students’ individual and specific developmental needs.
  2. Demonstrate "Knowledge About Language" for reading as it applies in the Australian Curriculum: English.
  3. Select appropriate strategies for reading and viewing printed, digital and complex texts, including content and disciplinary areas.
  4. Critically evaluate commercially produced resources and texts to support primary students’ reading development.
  5. Critically discuss contemporary issues in reading instruction.

Unit Content

  1. Traditional and contemporary models of reading instruction.
  2. Differentiated instruction.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 18 x 4 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered8 x 4 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

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
Literature ReviewLiterature Review40%
JournalJournal60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Literature ReviewLiterature Review40%
JournalJournal60%

Core Reading(s)

  • Moats, L. C. (2020). Speech to Print : Language essentials for teachers (3rd ed., pp. xxiv, 314). Baltimore, Maryland: Paul H. Brookes Publishing C. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1120786788

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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