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 given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Teaching Writing in the Primary Classroom
  • Unit Code

    LAN4270
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Janet HUNTER

Description

This unit will build on and further develop students' understandings and skills in relation to writing instruction in the primary school classroom. The focus of the unit is on the further development of Knowledge About Language (KAL) to plan for and support student writing across the primary curriculum. There will also be a focus on making connections between pedagogical theory and classroom practice.

Prerequisite Rule

Must pass 1 unit from LAN2260, LAN3280

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate an understanding of writing as both process and product.
  2. Apply theories of writing instruction to classroom practice.
  3. Develop Knowledge about Language (KAL) at the text, paragraph, sentence, clause, group and word levels and apply this to teaching written genres.
  4. Demonstrate an understanding of the range of genres used in primary school and how to teach them.
  5. Use relevant technologies for writing instruction.

Unit Content

  1. Field, tenor and mode.
  2. Knowledge About Language (KAL).
  3. Writing across the curriculum; scope and sequence of genres.
  4. Pedagogical approaches for writing instruction.
  5. Plans for writing instruction.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

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

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures/presentations; video; practical experiences; school visits; in-class and on-line discussions.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentText analysis50%
PortfolioJournal50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentText analysis50%
PortfolioJournal50%

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Teaching Writing in the Primary Classroom
  • Unit Code

    LAN4270
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Janet HUNTER

Description

This unit will build on and further develop students' understandings and skills in relation to writing instruction in the primary school classroom. The focus of the unit is on the further development of Knowledge About Language (KAL) to plan for and support student writing across the primary curriculum. There will also be a focus on making connections between pedagogical theory and classroom practice.

Prerequisite Rule

Must pass 1 unit from LAN2260, LAN3280

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate an understanding of writing as both process and product.
  2. Apply theories of writing instruction to classroom practice.
  3. Develop Knowledge about Language (KAL) at the text, paragraph, sentence, clause, group and word levels and apply this to teaching written genres.
  4. Demonstrate an understanding of the range of genres used in primary school and how to teach them.
  5. Use relevant technologies for writing instruction.

Unit Content

  1. Field, tenor and mode.
  2. Knowledge About Language (KAL).
  3. Writing across the curriculum; scope and sequence of genres.
  4. Pedagogical approaches for writing instruction.
  5. Plans for writing instruction.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

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

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures/presentations; video; practical experiences; school visits; in-class and on-line discussions.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentText analysis50%
PortfolioJournal50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentText analysis50%
PortfolioJournal50%

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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