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

    Early Literacy 5-8 Years
  • Unit Code

    LAN6130
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Amelia Keziah RUSCOE

Description

This unit focuses on pedagogical and content knowledge that informs the learning and teaching of early literacy in the junior-primary context. This unit utilises an inquiry-based approach in which students collect, analyse and use evidence to reflect on, plan and justify their approach to early literacy teaching and learning. Students critically analyse research based approaches to inform their thinking and practice in relation to assessing, planning and monitoring early literacy learning. A range of approaches, strategies and resources are critiqued in order to design an effective early literacy learning environment. The unit highlights the importance of creating an engaging and differentiated early literacy curriculum that takes account of the diversity of children's needs. Making connections between children's social, cultural and linguistic experiences and school-based learning experiences is emphasised.

Prerequisite Rule

I81 students must have completed LAN6120.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Expertly articulate the knowledge, understanding and skills that underpin early literacy learning.
  2. Critically analyse early literacy literature to inform and evaluate their professional practice.
  3. Critique and apply a range of appropriate teaching approaches, strategies and resources, including ICT to support the development of language and literacy.
  4. Design, evaluate and modify sequences of learning through careful monitoring and assessment of early literacy learning outcomes.
  5. Justify the use of observation, data collection and analysis to evaluate their own and their students' learning and teaching of early literacy.
  6. Communicate effectively using written and visual ICT skills.

Unit Content

  1. Inquiry based skills of observation, data collection, analysis and evaluation within professional learning contexts.
  2. Evidence-based research and literature informing understanding of the multi-faceted nature of literacy and how children to become literate.
  3. A range of pedagogical practices that relate to both explicit and implicit teaching and learning.
  4. Core content knowledge and concepts of early literacy in relation to language, including relevant outcomes from the EYLF and Western Australian Curriculum.
  5. Creating an effective early literacy environment.
  6. The relationship between family and community experiences and school-based literacy learning.

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 2Not Offered10 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

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

A combination of lectures, workshops, guest speakers, videos, practicum, required readings and group and individually assigned work are used to achieve the unit outcomes. Students are required to become independent learners, contributors in workshops and competent team members.

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
AssignmentAssignment60%
AssignmentPlanning documents40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment60%
AssignmentPlanning documents40%

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

    Early Literacy 5-8 Years
  • Unit Code

    LAN6130
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Amelia Keziah RUSCOE

Description

This unit focuses on pedagogical and content knowledge that informs the learning and teaching of early literacy in the junior-primary context. This unit utilises an inquiry-based approach in which students collect, analyse and use evidence to reflect on, plan and justify their approach to early literacy teaching and learning. Students critically analyse research based approaches to inform their thinking and practice in relation to assessing, planning and monitoring early literacy learning. A range of approaches, strategies and resources are critiqued in order to design an effective early literacy learning environment. The unit highlights the importance of creating an engaging and differentiated early literacy curriculum that takes account of the diversity of children's needs. Making connections between children's social, cultural and linguistic experiences and school-based learning experiences is emphasised.

Prerequisite Rule

I81 students must have completed LAN6120 and ECE6140

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Synthesise research and contemporary literature to inform evidence-based pedagogical approaches to literacy teaching and learning for children aged 5 – 8 years.
  2. Critique and apply a range of appropriate literacy teaching approaches, strategies and resources (including ICT), to inform differentiated planning for professional practice with children aged 5-8 years.
  3. Design targeted experiences and sequences of learning for literacy teaching of children aged 5-8 years.
  4. Apply diagnostic and formative assessment practices used for monitoring and analysing student learning, in order to critique the efficacy of literacy teaching to children aged 5-8 years.
  5. Apply pedagogical principles and practices to cultivate effective early literacy environments, and to enhance the relationship between family, community-based literacy practices and school-based literacy learning.

Unit Content

  1. Inquiry based skills of observation, data collection, analysis and evaluation within professional learning contexts.
  2. Evidence-based research and literature informing understanding of the multi-faceted nature of literacy and how children to become literate.
  3. A range of pedagogical practices that relate to both explicit and implicit teaching and learning.
  4. Core content knowledge and concepts of early literacy in relation to language, including relevant outcomes from the EYLF and Western Australian Curriculum.
  5. Creating an effective early literacy environment.
  6. The relationship between family and community experiences and school-based literacy learning.

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 2Not Offered10 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

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

A combination of lectures, workshops, guest speakers, videos, practicum, required readings and group and individually assigned work are used to achieve the unit outcomes. Students are required to become independent learners, contributors in workshops and competent team members.

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
AssignmentAssignment60%
AssignmentPlanning documents40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment60%
AssignmentPlanning documents40%

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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