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

    LAN6230
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • 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.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have successfully completed LAN6015.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Interpret major traditional and contemporary models of reading instruction and the theories, which inform them to design and justify reading instruction that addresses students’ individual and specific developmental needs.
  2. Use Knowledge about Language, as it applies in the Australian Curriculum: English to develop effective learning experiences for reading.
  3. Select and appraise appropriate strategies for reading and viewing complex printed and digital texts in content and disciplinary areas.
  4. Critically evaluate commercially produced resources and texts to support primary students’ reading development.
  5. Critically analyse contemporary issues in reading instruction and generate alternative solutions where appropriate.

Unit Content

  1. Traditional and contemporary models of reading instruction.
  2. Differentiated instruction.
  3. KAL for reading.
  4. Close reading and complex texts.
  5. Critical literacy.
  6. Reading and viewing in content and disciplinary areas.
  7. Reading and viewing digital texts.
  8. Contemporary issues in reading 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 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

    LAN6230
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • 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.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have successfully completed LAN6015.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Interpret major traditional and contemporary models of reading instruction and the theories, which inform them to design and justify reading instruction that addresses students’ individual and specific developmental needs.
  2. Use Knowledge about Language, as it applies in the Australian Curriculum: English to develop effective learning experiences for reading.
  3. Select and appraise appropriate strategies for reading and viewing complex printed and digital texts in content and disciplinary areas.
  4. Critically evaluate commercially produced resources and texts to support primary students’ reading development.
  5. Critically analyse contemporary issues in reading instruction and generate alternative solutions where appropriate.

Unit Content

  1. Traditional and contemporary models of reading instruction.
  2. Differentiated instruction.
  3. KAL for reading.
  4. Close reading and complex texts.
  5. Critical literacy.
  6. Reading and viewing in content and disciplinary areas.
  7. Reading and viewing digital texts.
  8. Contemporary issues in reading 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 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 Co. 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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