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 Writing in the Primary Years
  • Unit Code

    LAN6270
  • Year

    2019
  • 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 explores a balanced approach to literacy teaching with an emphasis on both theoretical and practical aspects of language development. It examines the theories, knowledge, skills, concepts and understandings significant for teaching listening and speaking, reading, writing and viewing in the primary school context. A range of resources, including childrens literature, will be investigated.

Equivalent Rule

Equivalent to LAN4270

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Integrate writing as both process and product.
  2. Develop Knowledge about Language (KAL) at the text, paragraph, sentence, clause, group and word levels and apply this to teaching written genres.
  3. Critically analyse the range of genres used in primary school.
  4. Diagnose students' needs in writing instruction and design appropriate responses.
  5. Critique and apply theories of writing instruction to classroom practice.
  6. Evaluate, apply 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. Assessment of student writing.
  6. Planning for writing instruction.
  7. Contemporary research and issues in 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 Offered 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, tutorials, workshops, videos

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
ProjectPlan for writing instruction 60%
AssignmentText analysis40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectPlan for writing instruction60%
AssignmentText analysis40%

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 Writing in the Primary Years
  • Unit Code

    LAN6270
  • Year

    2019
  • 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 explores a balanced approach to literacy teaching with an emphasis on both theoretical and practical aspects of language development. It examines the theories, knowledge, skills, concepts and understandings significant for teaching listening and speaking, reading, writing and viewing in the primary school context. A range of resources, including childrens literature, will be investigated.

Equivalent Rule

Equivalent to LAN4270

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Integrate writing as both process and product.
  2. Develop Knowledge about Language (KAL) at the text, paragraph, sentence, clause, group and word levels and apply this to teaching written genres.
  3. Critically analyse the range of genres used in primary school.
  4. Diagnose students' needs in writing instruction and design appropriate responses.
  5. Critique and apply theories of writing instruction to classroom practice.
  6. Evaluate, apply 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. Assessment of student writing.
  6. Planning for writing instruction.
  7. Contemporary research and issues in 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 Offered 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, tutorials, workshops, videos

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
ProjectPlan for writing instruction 60%
AssignmentText analysis40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectPlan for writing instruction60%
AssignmentText analysis40%

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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