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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Teaching Writing in the Primary Years
  • Unit Code

    LAN6270
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Anabela DE ABREU DOS SANTOS MALPIQUE

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 children’s 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's 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 via ECU’s LMS 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 School Progression Panel.

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 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. 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, 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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Teaching Writing in the Primary Years
  • Unit Code

    LAN6270
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Anabela DE ABREU DOS SANTOS MALPIQUE

Description

An evidence-based approach to teaching and learning writing will be the focus of the unit. Contemporary research drives the core understandings, methods and strategies required to effectively teach and assess writing in primary education. A range of evidence-based strategies and recommendations for teaching writing will be presented to support you in designing and implementing classroom practices that promote effective writing development in the primary years of schooling.

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. Theoretical perspectives and strategies for teaching and learning writing.
  2. Key features guiding effective writing instruction.
  3. Supporting the development of process writing skills: planning strategies.
  4. Supporting the development of process writing skills: revising strategies.
  5. Supporting the development of foundational skills: handwriting and keyboarding.
  6. Supporting the development of foundational skills: teaching grammar.
  7. Supporting the development of foundational skills: teaching spelling.
  8. Assessing writing: teacher-led and student-led approaches.

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 Offered8 x 4 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

WIL - Project

Students undertake an activity in collaboration or consultation with an industry partner but do not spend any time or only a very small amount of time  (e.g. 1-2 short visits) in an actual workplace.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectTwo-Week Thematic Program 50%
AssignmentLesson Experience Package 50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectTwo-Week Thematic Program 50%
AssignmentLesson Experience Package 50%

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 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. 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, 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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