School: Education

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  • Unit Title

    Literacy in Middle and Upper Primary School
  • Unit Code

    LAN6280
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Helen ADAM

Description

This unit examines language, literacy and literature in middle and upper primary school. Students will investigate relevant theories and teaching, learning and assessment models for effective literacy and language instruction. They will also focus on planning for children's diverse literacy needs across the curriculum within a framework that considers the relationships between teaching, learning, assessment and evaluation.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed LAN6240

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CUR6010

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Research and plan appropriate learning strategies that support children’s literacy development in the middle and upper years of primary school.
  2. Apply appropriate evidence-based metacognitive strategies to the composition, comprehension and critical analysis of texts when planning for the teaching of English in middle and upper primary school.
  3. Research and plan a range of integrated and differentiated literacy learning experiences for the middle and upper primary years.
  4. Construct effective English learning programs for children with diverse language needs with clear links between teaching, learning, assessment and evaluation in middle and upper primary.
  5. Critically reflect on the role of children’s literature in fostering literate practice in reading, writing, composition, comprehension and critical analysis of texts in middle and upper primary.

Unit Content

  1. Effective classroom teaching of literacy, including monitoring progress and investigating individual differences in language development.
  2. Planning, teaching, assessing and evaluating effective teaching of reading and comprehension including critical analysis of a range of texts and text types.
  3. Planning, teaching, assessing and evaluating effective teaching of writing.
  4. Effective methods of identifying and responding to students' current knowledge and strategies and keeping records of literacy development throughout the planning, teaching and assessment process.
  5. Visual and multimodal literacies.
  6. Children's literature, including strategies for response, interpretation and critique of a diverse range of texts.

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 110 x 1 hour lecture10 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 110 x 2 hour tutorial10 x 2 hour tutorialNot 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, presentations using ICT and written assignments..

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
AssignmentPlanning for the teaching of reading 40%
AssignmentPlanning for the teaching of writing60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentPlanning for the teaching of reading 40%
AssignmentPlanning for the teaching of writing60%

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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