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

    Children's Literature in the Classroom
  • Unit Code

    LIT6260
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Helen Joanne ADAM

Description

This unit explores a wide variety of children's literature suitable for use in K-10 classrooms. Understandings of literature as a resource for literacy teaching are synthesised with understandings and application of the role of literature in the development of social, cultural and historic understandings. Students will critique the literature through a range of theoretical perspectives and research and apply strategies for classroom implementation.

Equivalent Rule

Equivalent to LIT4260

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critique and make independent judgments of a range of criteria for selection of texts.
  2. Critically analyse a range of children's literature.
  3. Research and apply established theories of the use of literature in developing cultural and historic knowledge and understandings.
  4. Interpret and transmit knowledge of a range of strategies for use with literature in K-10 classrooms.
  5. Synthesise knowledge on ways children's literature both reflects and reproduces social structures.

Unit Content

  1. A range of children's literature covering genres, authors, periods, age groups, cultures etc.
  2. Informed criteria for the selection of children's literature for classroom contexts.
  3. Theories of children's understanding of, and response to, children's literature.
  4. The relationship between children's literature and social contexts and cultures.

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 Offered8 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, seminars, tutorials

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
PortfolioPortfolio60%
AssignmentAssignment40%

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

    Children's Literature in the Classroom
  • Unit Code

    LIT6260
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Helen Joanne ADAM

Description

This unit explores a wide variety of children's literature suitable for use in K-10 classrooms. Understandings of literature as a resource for literacy teaching are synthesised with understandings and application of the role of literature in the development of social, cultural and historic understandings. Students will critique the literature through a range of theoretical perspectives and research and apply strategies for classroom implementation.

Equivalent Rule

Equivalent to LIT4260

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critique and make independent judgments of a range of criteria for selection of texts.
  2. Critically analyse a range of children's literature.
  3. Research and apply established theories of the use of literature in developing cultural and historic knowledge and understandings.
  4. Interpret and transmit knowledge of a range of strategies for use with literature in K-10 classrooms.
  5. Synthesise knowledge on ways children's literature both reflects and reproduces social structures.

Unit Content

  1. A range of children's literature covering genres, authors, periods, age groups, cultures etc.
  2. Informed criteria for the selection of children's literature for classroom contexts.
  3. Theories of children's understanding of, and response to, children's literature.
  4. The relationship between children's literature and social contexts and cultures.

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 Offered8 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, seminars, tutorials

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
PortfolioPortfolio60%
AssignmentAssignment40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioPortfolio60%
AssignmentAssignment40%

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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