Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S1E-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1E-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING

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Enrolment rules

Enrolment in initial teacher education courses B1404 or B1406.

Other learning activities

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Critically evaluate and synthesize theoretical knowledge, professional teaching strategies and related resources appropriate to supporting children to engage with literature.

2.

Apply your understandings of the role of children’s literature in the classroom to evaluate and design appropriate teaching sequences for fostering student reading development.

3.

Self-evaluate and set goals to improve your professional and personal reading capabilities.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

Your learning experiences in this unit will invite you to consider, conceptualise and make connections between - the notion of 'children's literature', visual and multimodal aspects, selecting quality texts and resources to help you, film for children, fostering literature engagement for different phases of schooling, literacies across the curriculum and intersections with literature, digital literacies, modelled text interactions and and concepts for planning, teaching and assessing interactions with text and text creation..